# Avoiding death by ppt #permanentnote ## Source - [[video - How to avoid death By PowerPoint]] ## Keywords (topics and howto) - [[topic - communicate effectively]] - [[how to be a better communicator]] ## Relevant notes - [[zt - communication techniques]] - this note is a specialised communication technique - [[zt - powerful meetings]] - lots of meetings are with ppts, so better take the time to learn those approaches - [[zt - show don't tell]] - if your work is about presenting a result, use the following technics to show how you work and deliver - [[zt - begin with the end in mind]] - any presentation needs a narrative and an end-goal to be powerful - [[zt - provide answers not only data]] - create a narrative and focus on answering the questions without needing to dig into data - [[zt - without emotion there is no long-term memory]] - to make it memorable make it emotional - [[zt - we see based on our narrative]] - so create a narrative - [[zt - reduce the amount of information coming in]] - reduce the amount of info on slides - one message per slide - Image + short bits of text - [[zt - everyone wants to feel secure]] so make your slides understandable so that people can feel secure that you are not trying to make fool of them - [[zt - it is all about people - humans]] ## Notes We focus on only four things with our eyes The number of slides is not important. The problem is the amount of stuff on a slide. ### Stuff moving - So make it move - This can be used with contrast, when you change the contrast between bullet points ### Big stuff - The most important part of your slide should be the biggest - Invert the font size of the template: - make the title small - and the content big ### Contrasty stuff - use dark background - highlight the one important things in bright white - put the rest in not-so-bright white ### Small number of info at the same time - Maximum 6 objects in a single slides. The brain will identify them without effort in 0.2seconds. Simply getting to 7 objects requires 1.2second of effot! - Avoid using sentences when speaking at the same time