12 tips for better slide design. 94 slides in 5 minutes

1. SLIDE DESIGN

2. Shane Becker

3. @veganstraightedge

7. Open Source
Cheerleader

8. Rubinius

11. BAD

13. Pro ™

14. 1

15. Big Text

16. BIG TEXT

17. 2

18. NoSQL

19. NoText

20. Less Text

21. • Don't use lists of bullet points
• It makes the text to small and not easily
readable
• Additionally the people in the audience will
read ahead of what you're saying
• Everyone loses

22. Title Text
• Body Level One
• Body Level Two
• Body Level Three
• Body Level Four
• Body Level Five

23. 3

24. High
Contrast

25. High
Contrast

26. 4

27. Slide Scale

28. Edge to edge
text

29. 5

30. Location
Location
Location

31. Location, Location,
Location
centered

32. Location,
Location,
Location
Top Left

33. Location, Location

34. 6

35. Charts,

36. Not Tables

37. Single Double
Rainbow Rainbow
Almost
Triple ✔
So
Beautiful ✔ ✔

38. Awesome Hilarious Sunniness Vacationy Smelly Pretty Greenish
Mercury 6 1 9 1 1 2 0
Venus -3 1 8 8 10 5 2
Earth 9 1 6 N/A Nerd 1 or 10 9
Mars Red 1 5 3 4 3 0
Jupiter Big 1 4 7 10 Big 4
Saturn 7.5e32 1 3 8 3 7 2
Uranus 9 10 2 2 Wink 0 ?
Neptune 3 1 1 1 1 4 4

39. 10
7.5
5
2.5
0
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

40. MRI 26 49 65 94 110 150 165 181 197 213
rbx 34 34 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36

41. 300
200
100
0

42. 300
250
200
150
100
50
0

43. 7

44. Clean Typeface

45. Helvetica

46. Helvetica Neue

47. HelveticaPaintings.com

48. Museo

49. Comic Serif

50. Not This

51. Or This

52. Or This

53. Or This

54. 8

55. Over the Top

56. ☺
No Bottom

57. 9

58. Big Picture
Spending Cheese

59. boston.com/bigpicture

60. boston.com/bigpicture

62. Teh Codez

63. hardboiledwebdesign.com/talk#slideshow Andy Clarke

64. slideshare.net/slidarko/gremlin-a-graphbased-programming-language-3876581 Marko Rodriguez

65. slideshare.net/wycats/sproutcore-amber Yehuda Katz

66. slideshare.net/wycats/sproutcore-amber Yehuda Katz

67. Teh Codez

68. 11

69. Shades of Grey

70. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

71. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

72. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

73. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

74. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

75. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

76. 12

77. Build UP &
Break Down

78. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

79. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

80. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

81. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

82. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

83. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

84. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

85. slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here Chris Messina

86. So...

87. Remember
remember

88. flic.kr/joebeone/376843960

89. Design for
audience

90. flic.kr/adactio/3916707417

91. iamshane.com