Muhammad Noer

The Best Presentation Books That Can Make You a World Class Presenter

July 26, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Books that will help them to be world-class presenters. Thank god they asked me this question! Had they asked me questions like “where can I find the best horror illustrators for hire?” or “Who is the perfect choice for an editor?”, then I might not be able to answer most of it and might most likely require a lot of research from my end to answer it. However, in regards to presentation books, I guess it should be a cakewalk.

After reading so many books, I confidently recommend 9 of the best books in presentation for your reference. Learn the book and practice the lessons from these best books. Undoubtedly, your presentation skills will improve and you will be a remarkable presenter that will impress your audience.

1. The Non Designer’s Presentation Book – Robin Williams

The main reason why I begin with Robin Williams’ book is because of its simplicity. In this book, Robin explains the basic principles of a good design and how to apply it on creating good slides.

You don’t have to be a designer to be able to design attractive and communicative slides.

In The Non – Designer’s Presentation Book – Principles for Effective Presentation Design, Robin explain CRAP approach (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity). This concept is very powerful. You can easily remember and implement it directly when creating your presentation slides.

If you are interested in learning more, I also suggest you to read “The Non Designer’s Design Book – Design and Topographic Principles for the Visual Novice“. This is Robin’s most famous and the best book, which explains basic principle in design for those who are not designers like you and me. Additionally, you can learn the typography aspects such as choosing the right font, size and using colors.

Get The Non- Designer’s Presentation Book at Amazon.Com

2. Slideology – Nancy Duarte

If you have watched The Inconvenient Truth, you must certainly agree that Al Gore has delivered a remarkable presentation. In this film, Al Gore was able to bring up an issue and make it very important.

The team who designed presentation for Al Gore was Nancy Duarte, the writer of Slideology –The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentation

This book summarizes almost the entire Nancy’s experiences as a communication consultant at Duarte Design. Interestingly, Nancy has been able to incorporate the corporate presentation approach which is mostly boring with the aesthetical design that makes the message comprehensible and visually beautiful.

Nancy teaches us how to focus on ideas rather than on slides. This book also guides you how to create diagram and present data in an interesting way. You will learn how to present a complex business issue and make it visually simple and understandable.

Get The Slideology at Amazon.com

3. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo

Steve Jobs is one of my favorite presenters. He is the founder of Apple and also known as the great inventor in the 21^st century for many phenomenal products such as iPod, iPhone and iPad that people use every day.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience shows you the secrets behind Job’s great presentation.

Carmine Gallo conscientiously analyses all presentations delivered by Steve Jobs during his entire career. He writes down the techniques used by this great presenter. The way how Jobs creates headline, how he divides story into three sections, incorporates the demonstration into presentation, and generates momentum to amaze the audience.

I strongly recommended this book, particularly if you hold a high position in the company and you wish to deliver an inspirational corporate presentation like Jobs.

Get The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs at Amazon.com

4. Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds

I shall pay respect to Garr Reynolds who has influenced my way of thinking on presentation. He teaches us how to present slides from different angle, rather than the ordinary way. He also persistently goes against the traditional point of view about slides.

Garr who owns the Presentation Zen Blog, explains the philosophy and the culture principles practiced in Japan and Zen, particularly on design approach.

In his book of Presentation Zen- Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, Garr points out the importance of simplicity, visual strength and harmony.

Frankly, I might say that this book is slightly difficult compare to the Robin Williams’ one which is simple and to the point. But, if you want to grasp the aesthetical art and to learn how to make presentation slides like the world class designer, then I suggest reading this book.

You can learn more from Presentation Zen Design – Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations which is also written by Garr Reynolds who resides in Japan.

Get Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) at Amazon.com

5. Presentation Secrets – Alexei Kapterev

Presentation Secrets – Do What You Never Thought Possible with Your Presentation by Alexei Kapterev is one of my favorite books. This book explains completely about presentation from many approaches, starts from the story, slides and the how to convey it.

Alexei is not a designer such as several writers mentioned previously. He even started to focus on presentation in the last few years. However, the book he has written describes how to create and to convey a good presentation.

In this book he tells his recent and previous experiences. Moreover, Alexei is known as the writer of the famous “Death by PowerPoint” which also talks about presentation. He is now working as a consultant and teaching visual communication in Graduate School of Business Administration, at Moscow State University.

