Bob Young on Nostr: Do you make presentations with PowerPoint slides? Here are some pointers for ...

Do you make presentations with PowerPoint slides? Here are some pointers for communicating seamlessly. I’ll start with a story.

The Washington State IT Industry Forum sent me a post-conference feedback form. In the section for “Any Other Comments?” I wrote this:

“The PowerPoint slides used for the Keynote and the Fireside Chat needed to be prepared with a much larger font. The Marcus Pavilion is too big a space to use that small a font. The words on the slides occupied maybe 10% of the surface area. People don’t attend to see the pretty slide background – they want to see the words. Use the space on the slide to communicate, not decorate.”

Maybe you could use this advice, too. The information on the slide is more important than the appearance of the slide.

Big letters. High contrast colors.

Another thing to remember: you can’t project black. If your presentation is going to be in a room with all the lights on, the color of the screen you see when you first walk in the room, before the projector is turned on, is as black as it gets. During your presentation, the white screen only looks like it has black areas because the projected white light is so much brighter than the screen. The audience perceives black as an optical illusion, a trick of the mind. Therefore, if you make a slide with white letters on a black background, it will be harder to read than a slide that has black letters on a white background.

And don’t use black on red or red on black. People can only see that combination clearly in a small, darkened conference room where everyone is seated around the same table. In a large auditorium or conference hall, the attendees won’t be able to read it at all.

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