The Big Fish Experience by Kenny Nguyen

Author:Kenny Nguyen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2016-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Distractions

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We have seen hundreds of presenters who use transitions and animation that eventually work against them by becoming distractions from the message. To prevent this, ask yourself two questions.

IS THIS TOO MUCH?

Let’s say you have five design elements on a slide: a title and two pieces of text each surrounded by a box. You want to animate each element, one after the other. This doesn’t sound too bad, but let’s say you do this for 20 slides. So five animated elements multiplied by 20 slides equals 100 animated pieces in your presentation. That’s too much. If you want people to pay attention to your talk but you have 100 animated elements behind you, realize that their attention will be drawn from what you are saying to the distractions behind you. Use animation sparingly and carefully. It is very easy to visually overload the audience.

The same goes for transitions. Do not use a transition for every slide. Review your presentation and make sure that the focus is on what you are trying to communicate and not on how your slides swoosh from one to the next.

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