Personally, I choose to create separate slides for each piece of information content I introduce-where the final slide has the entire diagram, and I use cropping or a cover on duplicated slides that come before to hide what I’m not yet ready to include. You can accomplish the buildup of components in several ways-for example, using presentation software to cover/uncover information. The progressive buildup of complex information means that audiences are prepared to understand the whole picture, once you have dedicated time to each of the parts. In another example, if you are presenting a complex computational approach in a large flow diagram, introduce it in smaller units, building it up until you finish with the entire diagram. Often, this means breaking complex ideas down into manageable pieces (see Fig 1, where “background” information has been split into 2 key concepts).
Rules 9 to 10 are about preparing for your presentation, with the slides as the central focus of that preparation.Įach slide should have one central objective to deliver-the main idea or question. Rules 6 to 8 are about principles around designing elements of the slide. Rules 1 to 5 are about optimizing the scope of each slide. The rules are broken into 3 primary areas. This is written for anyone who needs to prepare slides from any length scale and for most purposes of conveying research to broad audiences. As all research presentations seek to teach, effective slide design borrows from the same principles as effective teaching, including the consideration of cognitive processing your audience is relying on to organize, process, and retain information. While there have been excellent 10 simple rules on giving entire presentations, there was an absence in the fine details of how to design a slide for optimal effect-such as the design elements that allow slides to convey meaningful information, to keep the audience engaged and informed, and to deliver the information intended and in the time frame allowed. Multiple slides are strung together to tell the larger story of the presentation. A slide is a single page projected on a screen, usually built on the premise of a title, body, and figures or tables and includes both what is shown and what is spoken about that slide. The “presentation slide” is the building block of all academic presentations, whether they are journal clubs, thesis committee meetings, short conference talks, or hour-long seminars.
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