| slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations: The Art and Science of Presentation Design |  | Author: Nancy Duarte
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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ISBN: 0596522347
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Publication Date: August 7, 2008
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 The cure for death by PowerPoint September 16, 2008
M. Donohoe (UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Comparing favourably with Presentation Zen Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) this book is a superb guide to improving your presentations. Beautifully designed and presented (but would you expect anything less) the book takes a holistic view of presentation planning, design and delivery.
The author is the founder of her own presentation design business with a client list that reads like a who's who of the business world. Accordingly, samples of some of these presentations are included in the book.
Aside from practical pointers, this book will serve as an inspiration to presentation creators everywhere!
All users of presentation software should read this! August 29, 2008
Ian Smith (Ilkley, UK)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is indispensable reading for anyone who has to communicate using presentations and PowerPoint (or Keynote or Impress or whatever). Nancy Duarte lays out what she has learned from many years of experience producing professional presentations for the likes of ex VP Al Gore. Her "how to" approach works very well indeed. For example, she doesn't just say "make use of contrast" but shows five different patterns for using contrast in practice, illustrated with simple diagrams depicting contrasts in size, shape, shade, colour and proximity. This book makes advanced slide design accessible to anyone - if you present to other people, you must read this book!
Worth your time and money October 9, 2008
Darren Osadchuk (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations," by Nancy Duarte is a book that will change the way you think about your presentations. Almost anybody who has ever had to deliver a presentation would benefit in some way from reading this book.
The structure of the book follows the process that you'll ideally use in the course of developing a presentation, from coming up with the presentation content itself to developing the slides. At every step of the way, Duarte explains not only how you should create your presentations (e.g. how graphs and charts should be presented), but also why your information should be presented that way. Following Duarte's advice results in a slide deck that supports and enhances your presentation, rather than having the deck detract from or (even worse) BE the presentation. The result is a presentation where there is actually a good reason for the existence and content of each slide.
You might be thinking that you're not a designer, so you won't be able to create a presentation as good as some of the examples highlighted in the book, but you don't need to be a designer to improve your presentations. The book does cover some of the fundamentals of design (color theory, fonts, etc.), and does so in an approachable way, so the non-designers in the crowd (which is most of us) will get at least some information about design fundamentals to help you improve your presentations.
A tiny nitpick is that I would have liked to see even more examples of "good" slides in the book - or even better, more examples of bad slides being turned into good ones. The case studies are great, but many of them are accompanied by an often full-page photo of the presenter. I'd have preferred to see that space given over to more images of the slides.
Overall, I found this to be an excellent book that will easily and immediately reward the time you spend reading it.
clear, concise, inspirational January 31, 2010
treasure (London, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this book because I use Powerpoint in my teaching presentations and needed a guiding hand to put together an informative visual alternative to boring bullet points. Duarte's book is very easy to read but feels like a master-class in design & presentation. She clearly knows her subject and each section presents a new topic in easy to digest format. LOTS of great advice - whatever your level of expertise - & great examples illustrate her points. She's revolutionized my approach to teaching aids. Thank you. A Great buy.
Very, very good book June 20, 2009
Mr. P. Labrow (Stockport, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you think you can't learn anything about creating a presentation, think again. If you think presentations are dull, think again. This book really does offer an expert insight into something many business people do (very badly) every day.
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