1. Design Principles for PowerPoint

2. What is Multimedia?
Text
Graphics
Sounds
Animations
Video

3. Effective Visual Aids
Help audience
Help speaker
Add clarity

4. Four Design Principles
Proximity
Group related items
Alignment
Every element should have a visual connection
Repetition
Repeat color, shape, texture, space
Contrast
If not the same, make them very different

5. Proximity
The principle of proximity states that you group related items together.
Purpose
To organize information
To lead visual appeal
To lead your eyes

6. Hsin-Te Yeh No Proximity ABC Company (970) 123-4567
111 Happy Road Greeley, CO

7. Proximity Hsin-Te Yeh ABC Company 111 Happy Road (970) 123-4567
Greeley, CO

8. What to Avoid? (proximity)
Avoid too many separate elements on one page.
Don’t create relationships with elements that don’t belong together.

9. Alignment
The principle of alignment states that nothing should be placed on the page arbitrarily.
Every item should have a visual connection with something else on the page.

10. Alignment Styles

11. Hsin-Te Yeh No Alignment ABC Company (970) 123-4567
111 Happy Road Greeley, CO

12. Alignment Hsin-Te Yeh ABC Company 111 Happy Road (970) 123-4567
Greeley, CO

13. What to Avoid? (Alignment)
Avoid using more than one text alignment on the page.
Don’t center some text and right/left-align other text
Try to break away from center alignment if there is a paragraph.

14. Repetition
The principle of repetition states that you repeat some aspect of the design throughout the entire piece.
The repeated item could be a bullet, font, line, color, design element, format, etc.

15. Hsin-Te Yeh Hsin-Te Yeh (970) 123-4567 Little Repetition
More Repetition
Hsin-Te Yeh
ABC Company
111 Happy Road
Greeley, CO
(970)
Hsin-Te Yeh
ABC Company
111 Happy Road
Greeley, CO
(970)

16. What to Avoid? (Repetition)
Avoid repeating the same element so much on the page that it becomes annoying or over-whelming.

17. Contrast
The principle of contrast states that if two items are not exactly the same, then make them different.
Be BOLD about it!

18. How Can You Create Contrast?
Large type and small type (size)
A thin line with a thick line (weight)
Combination of fonts
With color – cool vs warm color

19. Contrast Examples

20. What to Avoid? (Contrast)
Low level of contrast
Black & brown, red and pink
Slightly different weights
Similar typefaces

21. Typography
Two categories of typeface
Serif
Sans Serif

22. Serif
Serifs are the little “feet” or brushstrokes that we see on each letter
Assist the reader’s eye movement
Good for body text
Most textbooks use a Serif typeface
Palatino, Times, Garamond, etc.

23. Sans Serif Without Serifs Monoweight Good for headings
Same weight for each letter.
Antique Olive, Franklin, Gothic, Arial, etc.
Good for headings

24. What to Avoid? (Typography)
More than 2 fonts on a page
ALL CAPS (except for emphasis)

25. What Type of Font?
2001 PT3 Summer Institute

26. What Design Techniques?

27. Level of Font Usage

28. Rule 166 (177)
1 main idea or concept
6 (7) points
6 (7) words

29. Content is Key!
Content
Organization
Visual design

30. Organizing Content Highlight key facts Determine main message
Heading
Select supporting facts
Main points and sub-points
Describe needed graphics

31. Hope you know how to design your PowerPoint Slides Now!
Can’t make your own anthologies or collections of articles, etc.
Consumables are workbooks, exercises, standardized tests, test booklets, answer sheets, etc.