This Is Your Brain on Visuals 2may2012

Rules and tools for effective slides in your presentations

This Is Your Brain on Visuals

Hi!

Get up!

Thank you.

Thank you. (and a caveat)

Jon Swerens

Jon Swerens

Martins Ferry

“Ah-hi-ya”

Perfecting your presentation

Rules and tools for effective slides in your presentations

This Is Your Brain on Visuals

Favorite pizza toppings: •Bacon •Green peppers •Onions •Canadian ham •Pineapple

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(Thanks to Garr Reynolds for the recommendation.)

Informative!

(Thanks to Garr Reynolds for the recommendation.)

Vision trumps all other senses

vision

vision

sound touch

taste/smell speech

planning movement

social memory

emotions etc.

We don’t pay attention to boring things

Your brain

Your brain is a theater


Enormous audience


Enormous audience

Tiny stage

“We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.”

Dr. John Medina The myth of multitasking

“We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.”

Dr. John Medina

Not enough

TOO MUCH!

Favorite pizza toppings: •Bacon •Green peppers •Onions •Canadian ham •Pineapple

Bacon

Bacon

Green peppers

Pineapple


The talk leads the slides.

Nuts and bolts

Slides

Use a lot; they’re free

Avoid the Microsoft templates!

You are watching “Inception” Warnerbros.com

Text

One font with bold

One simple font with bold

Serifs: Garamond Georgia Palatino

Times

Sans serifs: Arial

Franklin Gothic Myriad

Open Sans

One simple font plus bold

Not too small

With good contrast

Photos

Paid images

Free images

Your camera

Charts

Introducing: The world’s worst PowerPoint slide

vision

sound touch

taste/smell speech

planning movement

social memory

emotions etc.

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1/3

vision sound touch

taste/smell speech

planning movement

social memory

emotions etc.

68 miles

68 miles

68 miles


We don’t pay attention to boring things

Credits and notes: jonswerens.com


This Is Your Brain on Visuals 2may2012

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