Key Takeaways
- Do not talk about how hard you have worked on the presentation etc.
- Info deck vs. Presentation
- Docs take more time for the reader, and the reader remains in control.
- In the presentation, the presenter is in control and can emphasize where to focus.
- The presentation can be 50% complete and valuable, but the doc should be 100% complete always.
- Animation: Movement on a slide
- Transition: Movement between slide
- Keynote: Transition on the previous slide
- Opposite on PPT
- In a Technical presentation, we may need to go back and forth between slides. In that case, Transition is better than Animation.
- You should not make slides and think; the presentation should be the last part of the process.
- Three main takeaway points.
- Use the presenter display.
- Takahashi → Rapidly showing words one after another despite slowly revealing a sentence. This is to highlight a specific sentence.
- Cave Painting → Zoom in/out of a giant map like a mind map (Presi does this)
- Use fewer bullet points at a time → use multiple slides.
- Challenging to read → People try to process and have a higher chance to remember.
- The company logo and other housekeeping things are only on the first and last slide.
- Create a unique personalized, custom-made theme for your presentation.
- In the Flow chart, always use undirected arrows to avoid confusion.
- Stop trying to conserve slides.
- Design slides in 50% zoom to avoid ant font/small font.
- Grey out the fonts which you have completed.
- More static slides → more boring
- Try to make some changes every 30 seconds.
- Borderless white boxing to uncover a large picture one by one
- Creates more suspense
- Intentionally make the slides black by pressing the B key or adding a black slide so that all attention will be on you.
- Ask the obvious question first and answer it yourself.
- Having the same level as the audience invites more questions and conversations.
Never paste source code to a text box on a slide
- Use a screenshot
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