Using bullet points...
Reading out endless slides with endless lists of incoherent bullet points is the ultimate disaster similar Related to this, the bullet points start to become complicated sentences / stories in their presentation. But bullet points can happen to the best of us, and I admit that I am still designing Bullet-points-powerpoint.png . When to use bullet points. Bullet points are a list or a ranking of some sort. When a product has Using bullet points... points are not roughly the same length, bullet 2 is 3 sentences, bullet 5 is 2 words, the bullets are not
The story in the bullets
points next to each box: some detail about growth, size, remarks about a competitor, some new Avoid bullet points in PowerPoint.png We have seen them all: a slide that describes four market segments. 4 boxes with a couple of bullet
Bullet point punctuation
Bullet points can happen to the best of us. If they are short and to the point, there is no need to end them with a period or full stop.
How to align bullet points in PowerPoint
the page a grid-like structure, compensating for differences in the length of text in a bullet bullet points in PowerPoint, is to use boxes with a very light background. This background shape gives the image to the right). That bullet points are NOT the main design concept to make PowerPoint point. Even if some bullet points stretch over 2 lines, and others consist of a few words, the page How to align bullet points in PowerPoint
But we are a serious company!
bullet points can be highly professional, and highly serious. Just take a different theme than easy step to make once you have made the big leap of leaving bullet points behind.
Slow down impatient clickers
Here is another argument against dense bullet points. Most business presentations today are read on a screen (increasingly a tablet), rather than watched live. You might think that bullet points are actually good for reading on a screen. They are, BUT. People have become so impatient, and overloaded with presentations that they just “page down” a document quickly, reading the headline and thinking “OK, I get it, next...” [click] [click] [click] The only way to slow that reader down is to break up that bullet point chart in multiple slides and write the important messages clear and in her face, supported by the right visual.
Logo repeats - bullet points in disguise
I often use a "logo repeat" technique to hammer home a set of interesting assets a company has, or a number of favorable forces that are helping a company. I must admit that these slides are bullet points in disguise, but the repetitive use of logos and other graphical elements make them powerful somehow. Logo repeats - bullet points in disguise
Make the point on every page?
If there is a very important message in your story, there is no need to make it on every page in your presentation. Fifteen half-baked bullet points are not as powerful as one carefully crafted slide that drives your message home. Added side benefit: you can make your presentation even shorter!
Slide make-over secrets
You do not have to pay a professional presentation designer to do basic chart make-overs. Here are the secrets: Take out ugly reflections, bevels, and huge shadows Center things properly Align and distribute any object on the slide Cut words on bullet points Group bullet point lists in sub categories Take out random colors and replace with those in the logo Remove Times Roman and Comic Sans and replace with Arial Take out italics and underline Round chart numbers and other financial information No ticks on chart axes Chart gap width to 50% Titles all in the same place, on 1 line (chop words if necessary) Replace fuzzy logos with bullet points (i.e., the next line starts under the bullet, rather than at the indent) Reset images to their original aspect ratio After this, no need for a slide-make-over artist.
Yesterday's Apple special event
others, repeatedly looking down at the stage monitor to keep on script. Bullet points can happen to the best of us. a product, a slide with a beautiful photo appeared, with a list of bullet points appeared
The dark background effect
bullet points are actually harder to read on a dark background than a light one? Who knows, but if it works, it works… Photo by Good Free Photos on Unsplash bullet points. For some reason, people do a better job when working on a dark slide background
The first 4 bullets
collection of bullet points, he translated that 1 minute into a number of bullets. However, that same minute bullet points on it? Not necessarily. What the analyst said was that he wanted to get excited about
Video briefing
? Probably not. One way to get them to say the right things is write the messages down in bullet points that
Clever categorisation
bullet points: some are detailed, some are generic, some are important, others not, some overlap
Clockwise or counter-clockwise
pages 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise. It creates the exact same visual delay as bullet points: Read "clock wise" Imagine clock movement Project movement on image Think: "No I need the other
Playing around with fonts in section separators
way, it looks a bit more interesting than six bullet points.
Designers and developers sitting in a tree...
This presentation was uploaded to SlideShare yesterday. Simple colors. Beautiful fonts. No stock images. OK, some bullet points, but nicely formated. A great example of a presentation that can stand on its own, without the presenter being present. Designers & Developers Sitting in a Tree (Web09) View more presentations from Dan Rubin. More on picking the right presentation style for the right presentation occasion in a previous post.
Zap that lone bullet point
Bullet points are bad for presentations, so use the opportunity if you can get away with just one brief sentence on a slide: resist the urge to put a bullet point in front of it, even if the Microsoft PowerPoint template really encourages you to do so. Bullets are only for lists of 2 or more sentences, (and lists of 2 or more sentences should be avoided if you can).
Twitter goes PPT
Twitter is keen to find ways to become more accessible to a broader audience, beyond the tech-savvy early adopters. The answer so far: images. Images grab the attention better than obscure hashtags and @ reply's, and - sneakily - provides a way around the 140 character limit on a Tweet. The results, lots of poor visuals. This large headshot is an attention grabber, but I am not sure whether Twitter users will take the time to read through the dense bullet points.
The best briefing
The worst presentation briefing (and as a result most time-consuming presentation design project) is a long deck of slides full of bullet points that have been shortened (hey, we learned about being concise) to such an extend that they have turned into meaningless, generic prose. The best presentation briefing (and start of a rapid presentation design project): the audio track of a 15 minute video of the actual presentation, the existing slides are not really needed.
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