Get the Presentation Secrets at Amazon.com

6. Beyond Bullet Points – Cliff Atkinson

Could you make a presentation without using boring bullet points? Hence, this book will prove that you can do it.

One of the strength of this book is it explain presentation structure as unity. You can also separate your slides if you intend to convey your presentation completely or only as a summary.

In Beyond Bullet Points – Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate and Inspire, Cliff teaches us the simple way to observe flow of presentation from the audience point of view. He encourages you to create story based on the audience’s perception. Then move the audience from current condition to the better one.

Cliff is also a speaker and a consultant who has been helping many prominent lawyers and Fortune 500 companies. He created a presentation design which had successfully convinced the Juries in a court and won the file suit that was worth of $ 253 million, in 2005.

Get the Beyond Bullet Points Book at Amazon.com

7. Sticky Presentation – Ang Tian Teck

This book explains how to create an effective presentation design, so that, it will give lasting impressionfor the audience. Ang Tian Tek is a Singaporean who becomes a consultant and trainer for many companies in this city country.

Sticky Presentation – A Different Approach to Presentation Design and Delivery will teach you the concept and the “sticky” approach. It shows you how to convey ideas that could stick and get into the mind of your audience.

This book is unique, because it does not follow the usual format. Reading this book feels like watching a set of slides and practical tips presented in interesting designs.

Get the Sticky Presentation at Kinokuniya Singapore

8. The Visual Slide Revolution – Dave Paradi

Those who use presentation to sell ideas, products or services to decision makers, I highly recommend Dave Paradi’s book The Visual Slide Revolution – Transforming Overload Text Slides Into Persuasive Presentations. Dave Paradi is a professional and a speaker who has been invited frequently by Fortune 500 companies. This book would be useful for businessperson who deals everyday with data and numbers or for a manager who makes a presentation every week. This book tells you how to design powerful slides using a clear and simple technique. Most of the samples are coming from the corporate world.

Perhaps the slides used as examples are not as attractive as those in other books. But don’t make a wrong conclusion; you will learn so many useful things from this book. For instance, you will learn how to show data changes visually, how to explain complex process in a simple way, and how to choose the right diagram to explain complicated data.

Get The Visual Slide Revolution at Amazon.com

9. Presentasi Memukau (Amazing Presentation) – Muhammad Noer

Not many good books about presentation available in Indonesian language. You could find books that show you how to make slide, but it focus merely on the technical aspect of using PowerPoint. There are other books that teach you technically how to speak in public, but they don’t explain how to make use of visual communication in a presentation when you are in front of the audience.

To overcome this issue, I wrote a book which contains thorough explanation about presentation. This book had been prepared after having accomplished necessary matters. Such as doing research based on valuable resources relating to presentation subject, watching the video of remarkable presentations by great presenters and delivering presentations including the one at the TEDx Jakarta. Hence, I specially present this book for all the loyal visitors of Presentasi.net.

Presentasi Memukau (Amazing Presentation) – Bagaimana Menciptakan Presentasi Luar Biasa (How to Create a Remarkable Presentation) explains comprehensively the aspects that you should acknowledge in order to deliver a great presentation.

You can freely download this book, but other books will require payment. This intention is for good cause, which aims to educate anyone. Hopefully, this book will be a valuable inspiration for presenters in Indonesia to be able to deliver a world class presentation. We are in the process of translating this book into English so you can also enjoy it.

Those are the selected books about presentation that I recommend. Collect and read those best books in presentation. You will learn many things to be a capable presenter who could make a world class design and perform like presenters at TED.

6 Principles to Create A Good Slide for Presentation

July 18, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

A good presentation slides will help you in delivering a good presentation. Before opening PowerPoint software and creating your slide, you need to understand what the role of a slide in a presentation is.

In this article, you will learn slide as visual aid and how it complements your role as a presenter. You will also learn key principles to make slide for presentation.

Slide and Visual Aid

Basically, slide has a function to support your presentation. Slide is not the presentation itself. The role of slide as presentation aid is different than your role as a presenter. Slide is necessary to explain something which is difficult to describe it only with words. We know that an image could represent a thousand words. A good slide should be able to summarize the message to make the audience understand it easily. Additionally, using a slide, you can present a trend, comparison, and highlight key points that is more difficult to be explained by words.

Don’t forget, slide is not the only visual aid for presentation. There are many other visual aids that you can use, such as flipchart, video, sample of product, and other things. Don’t just stick to slide when it comes to visual aid in your presentation.

