Presentations can be viewed from three stylistic perspectives Structure and Speech Delivery Archives, Cal-Tech Visual Aids.

Presentations can be viewed from three stylistic perspectives

Structure andSpeech

Delivery

Archives, Cal-Tech

Visual Aids

One type of visual aid that deserves reflection is the presentation slide

Downstream of the combustor simulator is asection to test turbine vanes

Turbine Vanes

Combustor Simulator

Audiences remember more when youuse well-designed slides

10 20 30 40 50 60

Recall (%)

Hearand See

See

Hear

What information to include?

Excluded

Included

What format to choose?

No matter what type of projection you use,you must make certain decisions

Choose a format that is easily read

Arial

BOOK ANTIQUA

Choose legible type

Choose a helpful layout

wordswordswordswords

wordswordswords

words

Color can distinguisha presentation

Color affects how fastthe audience can read

The color combination that is read most quickly is black on yellow.

Color affects how fastthe audience can read

What is important is that the combination has contrast—the one on this slide fails to do so.

Color affects how fastthe audience can read

Combinations of red, green, and brown are difficult for many people to read

Color affects the emotionsof the audience

Avoid having a hot color such as red or orange as your background color.

Headline

Body

Recommended here is a sentence-headline design that quickly orients the audience

The sentence headline succinctly statesthe main assertion of the slide

Body supportswith words

Body supportswith images

compressor

combustor

turbine

Secondary flows enter the primary flow through film-cooling holes and dilution jets

Turbine Vanes

SecondaryFlow

PrimaryFlow

SecondaryFlow

Dilution Jet

Combustor Simulator

Film-Cooling Holes