How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon

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[waturiuiuiuizifa]

I lost my father to powerpoint last year and was so touched by your talk. Thank you for spreading awareness ❤

[keeganfreiheit]

I have never been more inspired to make a PowerPoint

[NimTheHuman]

Key points from this video:

2:32 Examples of bad slides.
3:46 "90% of what you said was gone in 30 seconds" if your slides looked like these bad examples.
6:15 One message per slide!
7:20 "1 + 1 = 0" -> "Redundancy Effect" -> If what you're saying (verbal script) is also written on your slides, your audience will get 0 info.
8:05 Purpose of your slides: short, sweet bit of text and an image.
8:36 Your eyes focus on moving objects, signaling colours (red/orange/yellow), contrasting objects, and big objects.
9:32 Slide title is often the biggest object, but rarely the more important.
10:26 The biggest parts of your slides should be the most important part of your presentation.
10:40 U S E C O N T R A S T to control your audience's attention.
10:46 Don't use light backgrounds. Use dark backgrounds and light text! Light background steal too much attention (e.g., from the speaker).
14:12 Your brain needs to "count" if there are 7 or more objects, but not if there are only 6 or fewer. Your brain can simply "see" the 6 objects.
14:42 Counting takes 500% more cognitive resources than just seeing.
15:40 The magic number is 6. The max number of objects per slide should be 6.
18:28 The number of slides is rarely the problem. The problem is often the number of objects per slide.


Dang! I wish I had come across this video YEARS ago.
Poorly designed slides are everywhere!
Super useful info. David is amazing!

[tenzingsamdup]

Didnt see anyone commenting on this, but the crossword game at the end was a great way to re-engage with the crowd and summarise all the main points.

[georgewashington]

Imagine the akwardness of the next person to present with a powerpoint

[dddmmm]

The massive problem with this approach, and I never saw it being addressed, is that in most companies powerpoint are not really used for presentations only, but really used to meet TWO objectives: 1) As a presentation method, as the was describing it, but also 2) As a self contained, self explanatory report, a repository of information, which can be read and understood on its own. And that is the problem!! These are two very different things which we try to accomplish with the same product. Most powerpoints are horrible because we build then as reports which can be sent beforehand by email to people and then understood by them just by reading it. There are clearly cases when a presentation is just a presentation, but 90% of the cases in big companies, if a powerpoint is built like he instructs in this video, it will be rejected by managers and coworkers simply because it cannot be read.

[codebasics]

Very practical actionable tips indeed. Great job.

[ThePooj]

This should be mandatory training at EVERY company.

[turbolaze]

The 6 Principles

One message (per slide)
No text Sentences
SIZE
Contrast - to steer focus
SIX or less objects (per slide)
Dark background

your welcome

[reinpogo]

My teacher showed this to the class today since we are going to make presentations about strange organisms (Biology). After he showed us the video he removed the restriction of 5 slides to unlimited (now it's max 10 minutes instead). This video really did a lot for me and I will use this knowledge for all my presentations in the future! Thanks alot :)

[conniekeyse]

I came here to watch because Alex Hormozi mentioned "Death by PowerPoint TEDx Talk" in his video. This is a great video - very informative and entertaining. Thank you, David JP Phillips!

[tomekorzechowski]

I'm working as an instructor for 18 years- this presentation is epic- completely changed my perspective, i have to change all my presentations.

[dishachakraborty]

The more I hear him speak the more I love him! Absolutely amazing David Phillips!

[arvk]

Lovely! I remebered to have used 112 slides in a conference to finish my talk in eight minutes flat - very lucid. I think I had followed all these principles just by intuition! Hmmm feel proud.

[DapperDilla]

As a corporate trainer/instructor, I circle back around to this message a few times throughout the year....not only to serve as a reminder of how so many fall into these traps, but to make sure I don't get succumb to the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint". Thanks for this!

[askvanita]

I came in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. The presenter,
David JP Phillips did a good job highlighting how we can get better with our PowerPoint
skills. Overall I am glad I spent 20 minutes on this TEDx Talks.
Thank you again for sharing on YouTube.  One
constructive criticism I must offer is that the message could have been
delivered in a shorter duration.

[ewakrawczyk]

I use it in the university course I teach. The best guidance for preparing presentations. Delivered in a witty way that my students remember the rules forever! 🙂

[sallylee]

More people really need to see this video. Not only did you highlight what makes a good ppt presentation, you also showed that your rules work at the same time.

[ajaym]

The speaker ... David JP Phillips gave the finest presentation I've ever seen. It's worth the 20 mins. I'm not talking about the presentation he showed on the screen in this video. I'm talking about his presentation and speaking skills

[InnocentiusLacrimosa]

I was on your workshops some years back in Sweden. It was just great and much that you talked about just rubbed into my presentations for the coming years. With time everyone just develops their own style of presenting that they are comfortable with - sometimes the developed things work fine, and sometimes they do not. Just came by this now again and found out that a bit of a refresher is good for me too. Anyhow, my sincere thanks for helping me become a better presenter all those years back. That skill has brought good things with it during my career.