10 simple rules for awesome PowerPoint presentations

by Matthew on 08-25-2010 09:18 AM

411iA03AB80CAD5D1A02PowerPoint presentations are now a standard business and sales tool and hence, nearly everyone at least once in their career has had to sit through a really boring or poorly prepared slide show presentation. Therefore, a recent post on HubSpot is a must read for anyone who needs to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.

 

HubSpot noted that Duarte Design, a Silicon Valley design shop, recently put on a slide:smileysurprised:logy workshop which contained a wealth of useful information about putting together awesome PowerPoint presentations. From that workshop, HubSpot came up with these 10 key but simple rules for better presentations:

 

  1. No bullets
  2. Start on paper
  3. The 30pt rule
  4. No starbursts
  5. One thought per slide
  6. Time-limits, not slide-limits
  7. One thought per slide
  8. No logo on every slide
  9. No chart junk
  10. Tell a story

And as a great follow-up to this post that was written at the request of readers, HubSpot has a second post containing 17 examples of great presentations. These presentations will give you a fairly good idea as to what a great presentation design is and isn't. 

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Comments
by SMI(anon) on 08-27-2010 05:20 PM
We have а free PowerPoint templates
by Chris Dodson(anon) on 08-29-2010 11:07 AM

Some great stuff in here. Keep up the great work.

 

Have you ever used prezi.com? It's a free tool, really easy to use and helps tell a story.

by Matthew on 09-03-2010 06:44 AM

Hi Chris, I did use Prezi.com once and it's pretty cool. I'd love to see that kind of interactivity built into PowerPoint. You can do it a bit with clickable links and areas but you have to get a bit geeky and there's no inherent support for that kind of navigation. PowerPoint is just so linear, man. (Nice site, by the way, I've added it to the blogroll here.)

by Jeremy(anon) on 04-26-2011 11:32 PM

very well written and detailed. But all the same backdrop for presentations need to choose better. I can offer templates http://imaginelayout.com/

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