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Design Tips for PowerPoint

Design Tips for PowerPoint. 1 st –– 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 is worth a thousand words. PowerPoint more visual than written.

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Design Tips for PowerPoint

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  1. Design Tips for PowerPoint • 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

  2. A picture isworth athousand words PowerPoint morevisual than written

  3. PowerPoint rules Templates & colorschemes

  4. Pick a good template • Match the mood • Look professional • Don’t get the blues • medium blues • navy blue OK

  5. Bluesy templates – yikes! Azure Bluediagonal Lock & key Soaring

  6. Use high contrast colors GOOD GOOD GOOD Brightondark Darkonbright EVIL EVIL EVIL

  7. Why high-contrast? • Your PC screen is hi-res • everything looks great • don’t trust it! • big displays “wash out” colors • always TEST on final equipment • alter template’s defaults as needed

  8. See 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?

  9. Serifbad Times New Roman New York Courier Sans serifgood Arial Arial Black Futura Tahoma Be font savvy

  10. Which is easier to read? Lessvisualcomplexity Strongerlines Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate. Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate.

  11. Don’t waste bullets • use • no • more • than • 6 • in a list

  12. Observe the limit 25 More looksbusy words per slidemax

  13. Weird sound effects Most transitions Flying text Strange animations Bad clip-art Avoid death by cheese…

  14. Clip-art Hall of Shame

  15. Single phrases Short lists Quotes Photographs Video Content is King!

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