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Book Description

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.
 

Table of Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
    1. 1. Design Matters
      1. Who Is This Book For?
      2. What Is Design?
      3. 14 Ways to Think Like a Designer
      4. Design and Presentation Zen
      5. Learning from Wagasa
      6. About This Book
    2. 3. Communicating with Color
      1. Lessons from Sumi-e
      2. Express the Essence with Less
      3. Creating Harmony with Color
      4. Simple Color Combinations
      5. Achieving an Emotional Connection
      6. Working with Color
      7. In Sum
    3. 4. Using Images to Tell Stories
      1. The Visual Matters
      2. We Are Visual Beings
      3. Power of the Photograph
      4. Common Image Mistakes
      5. Making Your Own Images
      6. In Sum
    4. 6. Simplifying the Data
      1. Clarity in Simplicity
      2. When to Use a Document Instead of Slides
      3. Common Charts and Graphs
      4. What About Picture Graphs?
      5. Stephen Few’s Graph Design IQ Test
      6. The Future of Data Presentation
      7. In Sum
  3. Principles
    1. 7. Seeing and Using Space
      1. The Beauty and Function of Space
      2. Ikebana and Space
      3. Achieving Balance in Space
      4. Gestalt and the Power of the Whole
      5. Showing Restraint and Preserving Space
      6. In Sum
    2. 9. Achieving Harmony
      1. Simplify to Unify
      2. Noticing the Similarities
      3. Providing Visual Cues
      4. Connecting the Elements
      5. Using a Grid to Provide Structure
      6. 10 Japanese Aesthetic Principles to Consider
      7. In Sum
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