What does the Research say?The stuff that underpins Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations

Geoff Brown & Viv McWaters

What we see ...

What if ‘business-as-usual’ in presentation design was applied to the real world?

We would see this ...

Instead of this ...

2 Parts

Part 1 : The Dans

DanDan

Dan

Part 2 : The Johns

Dr John

Story

Story Visually Wired

Story

What can we learn from Dan?

Dan Pink

What can we learn from Dan?

Whole-Minded approach

Emotions

Dan PinkDan Roam

What can we learn from Dan?

But I’m not visual!

Pictures like these …

Dan Pink Dan RoamDan Heath

What can we learn from Dan?

s i c k yt

to overcome …

Curse of Knowledge

So, Keep it …

Simple

?

Story

Story

Find the Core

Find the Core Paint a Picture

Story

Find the Core Paint a Picture Emotional

Story

Curse of Knowledge

Story

Visually Wired

What we learn from John?

The Doctor

There is hope …

Professor John Sweller’s RuleWe cannot listen & read at the same time

10%

We remember 10% of what we hear

65% We remember 10% of what we hear

So, if you want

Apply these …

Professor John Sweller’s RuleWe cannot listen & read at the same time

Remember this picture …

Thankyou!

Part 1 Slides by Geoff Brown & Viv McWaters

Part 2 Slides some are adapted by Geoff Brown from Garr Reynolds – www.presentation.com

All images from iStockphoto & Google Images

Slides 3, 4, 5, 41, 42, 53-56 adapted from a Garr Reynolds slideshow - http://www.slideshare.net/garr/brain-rules-for-presenters