{"id":274,"date":"2015-10-15T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqlkover.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2017-08-16T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:21:44","slug":"presentation-design-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/presentation-design-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation Design – Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I gave a session on the SQL Server Days<\/a> about the new features for business intelligence in SQL Server 2016. I have always found that the design of the slide deck matters and this time I was fortunate enough to have the assistance of 356labs<\/a>, a presentation design agency founded by SQL Server MVP Boris Hristov<\/a>\u00a0(@BorisHristov<\/span><\/a>). I\u2019m not going to talk about why the design of your slides matters \u2013 even for technical sessions \u2013 or how good Boris is in his job, others have already done that for me:<\/p>\n

Your presentation design matters more than you think<\/a>\u00a0by William Durkin<\/a> (@sql_williamd<\/a>)<\/li>\n
356labs \u2013 Presentation Design for Technical Presentations<\/a>\u00a0by Catherine Wilhelmsen<\/a>\u00a0(@cathrinew<\/span><\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What I\u2019m going to do is show the feedback that 356labs gave me on my initial draft. Here\u2019s my first version of the deck:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s the final version I gave on the SQL Server Days:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/onedrive.live.com\/embed?cid=24D0E79A7FD977DA&resid=24D0E79A7FD977DA%21986&authkey=AAdAPThXiUWWEfo&em=2\" width=\"402\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nFeel free to browse both versions and to play a game of spot the differences \ud83d\ude42 \nI\u2019ll give a quick summary. After the feedback from 356labs, the following was changed:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>some of the sponsor logo\u2019s were replaced by more high-resolution images<\/li>\n<li>in a lot of slides, objects were moved, changed in size or aligned. Most of the time to give more space and let the objects \u201cbreathe\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>some redundant objects were removed, such as the bar on the bottom<\/li>\n<li>colours were used more consistently. Notice how each chapter has its own colour now and that it reflects on the colour of certain objects in the slides.<\/li>\n<li>animations and transitions were added to give a more natural flow to the presentation<\/li>\n<li>screenshots of code had to be replaced with texboxes containing the actual code and colouring the code along the SSMS colour scheme. This was a great tip, since screenshots tend to make the code more blurry.<\/li>\n<li>the demo slide had a make-over<\/li>\n<li>content was dropped to fit the presentation in a one hour time slot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRegarding the last item: 356labs really teached me that you don\u2019t have to show everything on the slides. If you have for example 12 changes for MDS, only show the 3 most important changes. Include the other 9 in the notes and talk about them during the presentation. People can always download the slide deck later on and read the notes. This really helps in reducing content on overcrowded slides.<\/p>\nAlso note that all of the content in the final version was also already present in the first draft. The design is just more clear and focused now and it really helped me in successfully delivering my session. Given more time, Boris probably would have made more (drastic) changes. You can take a look at his portfolio to see what I mean and more specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/356labs.com\/portfolio\/sqlsaturday-430-sofia\/\">this one<\/a>\u00a0which is how he really believes presentation design should be done. This is his personal deck from the recent SQLSaturday in Sofia. \nAnyway, I\u2019m really pleased with the end result and from now on I\u2019m going to pay even more attention to the design of my slides.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently I gave a session on the SQL Server Days about the new features for business intelligence in SQL Server 2016. I have always found that the design of the slide deck matters and this time I was fortunate enough to have the assistance of 356labs, a presentation design agency founded by SQL Server MVP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[90,89,88,19],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-356labs","tag-design","tag-presenting","tag-sql-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlkover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}