ppt design tips
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Design Tips for Design Tips for PowerPointPowerPointDesign Tips for Design Tips for PowerPointPowerPoint
• 1st –– Backgrounds – Templates• Best fonts• Bullets –– 6 is max• Content is king!• Words on a slide –– 25 or less• Images –– key
Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens
A picture isA picture isworth aworth a
thousand wordsthousand words
PowerPoint morevisualvisual
than written
PowerPoint rulesPowerPoint rulesPowerPoint rulesPowerPoint rules
Templates & color schemes
• Match the mood• Look professional
Pick a Pick a goodgood template templatePick a Pick a goodgood template template
• Don’t get the bluesblues• medium bluesmedium blues• navy blue OKnavy blue OK
BluesyBluesy templates – templates – yikes!yikes!BluesyBluesy templates – templates – yikes!yikes!
Bluediagonal
SoaringLock & key
Azure
Brighton
dark
Darkon
bright
GOOD GOOD GOOD
EVIL EVIL EVIL
Use high contrast colors
Why high-contrast?Why high-contrast?Why high-contrast?Why high-contrast?
• Your PC screen is hi-res
• everything looks great
• don’t trust it!• big displays “wash out” colors• always TESTTEST on final equipment• alter template’s defaults as needed
See for yourselfSee for yourselfSee for yourselfSee for yourself
• Which line is easier to read?• Which line is easier to read?
Which line is easier to read?Which line is easier to read?
Be font savvyBe font savvyBe font savvyBe font savvy
SerifSerif bad• Times New
Roman• New York• Courier
Sans serifSans serif good• Arial• Arial Black• Futura• Tahoma
Which is easier to read?Which is easier to read?Which is easier to read?Which is easier to read?
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bearnamed Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger anda law degree from Texas Tech. He wasallergic to chocolate.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bearnamed Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger anda law degree from Texas Tech. He wasallergic to chocolate.
Lessvisual
complexity
Strongerlines
Don’t waste bulletsDon’t waste bulletsDon’t waste bulletsDon’t waste bullets
• use• no• more• than• 66• in a list
Observe the limitObserve the limitObserve the limitObserve the limit
25
words per slidemax
Morelooksbusy
Avoid death by cheese…Avoid death by cheese…Avoid death by cheese…Avoid death by cheese…
• Weird sound effects• Most transitions• Flying text• Strange animations • Bad clip-art
Clip-art Hall of ShameClip-art Hall of ShameClip-art Hall of ShameClip-art Hall of Shame
Content is King!Content is King!Content is King!Content is King!
• Single phrases• Short lists• Questions for students• Quotes• Photographs• Video