Basic Principles to Create a Good Slide

There are several basic principles that should be carried out to create a good slide for PowerPoint presentation. If you follow these principles, your slide will function as a tool to aid your presentation. Your slide will not be the problem that could divert the audience’s attention from the presentation itself.

Following are the principles:

1. Simple

The best slide is usually simple, easy, and to the point. Your audience is busy people. They have so many things to do. They have so many concerns. Help them with simple and to do point PowerPoint slide.

This kind of slide will offer you flexibility in giving explanation. The more complicated a slide, more time would be needed for the audience to understand. In some cases, you will face difficulty in explaining the slide.

2. Necessary or Unnecessary

Before you make any slide for your presentation, ask yourself, “Is it necessary?”

Think why you need the slide before actually creating it.

Ask yourself, “Do I need 10 slides or just 5 slides should be enough?”

“Could I combine several slides into one?”

“Could I replace the slide with a brief explanation to the audience?”

Just asking yourself with these questions will help you creating an effective and efficient slide. A slide that is necessary and not just nice to have.

3. Background and Readable Font

Today, you have a choice among thousands of backgrounds and fonts available. You will be tempted to use and experiment with so many choices.

Any combination should be okay as long as you create enough contrast between background and font. If you choose dark background, make sure to use light font color so it will be easier to read and vice versa.

Preferably, choose maximum 2 fonts for one slide. You can also use these 2 fonts for the entire presentation.

Why? Because too many fonts will make your audience’s eyes tired. Your audience will get confused because they cannot see consistency and connection between slides. A good font for presentation is the one that does not have too many decorations. It should be easy to read such as: Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet. You can use decorative font for title or supporting text, but not for the body text.

4. Avoid Bullet, Use Less of It

When possible, avoid bullet point. It is the most boring slide that makes people feel asleep.

But if you must use it, make sure they are less than 7 bullets in a slide.

Too many bullets will make the font getting smaller and unreadable. No need to create a slide if your audience cannot read it. Use slide as a summary of your thought and ideas, not as your speaking notes.

If you have more than 7 items to show, try to make it less and concise. Remember, maximum 7 lines. Less is always better.

5. Image, graphic and diagram

Slide is visual aid to help you explain complex ideas in an easy way. Therefore, use image, graphic, chart or diagram to show your ideas visually. A good slide can summarize complex things into simple visualization which is not easy to be explained orally. Therefore, take the advantage of using a good image, graphic and diagram.

Choose the right image to support your thought. The right image could represent a thousand words. On the other hand, wrong image can create confusion. Image should be relevant with the content and able to help the audience understand your explanation. On the contrary, irrelevant image will distract audience’s attention as they have difficulty to associate the displayed image with the content of your presentation.

In term of graphics or charts, there are numerous graphics that you can use to support your presentation such as bar, pie chart, line, or combination of those. You have to pick the right graphic to have a great influence on the audience so they will understand easily the content of your presentation.

For instance, bar chart is the most common and suitable graphic to explain growth for a certain time period. Pie chart is best used to show proportion comparison. The round shape of cake makes the audience easy to associate the portion of cake to make comparison. Line chart is relevant to show a trend within longer period of time. Understand what you want to communicate first then select the best chart for it.

Diagram is very useful to explain the steps of a process and the relationship between them. Therefore, the audience will understand effortlessly the most difficult part of the presentation.

6. Use Color Combination with Good Contrast

Choose several colors for your slides. Use colors that have enough contrast especially between the background and the content. Use colors in a consistent way and repeat it in your slide decks. Do not use different colors in every slide, because it will create distraction to your audience as well as it looks unprofessional.

Those are the 6 principles that you should know in making a great presentation slide.

Final Thoughts

You might also wonder about how to use template which has various colors and styles? After all, you can use template that follows the principles above. Try to select template without complex background that could take more space and attention in your presentation. This is important, because the template background will show-up in every presentation slide from the beginning to the end.

What about animation, transition’s effect between slides, and the use of sound? You must pay attention carefully on these matters. Regarding to animation, motion image or image that changes frequently could distract the audience’s attention easily. So, you should ask yourself whether it is necessary or not for your presentation. In certain condition animation could be useful to explain a complicated technique process in a way that the motion image will show how the process works. Other than that, I suggest not to use animation.

