Presentation Zen Design Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-12-05
Publisher(s): New Riders
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Summary

Creating and delivering a successful presentation today often means breaking through the noise and allowing your audience to focus on you and your message. You can have a great impact using simple design choices in your presentations but you just need to know where to start.

Here to guide you on your journey is best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds, whose design wisdom and advice will open your eyes and give you new ways to look at your slides. Filled with practical insights and plenty of examples, you’ll learn how to design effective presentations that contain text, data, color, images, and video. Once the design guidelines are established, you will benefit from Garr’s years of experience as a master presenter and learn how you can achieve an overall harmony and balance using the powerful tenet of simplicity. Not only will you discover how to design your slides for more professional-looking presentations, you’ll learn to communicate more clearly and will accomplish the goal of making a stronger, more lasting connection with your audience.
 

 

Author Biography

Garr Reynolds is the best-selling author of Presentation Zen, Presentation Zen Design, and The Naked Presenter, and a leading authority on presentation design and delivery. A sought-after speaker and consultant, his clients include many in the Fortune 500. A writer, designer, and musician, he is currently Associate Professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. Garr is a former corporate trainer for Sumitomo Electric and worked as the Manager for Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple, Inc. His popular blog can be found at  presentationzen.com.

 

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • Design Matters
  • COMPONENTS
  • Presenting with Type
  • Communicating with Color
  • Using Images to Tell Stories
  • Making an Impact with Video
  • Simplifying the Data
  • PRINCIPLES
  • Seeing and Using Space
  • Creating Purpose and Focus
  • Achieving Harmony
  • The Journey
  • Slide Samples
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Photo Credits
  • Index

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