How to Create a Better Presentation?

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Your presentation style portrays who you are:

"A successful person who can control the presentation, know what to do yet humble, display interest and knowledge..."or

"An unsuccessful person who seems does not know what to do and still seeking direction..."

So, here are some tips to help you create a better presentation:

Slide Design

1. Use calming background (e.g. white/light blue).
2. Use a clear and consistent design, do not clutter the screen.
3. Use color coding to: Emphasis or Highlight a certain keyword. This can capture user's attention. However, do not overuse this feature! If everything are highlighted, there is nothing else stands out.
4. Use bold slide title (short phrase on top of your slides... It gives a strong/aggressive feeling/a sense of confidence...
5. In the title slide, write your title in Bold. Put author names and affiliations clearly. Do not forget to write acknowledgement if any. You may want to put your university/company logo in this title slide (you may also want to put a smaller logo on the corner of each slide - by updating the master slide).
6. Improve your skill of choosing mixture of color: good color for presentation: dark blue, brown, deep red. For your information, there are several web sites about 'colors', which colors are good for presentations, for web pages, the color mixture issues, etc...
7. Give hyper-link to connect related slides together, e.g. you want to relate experimental results slide to a slide 10 pages further back that explains your experimental methodology.

KISS: Keep It Short and Simple

1. Make your slides short and sweet, cut it short. Do not put too many texts on the slide...

2. If there are materials that you know going to be hard to explain but not really significant to the main flow of your presentation, CUT IT OFF!You need to have a smooth flow!


3. If you really need to have complex wordy slides, try to go faster there or highlight key points only! Audience has tendency to get frustrated when they see a complex slide... Whenever possible, avoid designing a complex slide!

4. Reduce number of words in your slides, talk more! If you cannot remember everything, put the points in the slides in such a way that they represents keywords to help triggering your brain on what to say for that slide!

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