PowerPoint

Follow these 5 point to improve your PowerPoint presentations:

• One message per page
• Working memory => redundency effect => if I speak and show the same context, nothing get remembered (1 + 1 = 0)
  • Move text down to the notes section
  • Use the slide to show short sweet text bits and an image to enhance the message I talk about
• Your attention goes to big objects, moving objects, high contrast objects, signaling objects (red, yellow, orange)
  • Use to your advantage.
  • The most important part of a page should be the biggest (e.g. make title small since it is often not the important part of a page)
• Contrast to control the focus
  • when new text appears on a page make it a strong contrast and weaken the contrast of existing text (e.g. if a new bullet point is blended in)
  • Use it for big tables by makeing single rows or column a better contrast (the one you want to focus on)
  • Use dark background (instead of white)
    • Helps to move the focus to the speaker / presenter
• No more then 7 objects per page

Following those tips usually lead to more slides => No Problem, Maybe don't show the numbers (10 / 80) since it is exhausting.

Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ’em, tell ’em, and then tell ’em what you’ve told ’em.