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Whatever tool you use, try not to get
overwhelmed with all

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the different features, and, you know,
everything that these things have.

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I mean, they're very cool, right?

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But they could also be a little too much
to begin with.

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So, you know, you can still give a
fantastic presentation, even if you

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stick with the basics, and, that's because
it's not so much about the tool.

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That you use.

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It's what you say, and how you deliver the
content.

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And in fact, slides and tools can often
get in the way.

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I mean, many speakers will use them as a
crutch.

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I mean, sort of like, like this, right?

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So, here's my slide.

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This is how some speakers use slides.

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And it goes something exactly like this,
right?

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Like, you know, preparations is very
important.

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When you're preparing your presentation,
right?

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And with this kind of distracting
animation, the stuff comes in and,

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speakers will write down every single word
they wanna say in advance.

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And speakers will basically turn their
script into a set of bullets.

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Large blocks of text on the screen.

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Slides become unbearable for the audience.

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They start reading.

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These slides when they should be
listening.

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Alright [INAUDIBLE] did you, did you get
the picture?

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I mean, this is, this is not how you give
a presentation.

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I mean everything is there, and all you're
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is reading, and, there's no real style to
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And you can almost like, you know, if the,
if the text

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is there, I've seen people, I've done this
myself at, at events where.

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The person's just reading.

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Just kind of, going through the motions,
reading all

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the text and I can almost, I know what
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going to say, and it becomes kind of a
game,

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and it's just, it really takes me out of
it.

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But, you know, the, the audience loses
focus, and there

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are much better ways to, to use
presentations to communicate.

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Now, as a response to this.

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Lots of presenters out there have adopted
a kind of Zen presentation style.

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Right?

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So, instead of using text and bullets,
they wanna use, you know, they

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wanna remove all of that, completely, and
use some sort of metaphorical image.

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And maybe they put a, a word on there as
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But the idea being that.

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You know, this all represents a theme,
and, and the speaker wants

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the audience not to read, while they're
talking, but to, to concentrate.

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Right so, maybe there's a slide like this.

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Right, you know, this big, you know,
there's a big image and then there's text.

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Be original, be original, right?

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Real vague and.

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You're not sure exactly what it means.

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And maybe, as your, you know?

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What happens a lot of times, is when
audiences look at these pictures.

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And, they don't have to be someone's weird
pants, right?

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They could be a, a beautiful landscape.

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They could be children playing.

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They could be some kind of stock
photography you've seen 50 times before.

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But when people are looking at these
images.

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And looking at your, your very brief
message on there.

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It's very vague.

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They're trying to, you know, they stop
listening.

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And they start trying to figure out what
it means.

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And what might be happening is the speaker
is speaking.

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And the speaker might actually be giving
great information.

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They might be listing like, five great
tips on how you can be original, right?

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And all the while you're looking at this

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guys pants, like, yeah those are pretty
original.

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And, wait.

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What happened?

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What was that you said?

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Right?

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So, here's the deal right?

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Every speaker is different.

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They all have their own style, and it fits
their personality and presentation style.

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The more that you the more that you create
these slide decks the better more refined.

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Your present state, presentation style
will become but, I always go back to

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this book, just like Steve [UNKNOWN] says,
in his book about web design.

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Don't make me think, alright?

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Presentations have a visual aspect, and
they have a text aspect.

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All right?

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They must work together.

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You must have them work together to have
the most effective presentation.

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Don't make your audience think too hard.

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About what you're trying to say.

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I mean, make your visuals obvious, and
relevant.

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And use them to help tell a story.

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Right?

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Don't rely on stock photos or, or
something really vague.

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And, you know, use these images to tell
stories not as decoration.

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Don't just throw something up there,

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without the intention of it meaning
something.

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In fact, one thing about images too.

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Sometimes a lot of great visuals can come

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from your own camera, or your own phone,
right?

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Not only are they more personal, but
there's already a, a story that you

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can attach to it where you took it, who's
in the picture, what's happening here?

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And you can share that during your
presentation.

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And another great plus too, is that
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are usually I mean, they're royalty free,
for you to use.

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So there's no.

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royalties, or rights that you have to
worry about.

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So, combining your visuals, with concise
written content, on

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the slide, that drives home your points,
is a more effective way to do things.

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Only put up there what needs to be shown.

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Not necessarily what you want to say.

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Now in order to influence certain types of
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some presenters like to use data, to make
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Now a slide like this.

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Helps visualize how men and women in the
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States, are waiting longer than ever,
before they get married.

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Right?

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This is something that the census bureau
put up, but

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for designers and devs, perhaps your data
will show, you know?

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This is how much money you can save by
hiring us.

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Or, this is how we've positively affected
user growth.

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For other clients or, we've reduced weight
time for users by X%.

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Here's the data.

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When people who are driven by numeric
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see something compelling, they will act,
all right?

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And, of course, when you reference data.

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Be sure to put the source in there, you
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legitimize this data so that they know
it's not imaginary.

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Now, some audiences rely on anecdotal
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You know, they wanna hear what real people
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said about you, and your work, and so on.

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Now, on the Treehouse website, we have a
full section devoted to

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some great success stories from our

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students, because, they are really
compelling.

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They're, there's, they're just amazing
stories.

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And if you're pitching a client you know,
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wanna know what have your past clients
said about your work.

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If you're proposing a new project at work
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a, a certain department or a group of
users.

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What have those users told you about what
they need?

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And if you are proposing fixes to a
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What did the test users actually say and
do during the user tests?

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So, sometimes a great way to drive home a
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to back it up with something that someone
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And then it makes a lot more sense.

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Another point about slide design.

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Your slides can take.

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Whatever look and format that you want
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But, whatever you do.

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You know, if you're, please be creative.

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But also be consistent.

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Don't suddenly change themes, fonts, or
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You know, during your presentation.

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Unless there's a good reason for it.

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You know, some kind of effect.

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And, you know, you can use as many slides
as you want.

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Don't think that, you know, every slide
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or, or, you know, you're under some kind
of you know, restriction there.

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You know, you should know how much time
you have to deliver your entire talk.

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But not every slide needs to take the same
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Use them however you need to, to say what
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be said, and to drive home your points,
with maximum effect.

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So, consider how time may be a factor and
as you're developing your presentation.

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Make sure that you practice.

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What I like to do is on, usually on most
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have some kind of a stopwatch or timer,
something that you can use.

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And I was a prepping this, I would read
through my, my notes, and I would

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time myself, and I would try to figure out
how long exactly the talk would take.

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And if I wanted to.

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Add some in, information in certain parts.

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Or you know?

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Take some stuff away to kinda speed things
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Now, if you'd like some inspiration.

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One website that I suggest is going out to
Slide Share, slideshare.com.

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Lots of speakers put up their slide decks.

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Up there to share with attendees at their
respective events.

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And you can see, how different speakers
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Visuals, texts, and different slides, to
tell their whole story.