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These slides are from several different presentations and will not be very meaningful without narration. Yet they are pretty good examples of combining text and images in slides that complement a live talk.

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Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. Dr. Koichi Kawana

Less than 33%

of U.S. adults are at a healthy weight.

OECD Factbook 2007

66% of Americans
are obese or overweight.
All adults 134 million (66%) Women 65 million (62%) Men 69 million (71%)

OECD Factbook 2007

Presentation Zen
How to plan, design and deliver presentations like a pro

Garr Reynolds

Ted Selker, a professor at MIT, reckons obsessive web browsing can cause attention spans to drop to as little as nine seconds equivalent to a goldfish.
BBC (2002)

Blogs are like sharks

You can play a

shoestring if youre sincere.
John Coltrane

 Master your instrument.

Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie-Parker

Its taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Dizzy-Gillespie

e f i l y m l l a e . m y a n l e p k o a t t t s o n It t a h w n r a e l to
e i p s e l l i G y z Diz

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated awesomely simple, thats creativity.
Charles Mingus

 You can play a shoestring if youre sincere.

John Coltrane

 Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie-Parker

Start strong

Make a connection

Keep the lights on

Keep it Short

Pecha Kucha

20 x 20 6:40

72%

of part time workers are

women

Choosing to have fewer children

1.29
Birth rate (2004)

Fertility rate in Japan?

1.29

Exposition Conict & Climax Resolution

Story

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Over 5,000 bikes sold in 2007

5035 3577 2099 4007

1500 500
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Average Age of eet (months)

200
162 months

150 Industry average 100

58 months

50 Singapore Airlines 0 1988

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Average Age of eet (months)

200
162 months

150 Industry average 100

58 months

50 Singapore Airlines 0 1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

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1997

99 million in 2003
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0 2000

2001

2002

2003

Mobile phone internet connectivity rate

Japan South Korea U.S.A. France U.K. China

94% 89% 34% 13% 13% 5%

2004: Japan Ministry of Communications

Mobile phone internet connectivity rate

Japan South Korea U.S.A. France U.K. China

94% 89% 34% 13% 13% 5%

2004:Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Camera exports: lm vs. digital

(Unit: 1000 cameras)

60,000 50,000 40,000

51,291

Film cameras
30,000 20,000 10,000 0 2000

21,418
Digital cameras

18,001

9,457

2001

2002

2003

2004

90

%
of the

freshwater in the world is

ice
Source: SCAR

90 Antarctica
%
of the ice in the world is in
Source: SCAR

80

Antarctic
Source: SCAR

is ice in the

of the worlds freshwater

Darth Vader Method

See my website:www.darthrules!.com

The Yoda Method

 . k e a c e n p e s l si n o s Do not e v o r p m i it s s e l n u

In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki

Hara hachi bu

Eat only until

80% full.

Eat only

until

80% full.

Eat only

until

80% full.

Eat only

until

80% full.

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Eat only until 80% full.

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After

My Stomach

80%

Then

Now

Molestie hendrerit eu vero

Eros duis dolore feugiat

Percentage of chart which looks like Pac-man

Looks like Pac-man Does not look like Pac-man

 Make it easy for people to talk about you.

Andy Sernovitz

Be interesting, or be invisible.
Andy Sernovitz

 Simplicity is about

subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

John Maeda

 More appears like less

simply moving it far, far away.

John Maeda

 Openness simplifies complexity.

John Maeda

 Use less, gain more.

John Maeda

In lieu of an order...or plan, you get a bunch of PowerPoint slidesThat is frustrating, because nobody wants to plan against PowerPoint slides.
Army Lt. General David McKiernan
Except from Thomas Ricks Fiasco

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!

Lee Iacocca

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n o i t a i t n re

Scientists: global warming is unequivocal

. e e t t i m m o c Design by

s e h c t i l g l Technica l e b a t i v e n i e . ar

Stock Photography

1. Slides the audience will see

Hand helds

Lap tops

Cell phones

2. Notes only you will see

3. Handout to be taken away

Slides

Notes

Handout

Alone time

Almost every PowerPoint presentation sucks rotten eggs.

The Naked Presenter

Garr Reynolds

PowerPoint Culture

Concrete tips & advice

3
Preparation Design Delivery

4
Q&A

A better way

On being naked

Q&A

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