Slideology the Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations Nancy Duarte
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I found this book to con This book was slightly disappointing. Any learner has to walk the line betwixt theory and awarding. Theory is essential or 1 often won't understand the nuances of implementation and application. I had hoped this book would help me make better slide presentations. What I demand is practical awarding that will improve the style I present information in PowerPoint, the heroin of the corporate world. This hated just desperately desired form of communication is ubiquitous.
I found this book to comprise examples that were more focused on executives presenting to public audiences and marketers. I'k guessing that is about .2% or less of all slide shows created by the white collar drones like me, who spend their professional lives in dusty cubicle farms, basking under the fluorescent low-cal of the information age. Our jobs primarily require us to create and communicate ideas, the best of which survive a nasty corporate gauntlet to go embodied in the blueprint and code of computer systems or in the manual processes blindly followed past hordes of workers.
Anyone who's ever cared to paint a room in their house has gotten plenty color bike exposure from standing at the paint fleck display at Lowe's, so I don't demand another chapter dedicated to it in this book.
Following the before and after examples in this book would go me fired. Now the author might say that THAT is the very trouble her firm is trying to accost. If that is the case then book is a valiant attempt. However, many of us need baby steps. Milk before meat. ...more
Slide: ology is the volume for you. Please don't breed.
Does stock photography inspire you? Do you lot feel a deep demand for a volume filled with endless instance studies of 'business organization winners'? Practise yous aspire to win the acceptance of MBAs that dress for success?Slide: ology is the book for y'all. Delight don't breed.
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A quick and very insightful read for anyone who needs to communicate concepts and stories effectively.
This book covers how to create ideas, translate them into pictures, display them well, and present them in your own natural fashion.
Volume covers everything you need to know about making slides - from presentation concepts, fonts and colors, images, and video.
I recommend this volume to anybody!
The twelve chapters covers creating a new ideology, creating ideas, creating diagrams, displaying data, thinking like a designer, arranging elements, visual elements,
This is a cracking volume for presenters on how to design a dandy slide show to go along with your presentation. Exist warned, this is not a book that shows yous how to use presentation software like keynote or powerpoint. It is a blueprint focused volume on how to tell your story and present your information visually in a way that is effective.The twelve chapters covers creating a new ideology, creating ideas, creating diagrams, displaying data, thinking like a designer, arranging elements, visual elements, images, creating movement, templates, interacting with slides and finally the manifesto (5 steps). It covers all the major components from knowing your audience, brainstorming ideas through to grids, diagram concepts, color selection, dissimilarity, menses, space, font choices and proximity.
This book is aimed at those who take little design experience. It will not turn you into a designer overnight but it does help you understand what you should know. And things to avoid. Each thought is usually discussed over a 2 folio spread with lots of illustrations and diagrams to help get the message across and show past example. Many of the topics covered require a whole book on their own to fully appreciate and understand. If y'all are chasing in depth coverage you might exist better off completing a design class or buying books on topics of involvement.
For those of us that want some applied advise on how to amend our presentation slides this does the job. I found it helpful in identifying what non to exercise as well equally what to practice. Being busy I did not want to have to read a arrange of books that discussed individual design concepts in great item, I only wanted to get an overall understanding for what I needed to be paying attention too. This volume help me accost this through it short summaries of cardinal thought's. I highly recommend this book for anyone designing or doing presentations who does not have a background or flare for design.
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This book piqued my interest as the author'due south company designed Al Gore's presentation in An Inconvenient Truth.
The author managed to distill many of the central tenets of great presentations - a lot that I innately knew from my line of work, but embarrassingly don't practice enough. At that place's a lot of, dare I say, best practices in here.
At present, ther
I've recently picked up a couple of books on presentation creation and public speaking. In my opinion, there'due south always room for improvement here - for everyone.This book piqued my interest equally the author's company designed Al Gore's presentation in An Inconvenient Truth.
The author managed to distill many of the key tenets of nifty presentations - a lot that I innately knew from my line of piece of work, but embarrassingly don't exercise enough. There'southward a lot of, dare I say, all-time practices in here.
At present, there are a lot of unlike types of presentations - and this volume really didn't highlight the kind that I virtually often find myself in: sales pitches. So, there'south a bit of connecting of the dots that needed to be washed.
As a lot of this volume went over blueprint 101, information technology seems that information technology was geared towards not-creative individuals. Which makes sense, every bit anybody and their brother finds themselves needing to give a PowerPoint presentation. Simply for me, more than half the book was wasted in that location.
For that reason I'd accept a hard time recommending this to my peers. Information technology is something however that I would recommend to my clients - who probably spend more time in PowerPoint than they'd like.
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This book leans towards the professional, although the middle chapters on organisation and visual elements are corking, and I'g considering using them t
I looked at this one from ii perspectives: professional and gateway. In other words, is information technology worth reading for someone already familiar with bones pattern principles that's interested in taking things to the adjacent level, and is attainable for neophytes who feel like at that place's something wrong in the presentation world and they simply want to know what it is.This volume leans towards the professional person, although the middle chapters on organisation and visual elements are smashing, and I'g considering using them to teach my students. The examples are coded in a fashion that makes them meaningful generally to well-established professionals, so information technology'due south non a volume that volition stand alone as a text for new folks, though.
