How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon

Very helpful ❤

Omg, what a trivial first world problem. Get a life, you nerd.

i dont believe anyone is gonna die from powerpoint

1- one message per one slide
2- simple pictures and small texts
3- The most important part is to be the biggest one
4- brightening and fading
5- A dark background is easier for your eyes
6- The magical number 6
7- don't disturb the audience with sentences if you want to speak

7/Dec/2023

I created PPT presentations just so that we had something to show the customer. If we didn’t have a deck to show, it was the end of the world! Early on I was most concerned about how the slide looked and not the story I was trying to tell…are the columns lined up? Is this graphic the best one? Should I animate the slide? I hated having to prepare one. I’m so glad I don’t have to do them anymore.

Shoutout Alex Hormozi

These all seem like such simple and obvious things to consider and yet it's never crossed my mind

Chap is a bit long winded - are his power points the same? But some great points are made.
I find three basic categories serve to aid focus: start a conversation, wrap one up, or incidents. The first two are a get in, get it, and get out proposition. Pace these briskly. Examples of the first might be investment strategies, the second the performance of those [quarterly or what have you]. Advertising campaigns behave in similar fashion. Incidents are problem solving territory: something new is forcing an adjustment or something went wrong and remediation needs attention. Going granular is unavoidable, but the goal is engagement above all: the other people gathered are going to be part of the solution, and are not simple sponges. Time limit yourself to leave breathing room for the back end, because there's only one smartest guy in the room, and I'm not it!
Personally, I like to avoid superfluous text content: some things need pictures, others don't. For investing... charts present trends quickly and solidly in a way that simple adjectves sometimes find trouble. There's just a touch of vaudville in presentations: audience feedback is immediate in an unspoken way: they're either captured or not - learning this [pace] is done by doing: it has to be you, it has to be live. Stub your toe, laugh, and keep moving.

This is one of the best and most insightful videos on visualization I've seen. Your presentation did not only exhibit mastery of PowerPoint Presentation, it made it difficult for anyone not to understand and focus on the presentation even if the person deliberately decided not to. Many thanks for enhancing my PowerPoint skills.

JESUS LOVES YOU ALL SO DEARLY!!!!!
GOD BLESS!!!
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.

This presentation has advice that should eliminate the need for a Kevlar vest. PowerPoint can be the most vicious of weapons and can provoke audiences into a commensurate response, hopefully just in their heads.

For work we had to split into teams and do a mock pitch to an (actual) senior client as a way to get critical feedback. Our team came second and one of the biggest pieces of positive feedback was the dark background and simplicity of the slides (using Sway in this case): meant they could enjoy what we were actually saying.

❤ awesome.

This relaxing sounds so soothing. calming to my ears. Thanks for uploading this inspiring music.

white noiseee

Very good masterpiece

number of objects

This is so powerful!

Watching this in 2023, 9 years later, and wishing I watched this earlier.

I can agree about the TV distracting from conversation, when I'm in restaurants I insist on having a seat where my back is to the TV because I don't want to have my eyes glued to sports the whole time! I don't like sports, but I can't help but look at the movement.

This Ted Talk should be in the curriculum of every school in the Universe.

I love this presentation, but that is NOT a crossword 🤣

How do u contrast ??

AH bought me here 🧲

how to create those highlight text while others are fade?

Great video / presentation. Makes perfect sense :)

Hemananda Vadivel Sir, is a big fan of your presentation @codebasics ...... Love from Lucknow India

Alex Harmozi brought me here

Alex Hormozi sent me here

Who else ? 🙋‍♂️

Who's here after watching this being mentioned on Alex Hormozi's video?

Awesome presentation! My pet hate is when the presenter says „you can read my slide faster than I can speak it“ - I cannot read and listen to them at the same time when the slide has a zillion objects on it! I immediately switch off!

Five Design Principals to Avoid Death by Powerpoint
1) One Message per slide
2) Working Memory 'Writing on Slide + Speaking = No retention' Minimize text on slides.
3) Size 'Eyes go to big objects, moving objects, signaling colors, & contrast rich objects'
4) Contrast 'Dark background presentations let eyes focus on the speaker'
5) Limit Objects to Six per slide

Came in because of hormozi, legend

S/O to Alex Hormozi for this one!

I came here to watch because Alex Hormozi mentioned "Death by PowerPoint TEDx Talk" in his video. This is a great video - very informative and entertaining. Thank you, David JP Phillips!

Anyone here from Alex hormozi?

Anyone also here for Speech Extra Credit cause same :D

This was helpful. I was directed here from watching a video from Alex Hormozi. Will implement these into my presentations now

Absolutely wonderful! Still completely on board but let's review what a crossword is...

Just loved it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Very Useful Tips. David, the use of "God"or "My God" is out of context. The lessons you teach about PowerPoint can still be understood and remembered without it.

I use it in the university course I teach. The best guidance for preparing presentations. Delivered in a witty way that my students remember the rules forever! 🙂

This was great! Now let's hope more people watch and implement.

He didn't remove the 13/95 slides. Great presentation and reminder!

The presenter david gave a nice presentation on how to present your presenatation effectively.

Excelente conteúdo. Abre uma nova perspectiva de apresentar uma ideia, construir um argumento baseado em evidências. Fantástico!!!!