Simple slides

- When you're making a presentation…you have many tools for creating a slide deck…But you'll always hear from me,…my overriding rule is to keep them simple.…Remember that your audience has not come…to read your slides.…They've come to see and hear and interact with you.…You know, body language, tone of voice, things like that.…In fact, if they can get the gist of your talk…by reading your slides,…you might as well do everyone a favor…and skip the meeting and just mail them a report.…I have some good examples of simple slides…and what's fun is they're from my own company, LinkedIn…at our Content Week earlier this year.…

This slide deck, LinkedIn has a pre-designed slide deck…that's used throughout the company.…It's based on the typeface Source Sans Pro.…I'll get back to that in a few minute.…But even working from templates can be tricky…if you're not thinking simple.…This deck was put together by my colleague, Morty Golding.…He did a very good job of it.…He was very sensitive to typography…and to rhythm and to pacing and especially to simplicity.…