S3.23_BUSM4573 W3: Designing Presentations

Designing Presentation Slides: Do we NEED slides ?

• Absolutely

• NO

• Some times

We would need SLIDES

• 1. if We talk in business setting

• 2. If We want to talk about business figure

• 3. If We want to communicate some complex information

• Answers 2,3

• Answers 1,2,3

So why do we need SLIDES ?

1.Remind us what to say (Tex-based)

2.Impress audience, emotional impacts (photographs)

3.Explain stuff to the audience (chart, diagram…)

4.Prove something (raw data, figure, number)

• True

• False

The consequences of too much text in a slide

• 1. Low contact with your audience

• 2. Become an automatic reader of the slides

• 3. Lacking of focus

• 1&2

• 1&3

Design is not structure, design is about creating decoration

• True

• False

PowerPoint Failures:

1.Not enough information provided to support the main point

2.Too slowly

3.Read word by word

4.Too much material

5.Too much irrelevant details

by DR. Stepen Kosslyn

• True

• False

In Designing Presentations, what are the priorities

• 1.Structure comes first, decoration, second

• 2.Communication status

• 3.Creativity (Fun, cool, beautiful)

• 4.Functionality (goal)

• All of the answers

Design Principles No.1

•Design is planning

•Design is attention management

•Design is communicating priorities

•Design is to prioritize stuffs

• True

• False

Design Principles No.2

• 1. Design is to address the need of audience

• 2. Designer is somebody who makes things easier, more functional, more practical, and communicate the priorities to the audience

• 3. You have to decorate first, structure comes second

• Answers 1&3

• Answers 1&2

The INTRO Method – Beginning the Presentation Period. And INTRO stands for:

•Interest: stimulate audience’ interest in the subject matter for the presentation period

•Need: tell the audience why they need to know the information (past experiences, their future, and/or their interests and values)

•Time: review how the presentation time will be devided

•Range: discuss the range of presentation activities or flow

•Objective: State the instructional objective(s) you have prepared. Let the audience know that “By the end of this presentation, we hope you will be able to…”

• True

• False