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Learning & communication / 2023

Presentation Design

Make the idea easier to understand.

A presentation has to carry an idea while giving an audience room to follow it. This collection brings together decks I designed and developed for my own teaching and for others, along with a print takeaway and an animated program overview. The common task is to make unfamiliar ideas easier to follow and use.

My contribution
Presentation design & development for design education and internal communication
Design focus
Give an audience a clear path through unfamiliar ideas.
Decisions behind the work
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Teach through context

Presentation principles are explained through their application to presentation construction.

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Support use afterward

A print takeaway gives attendees a reference beyond the live session.

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Use motion to explain

Keynote transitions were designed to make relationships between related content easier to follow.

Design around the explanation.

Visual structure, supporting materials, and purposeful motion serve different parts of the explanation: organizing the idea, providing a reference, and showing continuity.

Make the principles concrete.

Designing an Effective Presentation explains core design principles through the task of building a presentation, connecting the ideas to an immediate application.

Make the principles concrete.

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Give the learning a useful reference.

A print takeaway accompanied the talk, giving attendees a resource to consult after the presentation.

Give the learning a useful reference.

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Introduce a new way of thinking.

Design for Humans was designed for instructional designer Myra Dolores to present to an internal team. It introduces the foundations of human-centered design developed by IDEO.

Introduce a new way of thinking.

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Make relationships visible.

This program/course overview uses Keynote’s Magic Move to carry related elements between slides. The intent is to make continuity and relationships easier to follow as the explanation develops.

Make relationships visible.

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