4 Things Your Audience Hates about Your Slides

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things your audience hates about your slides Caroline Deng

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What Not to Do • Using all the colors.

• Awful Visuals • Bad quality images, kitschy stock photos, unaligned images • Killing your audience through bullets and essays • Presentations are visual and human representations of information.

Don’t add too many bullets, graphs, or charts.

• Slides are not magazines or documents. If you are going to read off your presentation word for word, kindly hand over your slides and sit down.

Slides that try to do too many things at • once.

What to Do • Use a color scheme.

• You only need 3-4 colors. The best combinations are either 2 accent colors and one neutral color, or one accent color and two neutral colors.

• Consistency between slides, such as the look, flow between slides, etc. is important.

Be mindful of spacing and alignment.

• • Make your slides purposeful by sticking with one idea per slide.

• Whitespace is a good thing.

That’s my lightning talk.

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Bored.

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1.Whitespace Stop tryingistoa create good a rainbow. thing.

Red Dark Gray Black White

2. Visual Vomit

2. Visual Vomit

2. Visual Vomit

2. Visual Vomit

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How does this make you feel?

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Idea 1 I’m here to jog your memory blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

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Whitespace can be a good thing.

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Let’s recap:

What NOT to do

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making rainbows

Let’s recap:

What NOT to do

visual vomit death by bullets brain dumps

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These sites are your friends: Free Fonts fontsquirrel.com Free Color Schemes design-seeds.com (Good) Free Stock Images pexels.com Free Icons flaticon.com

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Bad design gets in your way.

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Thank you!

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