Furthermore, you should pay attention on the transition between slides and how the text would appear on the screen. In this regard, I am more conservative and rather choose the simple transition such as Appear or Fade in PowerPoint. The reason is, this kind of transition does not cause too much of distraction. Besides, if you use it appropriately it will add strength to your presentation. For example, if you explain a diagram which presents stages and you want the audience to see each stage, then you should use this kind of transition. Avoid using transition that makes the text spinning around or moving sideways from left to right, the letter appears one by one along with the sound of gunfire and other exaggerating accessories.

Finally, I don’t recommend to use sound, unless, you are showing a video in the presentation. Many presentations look very unprofessional and might disturb the audience’s attention when every paragraph appears with the sound of gunfire, hand clapping, or camera shoot. Be aware that you are delivering a presentation not presenting a special effect of a film.

Hence, those are the guidance that you can use as reference to create presentation slide. Hopefully this guidance will help you to prepare the slide very well and effectively. After all, slide is only a tool which aimed to support the success of a presentation.

If you have any comment about this, please share your point of view.

How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint

July 8, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Death by PowerPoint is a term used to describe a situation caused by a boring and unbearable presentation. As a result, the presentation becomes meaningless and fails to keep the audience’s attention.

This term was first introduced by Angela R. Garber in the article for Small Business Computing. It was addressed to criticize a boring and tiring situation due to laborious information which includes power point in the presentation.

So, how to lighten-up your presentation and grab the attention of your audience?

Look closely to the presentation made by Alexei Kapterev and his explanation.

Death by PowerPoint from Alexei Kapterev

Death by PowerPoint from Alexei Kapterev

According to Alexei Kapterev there are four things that we should pay attention in order to avoid having a boring presentation, such as:

Significance
Structure
Simplicity
Rehearsal

Let’s take a look each of them.

1. Significance

By the dictionary, significance is a quality of something worth to be recognized or something signified.

What is the real reason we give a presentation? Is it to pass-on the information? Is it because of the Boss’ instruction? Or you really want to give something meaningful.

To make a presentation worthy, we have to look deeper into the issue of the topic. Understand why the topic matters to us and why it is important to explain it in a presentation.

As a person who makes the presentation, you will wish to convey a meaningful presentation. At the same time you are also building a strong passion.

What is passion? Passion is emotion, desire and enthusiasm to be able to offer the best. You would like to invite your audience to care and to understand about the problem you convey.

Passion will be reflected through the slides, words and body language you presented.

Be passionate, so that your audience will not die of boredom.

2. Structure

A good presentation will not only use impressive and inspirational slides but it also has a strong structure.

How to make a good structure?

According to Alexei, you could make any structure as long as it’s:

Convincing
Memorable
Scalable

You can use the structure of Problem – Pathway – Solution

In this structure, you will first introduce the problem. Then give explanations to show the way to solve the Problem.

Another form of structure is Problem – Solution – Reasoning

Firstly, introduce the problem, and show the solution. Then explain why the solution you have offered is the best one.

Give three to four points only, because more than that would be difficult for the audience to remember.

More or less, the form will look like this:

This way you could adjust your presentation according to the length of time. You could explain your entire presentation if you have 45 minutes.

With 15 minutes, you could briefly explain every argument. But if you only have 5 minutes, you could still able to explain the essential points of the argument without going into details. This is what we call Scalable.

Once again, whichever structure you choose make sure the structure is convincing, memorable and scalable.

3. Simplicity

A presenter’s job is also to simplify anything that is complicated.

Why?

Your audience faces enough problems every day, whether at home or at workplace. As a good presenter you would not wish to add any difficulty to your audience. Hence, to capture your audience’s attention make your presentation simple and easy to understand.

Use power point to visualize your ideas, give important points and convince your audience.

Don’t write down all the information, because your presentation is not a document.

Here are examples of complicated slides:

And compare to these following slides which are simple but captivating:

4. Rehearsal

Rehearsal is important to make your presentation fascinating. Steve Jobs was one of the best presenters who rehearsed many times before delivering his presentation.

Through practices and good rehearsals, you could get feedback from other people. Then, improve certain parts of your presentation to make it more interesting and to address the problem clearly.

You could choose the best words for the opening, the best explanation and the closing part that could impress your audience.

This is the summary that you have to remember to make a presentation:

These are the four suggestions from Alexei Kapterev to avoid “death by power point”. Create a presentation with key points or power-point, but not a presentation full of bullet-point.

If you want to get inspiration to make an awesome presentation, you should have inspirational slides.

