Author:Robin Williams Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0321656210 Availability:
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These days, it's not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations--anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You're not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do?
Enter Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designer's designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer's Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography. In The Non-Designer's Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer's series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as applied to digital presentations, and adds four more principles specific to clear communication with slides. Whether you work with a Mac or PC, PowerPoint or Keynote, let Robin guide you, in her signature, light-hearted style, through the entire process of creating a presentation--from using the right software to organizing your ideas to designing effective, beautiful slides that won't put your audience to sleep. In this essential guide to presentation design, you'll learn:
What makes a good presentation or a bad one
How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation
Four principles of designing effective presentations
Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly
An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules...that you should totally ignore
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Robin Williams Gets It. Totally.:
I have been a fan of Robin Williams since I first read Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) several years ago. Robin understand what it is to simplify the discreet components of design to make them understandable for the novice. In this book, she applies those principles to PowerPoint. As a conference speaker and college professor/instructional designer I have seen some pretty awful PPTs. It doesn't take much to improve them. Like slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great... more info
Finally, a presentation book that fills the void:
Most presentation books focus on how to present as a presenter and how to "not design" powerpoint slides. This book finally provides the non-designers out here, myself included, how to build great looking slides that also enhance the presentation. First, I must admit to being a huge fan of the Non-Designer's Design Book and the Non-Designer's Web Design Book. I think they are two of the best books for us designer deficient business people out there. Now, this book does the same thing for presentation... more info
Good but redundant:
I agree with the other reviewers that this is a good book with lots of practical advice. The only serious drawback is that so much of the information is redundant with the author's other big seller Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition). There is basically only one or two chapters worth of new material here if you have read her Non-Designer's Design Book. If you are thinking about designing just for presentations and have not read the other book grab this one for sure but if you have it consider... more info
Packs in presentation rules - and tells when to ignore them:
The Non-Designer's Presentation Book: Principles for Effective Presentation Design explains the four basic principles of good design as applied to digital presentations and adds four more specific to slides. From how to plan, arrange and outline a presentation to tips for charts, graphs and video, this packs in presentation rules - and tells when to ignore them.
