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Simplify Your Presentation
Simplify Your Presentation When is the topic of simplification more salient than during this season, as we all scramble around to get organized for the holidays and dawning of a new year? With the constant conflicting demands of stressful professional lives and hectic personal obligations, it can be easy to forget to step back, breathe in [...]
Happy Turkey Day!
Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at SlideRabbit. Save some stuffing for us!
Designing for Display
Designing for Display In the last few months at SlideRabbit, we've dealt with some pretty interesting display methods: the giant mega-screens at Jay-Z's 4040 Club, large rear-projection screens in courtrooms, aged monitors and even personal computers. The truth is, even if intended for a certain venue, a presentation may hit several different display methods in its [...]
SlideRabbit Goes Clubbing!
SlideRabbit Goes Clubbing! Last week, we were thrilled to work on a deck celebrating the Communications and Public Affairs team of a large global PR firm. The event took place at The 40/40 Club, Jay-Z's Manhattan lounge. Our slide deck played on 9-screen megascreens. Heading up the design was our incredible Principal Creative, Tara Wilson-Valaitis. She [...]
Data Display: Which Format Fits Best?
Data Display: Which Format Fits Best? In almost every slide deck, there's at least one assertion requiring the back up of solid data. Presenters are faced with the challenge of how to display this data in a way that supports the conclusion offered in an easily understood way. When choosing a format for data display, [...]
Slide Design: 5 Tips for Hardworking Titles
Slide Design: 5 Tips for Hardworking Titles There is no more greatly undervalued place on a presentation slide than the title field. Too often, title fields are filled with vague descriptors, packed with unnecessary verbage, or, worse, skipped all together (e.g. the Zimmerman trial prosecution slides). Slide titles have great real estate and should be [...]
The Value Of The Visual
The Value Of The Visual Between the horrendous NSA slides and the disappointing prosecutorial closing presentation in the Trayvon Martin case, we've seen some pretty terrible slide design in the news lately. These recent examples might seem like the exception, but unfortunately, they indicate the underlying perception that presentations are not valuable workproduct. Visual communication is [...]
Slide Design: Picture This
Slide Design: Picture This Seeing is believing - we've all heard that before. However, its truer and more literal than one might guess. We've discussed the effect that images have on memory, but what about their effect on persuasion? The Picture Superiority Effect states that concepts are more likely to be remembered experientially when presented [...]
Hmmmm…. (P)Interesting….
Hmmmm.... (P)Interesting.... We've been a little quiet around here lately, but not to worry, everything's just been going so well we haven't had time to write. No complaints! We'll be back shortly, with more posts on persuasion, presentation skills and slide design. Check back next week! If you need some distraction and great design in [...]
