Are you guilty of using the same slide deck, year after year for your teaching? Have you sat through presentations that are not only ugly, but confusing? Poorly designed slides can affect your audience’s attention as well as their ability to learn. Join Andrea Denton and Kimberley Barker as they outline the basics of learner-centered design, share examples of well-designed presentations, and introduce you to tools and resources which will make creating beautiful, well-organized PowerPoint presentations as easy as clicking your mouse.

1. Beyond Bullets
Creating presentations that engage
Kimberley Barker
Andrea Denton
September 2017

2. Beyond Bullets
Creating Presentations That Engage
Kimberley Barker
Andrea Denton
September 2017

3. Today we’ll learn…
• Basic tips for good presentation design
• Use of imagery and resources for images
• A few practices for data presentation
• Strategies for working with templates

4. Speaking of design
• Presentation design and interior design
• Rules
• Personal expression

5. Mid-Century Modern

6. English Cottage

7. Applying the Rules

8. Using Bullets Wisely
(aka conserve your ammo)

9. Use bullets as talking points
• Slides aren’t documents aka “slideuments”
• Slides shouldn’t be your teleprompter
Duarte, p. 7

10. The audience will either read your
slides or listen to you.
They will not do both.
So, ask yourself this: is it more
important that they listen, or more
effective if they read?
Duarte, p. 7

11. To keep bullets brief
• No sentences
• Two lines per bullet (?)
• Four bullets per slide (?)
• It’s OK to go on to the next slide!
• Think headlines
Duarte, p. 150; Kosslyn p.

12. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222

13. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222

14. Learning to Ride
training wheels
wobble
helmet
grass
go!
Duarte, p. 222

15. Kosslyn
Rudolph Rule

16. Rudolph in action
• A PowerPoint feature
• That’s actually helpful!
• Focuses attention
• On what and when
Kosslyn (Martians)
Use PowerPoint’s Animation feature, and Effect Options.
Choose After Animation to Hide or Dim

17. Another Rudolph
Introduction to Data Visualization: Chart Dos and Don'ts

18. Imagery & Color:
Considerations

19. Think critically about images
• Do they convey:
• concrete ideas
• relevant moods
• metaphors
• your message

20. Designing with images
• One large, striking image
• Patterned backgrounds- consider the font
• Contrast & transparency scales
• Please: no cheez

21. Imagery
• Include:
• Relevant
• Striking
• Mood-setting
• Avoid:
• Poor quality
• Confusing

22. Imagery: partnership
• Realism OR metaphor
• Avoid cheesy images
Duarte, p. 160

23. Imagery: partnership

24. Imagery: partnership

25. Imagery: partnership

26. Imagery: fonts as images
Fonts create different moods,
and also evoke different feelings.
Do you see what I mean?
How does this font make you
feel?
How about this one?

27. Fonts as fonts
• Safe fonts
• 40+ fonts commonly installed in PowerPoint
• Show correctly on any computer and version of PPT
• Some newer options
• Calibri “casual”
• Cambria “sturdy”
• Candara “curvy”
• Fonts designed for the screen
• Verdana (but don’t use for blocks of text)
• Georgia
http://presentitude.com/fonts/

28. Color
• Consider choosing a color palette
• Unifies
• Conveys mood
• Color interruption draws attention
Duarte, p. 7

29. Other considerations for
imagery & color
• Subject matter
• Purpose
• Audience

30. Important consideration:
audience
• Who are they?
• Why are they attending?
• What do they need?

31. Displaying your data

32. Data slides…
• Aren’t really about the data
• They are about the meaning of the data
Duarte, p. 64

33. Tip 1: avoid chart junk

34. http://www.slideshare.net/KayBaxter1/chart-junk-how-to-spot-it-and-get-rid-of-it

36. Tip 2: choose the right chart and
design

37. 42%
20%
14%
24%
Library Visits by Season
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall

38. 42%
20%
14%
24%
Winter Spring Summer Fall
Library Visits by Season

39. Tip 3: Space bars effectively
DATA VISUALIZATION 101: HOW TO DESIGN CHARTS AND GRAPHS

40. 42%
20%
14%
24%
Winter Spring Summer Fall
Library Visits by Season

41. Tip 4: Use color effectively
DATA VISUALIZATION 101: HOW TO DESIGN CHARTS AND GRAPHS

42. DATA VISUALIZATION 101: HOW TO DESIGN CHARTS AND GRAPHS

43. Pulling it all together…

44. 42%
visits occur during winter

45. Other considerations
• Online vs. in person
• Animation
• Templates

46. Working within a template
http://presentitude.com/10-ways-avoid-death-bullet-points/

47. • Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are the most effective
products for reducing the number of germs on the
hands of healthcare providers. Antiseptic soaps and
detergents are the next most effective and non-
antimicrobial soaps are the least effective.
• When hands are not visibly dirty, alcohol-based hand
sanitizers are the preferred method for cleaning your
hands in the healthcare setting.
• Soap and water are recommended for cleaning visibly
dirty hands.
Methods for hand hygiene

48. MOST
EFFECTIVE
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers
NEXT MOST
EFFECTIVE
Antiseptic soaps and detergents
LEAST
EFFECTIVE
Non-antimicrobial soaps
METHODS FOR HAND HYGIENE
When hands are not visibly dirty:

49. Soap and water are
recommended for
cleaning visibly dirty
hands

50. Soap and water are recommended
for cleaning visibly dirty hands.

51. No Dirt?
When hands are not
visibly dirty, alcohol-
based hand sanitizers
are the preferred
method for cleaning
your hands in the
healthcare setting

52. Put
product
on hands
and rub
hands
together
1
Cover all
surfaces
until
hands feel
dry
2
This
should
take
around 20
seconds
3
Techniques for using alcohol-based
hand sanitizer

53. In conclusion…
•Know your audience and its needs
•Maintain consistency; use inconsistency
for emphasis
•Edit, edit, edit

54. Kimberley Barker
Kimberley@virginia.edu
Andrea Denton
Andrea@virginia.edu
Ask Us

55. Resources
• Data Visualization 101: how to design charts and graphs
https://visage.co/content/data-visualization-101/
• Duarte, Nancy. Slide:ology : the art and science of creating great
presentations. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2008.
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u4824098
• Kosslyn SM, Kievit RA, Russell AG, Shephard JM. PowerPoint(®)
Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis. Front Psychol.
2012 Jul 17;3:230. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00230. eCollection 2012.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822402
• Kosslyn, SM. PowerPoint for Martians?
http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/powerpoint/
• Rowh, Mark. Power up your PowerPoint: seven research-backed tips for
effective presentations.
www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/01/presentationas.aspx
• 10 ways to avoid death by bullet points
http://presentitude.com/10-ways-avoid-death-bullet-points/

56. Additional Readings
• Duke University Libraries Introduction to Data
Visualization: Chart Dos and Don'ts

57. Credits
• Slide 51: Clean hands by Arlington County on Flickr
• Slide 52: Liquid soap by Nick Novell from the Noun
Project