Smartly written and designed with great examples.
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The principal signal, which I know is my greatest weakness, is brevity, and using PPT as an aid to your presentation.
Not most as helpful equally I had hoped. I wanted lots of examples, but instead they did "case studies" on people instead of presentations, such as Al Gore's use of PPT for An Inconvenient Truth. The remainder was rhetoric.The primary bespeak, which I know is my greatest weakness, is brevity, and using PPT equally an aid to your presentation.
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PowerPoint Karaoke: "slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations" by Nancy Duarte
At that place is nothing wrong with presentation software. How else exercise you nowadays a sophisticated graph, map, chart or tabular array? Are we all actually going to do a Bill Bryson and offer an entirely oral presentation of the universe to encompass cantankerous sections, programme views, 3D geometry, and circuitous mathematical proofs? You must all be fucking stupid and
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.PowerPoint Karaoke: "slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations" by Nancy Duarte
There is naught incorrect with presentation software. How else practise you present a sophisticated graph, map, nautical chart or table? Are we all really going to do a Nib Bryson and offer an entirely oral presentation of the universe to cover cantankerous sections, program views, 3D geometry, and complex mathematical proofs? You must all exist fucking stupid and have an extremely narrow range of things to discuss or present if yous never demand a diagram. Pecker Bryson does a good job, but it isn't Einstein and it isn't Bertrand Russell.
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Great layout, shame virtually the content.
Unfortunately, not nigh as good as I expected it to be. It's great, I suppose, if you take no idea about presentations and no real sense of aesthetics or practicality, but if y'all accept some experience then this will be of little use, offering few really useful tips.Dandy layout, shame about the content.
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This volume discusses some topics of organization, style, and colors in presentations.
If a presentation has too much text, numbers and figures, a written report is often a better format than slideshow.
Some of the reviews have been disparaging, as if the ideas shown here are somehow "obvious", or this volume offers
I like this book a lot. As it says in the subtitle, it explains "the fine art and scientific discipline of creating great presentations" in a articulate and elementary fashion. The text is direct and engaging, sometimes employs a little humour, and the utilise of case studies, showing principles in action, is an inspired touch on that adds an extra dimension to what would otherwise be a well-written, but theoretical text.Some of the reviews accept been disparaging, equally if the ideas shown here are somehow "obvious", or this book offers "goose egg new". Well, they may be like that to some people, simply sit down through almost whatsoever business presentation, and it'south clear that the vast majority of presenters haven't got a clue. This volume is not for people who already know how to do information technology. It's for people who want to better. As I teach presentation skills professionally, I bought it as both reference and professional evolution - I knew a lot of it already, but as I am self-taught, and have never attended an art or design form, I also learned a lot. And although information technology focuses on slides, that's not all it looks at - in that location are many other aspects of presentations discussed that arrive a far more than rounded text. Ms Duarte reminds her readers once again and once more that a presentation is much more than just the slides.
There was only i thing that grated: some of the earlier-and-after sample slides were very minor, written in a miniscule font that was well-nigh impossible to read, so it was difficult to see how the information had been redistributed across the slides in the more improved presentations. Since there was plenty of space on each page, at that place was no articulate reason why they had to exist this tiny, and it went against the principle that was conspicuously espoused for presentations: brand the font large and fully legible to your audience! And then for this, I take deducted 1 star from my rating.
Otherwise, this volume is excellent, and I would recommend it to anybody who wants to improve their presentations.
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I bought the book at a time when I was struggling to depict a very technically complex manpower planning organization in a way that was intuitively understandable. As I wo
slide:ology is designed as a reasonably comprehensive how-to guide on creating compelling visual fabric for presentations, promotional materials, and stories. The book is an easy read and visually very appealing. With a list price of $34.99, I plant the book to be a very affordable introduction to the globe of the graphic designer.I bought the book at a fourth dimension when I was struggling to depict a very technically circuitous manpower planning system in a way that was intuitively understandable. As I worked through the illustrated 260 page volume, I constitute myself nodding my head throughout. That is, Duarte's expertise shines through as she provides a very good bones construction for presentation design. This book was useful to me in my work; I incorporated some of her recommendations into the presentation that I was building.
From a critical perspective, I can't say that much of the fabric is original or unique to this volume. I've seen many of the principles described here in other works. Duarte likewise has a slight trend to pad the prentations: saying in 5 pages and 20 pictures what could exist said in a few sentences. Even with these limitations, Duarte'due south collection and organization of existing materials (with some original material sprinkled in), her easy-reading delivery, and her very strong visuals brand this volume a worthwhile read.
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The book does a good task showing the users a vast array of different styles of presentation, and assures the user that it is not only ok, merely important to have your own style.
Appropriate use of animation for slide transitions is discussed.