Translated by: Dewi Suryodipuro

Reference:

Death by Powerpoint – Slideshare by Alexei Kapterev

How to Make a Good and Convincing Presentation?

July 4, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Are you a student who often has to give presentations in front of your teacher or professor? Or an employee who often has to give presentations in front of your clients or your boss?

Well, whoever you are, I am sure you have experienced nervous or anxious when you have to give a presentation or speaking in front of the public.

A public opinion poll about fear reveals that fear of death stand at the second place of the list after the fear of public speaking that stand at the first place. A result that shows us about just how many people who afraid to speak in front of the public.

Actually, giving a presentation or speaking in front of a public is not as scary as many people imagine. As long as you prepare the presentation properly and willing to practice sufficiently, you will be a able to make a good, convincing and memorable presentation.

Here are some tips that you can use to make a convincing presentation. These tips are based on my experience in giving presentations and public speaking, as well as some presentations training I have attended.

1. Set the goal of your presentation

Every presentation must have a goal. You present a product to make your client buy it. You present business plan proposal to get support and approval from your boss. You explain a topic that you have mastered to make people understand it.

In general, the purpose of presentation is one of these two things: giving information (informative) or persuade the audience to do something (to persuasive).

Goal setting is important because it will determine the way you prepare and deliver the presentation. Presentation to inform will be different than presentation to convince.

An informative presentation need to be designed as informative as possible. The purpose is to help your audience who doesn’t know the topic at all before they attend your presentation become well informed after leaving your presentation.

A persuasive presentation should be able to touch the emotional side of the audience so they willing to change their attitudes as well as encourage them to do something such as: approve your idea, buy your product, or supporting what you’ve done or what you will do.

2. Know your audience

If you don’t know it you won’t love it, a saying that also applied in presentation. Take your time to find out who will come to your presentation. What is their position in the organization, what they expect from your presentation, what is their education background, what is their learning style, and so on.

This is important because basically a presentation is delivering some materials to an audience. Even if you think you have done the best, you can’t expect that the audience that hears you always have the same thought.

By identifying the audience you will be able to decide your presentation approach. Maybe one of your audiences is an important person in the organization who likes graphics and figures. Showing good graphics along with explanations for the numerical data will be a plus. Maybe your prospective audience is a visual learner. She will be pleased with images, diagrams and concrete examples. Then you can decide to add more images into your slides.

In another occasion you might have audience with kinesthetic learning style. Demonstrating something in front of people like this will give a stronger impact. If necessary, you can bring the product or anything you can use as a model during the presentation.

And if you find your audience consists of people with a mixture of learning style, just combine all approach proportionately.

3. Make a presentation framework

In general, a presentation consists of three parts; opening, content, and closing.

Opening part is a place where you can give an early description of the presentation topic and goal. Content is a part where you can explain your materials structure, starting with the background, problems, and solution you want to offer. And the closing part consist of your summary for the topic and a call for action to the audience, which could be buying your product, accepting your idea, or a better understanding about your topic.

As the first step in making the framework, you can create a mind map to describe the main ideas or keywords of anything you will explain in your presentation. Mind mapping will make you easier to see the whole description of your presentation and the main points that should be delivered so that the audience will completely understand and accept it.

In your mind map be sure to pay a lot more attention to the opening and closing part. These two parts is more important than the other, because it will be remembered most by the audience as well as the opportunity for you to get their attention. But it doesn’t mean that the other part is not important.

Some methods you can use in the opening part are asking question, giving a quote, statement, story, or humor. If you think it is necessary, you can memorize it. A good opening that flowing easily will build-up your self-confidence to go to next step of your presentation.

Closing part is a place where you summarize the substance of the whole presentation. This part is very important because it is your chance to give something that will always be remembered by the audience after they leave the room. Be sure to prepare it well.

4. Prepare presentation slides and other visual aids.

It is hardly to find a presentation without any PowerPoint slides or similar programs these days. To prepare a good slide there is only one principle, “Keep It Simple”. Why? Your audience wants to hear about a complicated things in a simple way. Not the other way around.

Please note that the slide presentation is a visual aid, not the presentation itself. “You are the presenter, not the slide.” It is you that will determine attractiveness of your presentation. As long as the visual aids are in line with the messages you give verbally, you can use it. But if this aid makes the audience more confused instead, don’t use it.

