Slide Design

1. Please see the notes for each slide. The presentation has animations and you should view it as a slide show rather than in editing mode. Slide Design More to it than meets the eye? Viswa Viswanathan Stillman School of Business

2. Approaches to Listening • Sponge approach • Absorb everything • Make detailed notes • Passive approach • “Panning for Gold” approach • Separate wheat from chaff • Actively look for useful matter and organize material as you listen • Active approach BEFORE

3. Approaches to Listening • Sponge approach • Absorb everything • Make detailed notes • Passive approach • “Panning for Gold” approach • Separate wheat from chaff • Actively look for useful matter and organize material as you listen • Active approach BEFORE

4. Sponge Panning for Gold

5. US Resource Use • The United States uses: • 42% of all aluminum produced worldwide • 31% of all the petroleum • 29% of all the phosphate • 27% of all the copper • 27% of the nitrogen • 25% of the zinc • Approximately 30% of all resources worldwide BEFORE Alley et al, “How the Design of Headlines in Presentation Slides Affects Audience Retention,” Technical Communication, vol. 53, no. 4 (May 2006), pp. 225-234.

6. US 5% of World Population 30% of World Resource Use Alley et al, “How the Design of Headlines in Presentation Slides Affects Audience Retention,” Technical Communication, vol. 53, no. 4 (May 2006), pp. 225-234.

7. The mission of the Stillman School of Business is to enrich the life of each student through a nationally recognized educational experience that is inspired by innovative teaching, supported by applied research and guided by a values-centric curriculum. BEFORE

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10. Crème de la crème Less than 5% worldwide

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12. Stillman Core Values

13. Attributes of a Critical Thinker • Awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions to pose to subject matter • Ability to ask and answer critical questions at appropriate times • Desire to actively use the critical questions BEFORE

14. Critical Questions Awareness Ability to ask and answer Desire to use Critical Thinker

15. BEFORE

16. Reducing sulfur dioxide emissions from coal power plants Pre-combustion methods Combustion methods Post-combustion methods Alley, 2002, The Craft of Scientific Presentations, Springer

17. John says “Don’t let Darius organize your conference. I assigned him some tasks recently and he let me down. He is also very disorganized.

18. Reason Assumption type Assumption … we assume that failure in the said task is a good predictor of failure in organizing a conference Let John down Supports conclusion only if …

19. Which we probably agree with … Reason Assumption type Assumption … we assume that being disorganized makes one unsuitable to organize a conference Supports conclusion only if … Disorganized … we assume that John’s notion of “disorganized” is reasonable Supports conclusion only if … This, we might want to clarify …

20. Don’t Make Me Think Krug, S. 2005, Don’t make me think: A commonsense approach to web usability, New Riders Pres, 2nd ed.

21. Document Layout

22. Contrast

23. Wimpy contrast Stronger Really strong

24. Repetition • Repeats • Typeface • Bullets • Indents • Spacing • Alignments

25. Repetition

26. Alignment Lacks consistency in alignment. Can distract Works well despite contrasting alignment. Why?

27. Alignment

28. Proximity

29. Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity

30. Source: The Non-designer’s design book, by Robin Williams, Peachpit press, 1994