slide:ology
by Nancy Duarte
Duarte, whose firm built Al Gore's climate slides, on visual presentation: thinking like a designer, creating diagrams, displaying data, arranging elements, using colour and images, and the 'glance test'. It is a design book with slides as the subject and the gold standard on the topic.
Read it if…
your slides are ugly and you know it.
Skip it if…
you want to work on the story; see her Resonate.
Three things you will actually use
- If it cannot be understood in three seconds, redesign it.
- One idea per slide.
- Whitespace is not empty.
Do this first
Apply the three-second glance test to your last deck.
Our verdict
The gold standard on slides.
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