Section III. Four principles of visual Presentation Design

Design the Slides

Now that you’ve got your presentation organized, your text is crisp and crystal clear, you’ve got an idea of relevant graphics and backgrounds you’d like to use, you understand where you might want to use animation appropriately, and you’ve figured out the plot of your presentation story, you’re ready to actually design it.

This section reiterates the four basic design principles I first codified in The Non-Designer’s Design Book and shows you how they apply to presentation design.

Four principles of visual presentation design

The four principles of design that I first codified and explained in The Non-Designer’s Design Book apply equally well to presentation ...

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