How/when to use bullets was discussed. Currently, nigh people over-employ them leading to the reverse of the attended outcome of a bullete
Succinct pictorial discoursed on what you should not practise—and more importantly what you should practice—with your presentation slides.The book does a good job showing the users a vast array of different styles of presentation, and assures the user that it is non only ok, but important to have your own style.
Appropriate utilise of animation for slide transitions is discussed.
How/when to utilise bullets was discussed. Currently, most people over-use them leading to the reverse of the attended effect of a bulleted list existence acheived (google "Death Past Powerpoint"). Employ of images instead of text is stressed throughout.
Encourages y'all to rehearse and solicit feedback on your presentation earlier really giving information technology.
A tiny gem. Highly reccomended.
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However, rather than being some other listing of rules (which is, frankly, what I expected), silde:ology gives you the why of the rules, as well every bit examples of successful dominion-breakage.
At that place is no absolute correct manner to make a good presentation. You tin be every bit artsy and outlandish as y'all want, just as long every bit yous are reac
Working with PowerPoint on a regular ground, I've read quite a lot of deadening rules about words per slide, slides per presentation, how many seconds yous tin spend on a slide, and whatnot.Nonetheless, rather than being another list of rules (which is, frankly, what I expected), silde:ology gives you the why of the rules, as well as examples of successful rule-breakage.
In that location is no absolute right way to make a good presentation. You can be equally artsy and outlandish every bit you want, just equally long equally you are reaching your audition.
This book also introduced me to other aspects of "slideology" that I'd like to explore, like colour theory, diagramming and typography. It'due south nice an colorful book that was actually fun to read.
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Can't wait to dive into Resonate!
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This books focus mainly on the (graphical) design aspect (whereas PresentationZen puts this emphasis on the approach and methodology).
You'll learn a lot by the repetitively 'before-later on' approach: a bad slide compares with its refactored version; impressive.
Yous will get another perception of your favourite presentation tool (PowerPo Together with PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Pattern and Delivery, you can envision beingness confortable and fluent at designing compelling presentations.
This books focus mainly on the (graphical) blueprint aspect (whereas PresentationZen puts this accent on the arroyo and methodology).
Y'all'll learn a lot by the repetitively 'before-after' approach: a bad slide compares with its refactored version; impressive.
You will get another perception of your favourite presentation tool (PowerPoint, Keynote, Impress).
This book should not be read as a novel (from page 1 to the end) only rather should you muse regularly some good tips and hints. ...more
The volume is written smartly and concisely and lays downward both the basics and takes you on a conceptual journey how and why to create a presentation. She starts by explaining how your presentation should be attuned to audience needs and then goes on how to build a deck from concept to the design stages. She likewise gives an introduction in design which doesn't go as well basic for experienced re
Nancy Duarte's book on presenting is a seminal work which should be read by everybody going near the field.The book is written smartly and concisely and lays down both the basics and takes you on a conceptual journey how and why to create a presentation. She starts by explaining how your presentation should be attuned to audition needs then goes on how to build a deck from concept to the design stages. She also gives an introduction in pattern which doesn't get too bones for experienced readers.
Together with Garr Reynold's "Presentation Zen" book, "slide:ology" is an excuse never to have to sit down through a bad presentation in your life once more.
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7 questions for knowing audition
ane. what are they like
2. why are they hither
3. what keeps them up at night
four. how can you solve their problem?
5. what do yous want them to do?
6. how might they resist?
seven. how can you best reach them?
5 data slide rules
1. tell the truth
ii. get to the point
3. p9ick the right tool for the job
4. highlight what's important
5. continue it simple
placement of elements created meaning: contract, menses, hierarchy, unity, proximity, whitespace
on a slide - avoid one thousand
lots of examples of slides7 questions for knowing audience
1. what are they like
2. why are they here
3. what keeps them up at dark
4. how tin you solve their problem?
5. what do you want them to do?
vi. how might they resist?
7. how can you all-time reach them?
5 information slide rules
1. tell the truth
ii. get to the point
3. p9ick the right tool for the job
iv. highlight what's important
5. keep it simple
placement of elements created meaning: contract, menstruum, hierarchy, unity, proximity, whitespace
on a slide - avoid more than 3 layers of information
- create points of interest -1 main & up to 2 sub
- develop flow, and images with clear directional flow
If you lot like to present in public & you care about improving the fashion you do it - it's a must accept.
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This volume makes some fantabulous points almost how to make Power Point non suck (east.g. slides are there to back you up, not the other mode around). If you have some solid blueprint skills, it will piece of work beautifully for you, but beginners may find some of the ideas a bit challenging (or lack resource to execute them). The principles work well for eve I love the episode of the Office (United states version), where Rainn Wilson's graphic symbol sets the office on fire after his Power Signal presentation proves ineffective.
This book makes some splendid points nigh how to make Power Betoken not suck (e.g. slides are there to back you up, not the other fashion effectually). If you have some solid design skills, it volition work beautifully for you lot, but beginners may find some of the ideas a bit challenging (or lack resources to execute them). The principles work well for everyone though. ...more
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