A principle you need to know in preparing slides is; display only the main and significant point. Never make a slide that display detailed information and put in everything you would say. This will make your audience get bored easily. They will prefer to read the slides and no need to hear your explanation anymore. Your presentation will miss the goal.

Here are some tips to make an effective slide:

Don’t use too much text on a slide
Use images, diagrams and tables to explain a concept, data and facts
Don’t make a complex design because it will be harder to understand in a short time and tends to make the audience weary and not focus on what you are saying.

I will explain about how to make an effective slide specifically in this posting.
Remember that slide is not the only aids in a presentation, there are many other tools that you can use such as: flipchart, product samples, videos, and even your own body language. If you decide to use it, just prepare it carefully.

5. Practice

Practice make perfect. This also apply in preparing an important presentation. The more you practice the more skilled you are. It will be a good idea to invite your friends to listen to your presentation. Ask them to give comment to your materials, your presentation style and get their feedback on which part still need improvement.

Practice will also help you to know about how well you’ve prepared and mastered the materials. Think about your audience stand point while practicing: do they know the materials, what is their concern to this presentation, what questions they might ask, and what they expect from the presentation. By answering these questions you will be well prepared.

6. Relax

Relax and enjoy your presentation. Most people get anxious once they start talking in front of people. It could happen to you, too. But you don’t have to be panic. Some level of nervous is normal. In fact, even a great public speaker also experiences this feeling. Use the nervous energy to help you focus on yourself and what you have to say in the presentation.

You have to relax to calm down yourself. In this condition, it will be easier to recall anything you’ve memorized and practice. And it will help you to deliver a good and convincing presentation.

A simple tips to reduce nervousness and get relax is close your eyes, take a deep breath, and releases it slowly. Do this several times, and you will feel fresher and more relax.

That’s the tips to prepare a convincing presentation. In next posting, I will explain about how to deliver the presentation, started from the opening (using humor, quotes, or questions as the opening part of presentation), content, and closing.

Do you have other tips in making a good presentation?

Don’t be shy. Please share your thought in the comment area.

Download The World Best PowerPoint Presentation

April 18, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Do you know the difference between a mediocre presentation and an extra-ordinary one?

Mediocre presentation usually filled up with text everywhere. It uses bullet point as a standard template and often boring.

Whereas, an extra-ordinary presentation has the capability to catch the audience attention through pictuces that communicate, text that make you think, and has a strong message.

To see how the best PowerPoint presentation looks like, I have chosen 3 presentations, which considered as “The Best Presentation” in Slideshare.net

Enjoy and download below presentations for your reference.

1. SMOKE – The Convenient Truth

This presentation has won the 2010 Best Presentation Award in Slideshare.

This presentation talks about big impact of smoking and facts behind the cigarette fumes. It unveils the topic with interesting picture. The consistency of using simple colours palette creates harmonious presentation from the beginning to the end.

This world-class presentation contains limited text. By using the right picture and appropriate text, this presentation has the ability to connect directly to the audience.

SMOKE – The Convenient Truth [1st place Worlds Best Presentation Contest] – EP

View more presentations from Empowered Presentations, Presentation Design Firm – Honolulu, HI

Download This Presentation (38 MB)

It’s evident to admit that such presentation has great design, thus makes its creator as world class designer. From this presentation, you can learn how to present your ideas using a story, and describe it through pictures.

Besides, you could also learn the important principles in designing a presentation, such as contrast, harmony, repetition, alignment and focus.

2. American Healthcare – A4 Napkins Explanation

This presentation won the 2009 Best Presentation Award in Slideshare.

An interesting presentation doesn’t always use high-resolution picture or well-designed text. You can create a great presentation using simple sketch or illustration.

As you can see below, this presentation brilliantly uses simple illustration to describe a very complex issue. This presentation explains the relationship between healthcare provider, insurance company and people who use both services.

Healthcare Napkins All

View more presentations from Dan Roam

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3. THIRST

This presentation won the 2008 Best Presentation Award in Slideshare.

The presentation explains how the world faces the thirst of clean water. The strength of this presentation is laid on the combination of using the right pictures and simple keywords. Therefore, this presentation is able to tell a story, which emphasizes the importance of water subsistence for human being and how our world is now facing the crisis of clean water.

From this presentation you could learn how to combine pictures with the right keywords to explain an idea.

THIRST

View more presentations from Jeff Brenman

Download This Presentation (8 MB)

What do you think?

What make the presentations above so specials?

What have you learnt from the best PowerPoint presentation?