EFFECTIVE VISUALS

Source: Lisa Johnson

Slide design for Students
4 AREAS TO THINK ABOUT

1. Content

2. Visual: images

3. Visual: color

4. Delivery
CONTENT
CONTENT

 What content to include?

 Plan
 Do an outline on paper or using post-its
 Put question on one slide and answer on a
different slide
 People learn more from combinations of
texts and visuals than just text alone
CONTENT

 Be able to be read in 3 seconds

or less

 30 point is the smallest font

 15 words per slide
 6 bullets per slide
CONTENT

 Remember…. One or two of three main ideas

per slide.
GOOD EXAMPLE OR BAD EXAMPLE?

 This page contains too many words for a presentation

slide. It is not written in point form, making it difficult
both for your audience to read and for you to present
each point. Although there are exactly the same number
of points on this slide as the previous slide, it looks much
more complicated. In short, your audience will spend
too much time trying to read this paragraph instead of
listening to you.
VISUALS
VISUALS: IMAGES

 People process images 60,000 faster than

text

 Remember, if using data, then pair an image

with the data
WHICH IMAGE IS BETTER?
A mother and her young daughter went to the beach
one sunny, summer day and the child spent hours
playing in the waves.
When the tide began to recede in the afternoon, the
woman noticed her daughter frantically returning
the many starfish that were becoming stranded on
the sand.
Absently, the mother called out, “You’ll never be able
to save them all. Don’t bother. It won’t make a
difference.”
Dale Carnegie
Picking up one, the small girl replied “To this one it will.”
 REMEMBER A PICTURE IS WORTH A
THOUSAND WORDS
           Visual Aids should aid you speech content NOT REPLACE

      Showing a video, rather then speaking is not acceptable visual aid

  
        Pictures and videos can enhance, and make the audience better understand
what is going on.
VISUAL: COLOR

 Putting part of the text in another color really highlights important parts.

 Putting part of the text in another color really highlights important parts.

 Putting part of the text in another color really highlights important parts.
 VISUAL: COLOR

 Check out
https://www.colorcombos.com/combotester.html
DELIVERY
DELIVERY

 Volume of voice
 Speed
 Use your voice purposely
 Quiet and loud
 Fast and slow

 Pause between slides

 Especially when presenting
complicated information

 Integrate visuals into presentation

NOW…. LET’S ANALYSIS THIS
PRESENTATION
 What are the strong points of design of this presentation?

 What are the weak points of design of this presentation?

EVALUATE THIS PRESENTATION BASED
ON…

1. Content

2. Visual: images

3. Visual: color

4. Delivery