Some Rules for Making a Presentation

Here's a 10-minute Powerpoint talk with the essentials.

Golden rule

Human attention is very limited. Don't cram too much information, either in each slide, or in the whole talk. Avoid details: they won't be remembered anyway.

Organization

Mechanics

Text

Illustrations

Results

References

(c) 2003-2005 by Mihai Budiu. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Feel free to use it for any purpose, including commercial, as long as you properly quote me.