Key points from this video: 2:32 Examples of bad slides. 3:46 "90% of what you said was gone in 30 seconds" if your slides looked like these bad examples. 6:15 One message per slide! 7:20 "1 + 1 = 0" -> "Redundancy Effect" -> If what you're saying (verbal script) is also written on your slides, your audience will get 0 info. 8:05 Purpose of your slides: short, sweet bit of text and an image. 8:36 Your eyes focus on moving objects, signaling colours (red/orange/yellow), contrasting objects, and big objects. 9:32 Slide title is often the biggest object, but rarely the more important. 10:26 The biggest parts of your slides should be the most important part of your presentation. 10:40 U S E C O N T R A S T to control your audience's attention. 10:46 Don't use light backgrounds. Use dark backgrounds and light text! Light background steal too much attention (e.g., from the speaker). 14:12 Your brain needs to "count" if there are 7 or more objects, but not if there are only 6 or fewer. Your brain can simply "see" the 6 objects. 14:42 Counting takes 500% more cognitive resources than just seeing. 15:40 The magic number is 6. The max number of objects per slide should be 6. 18:28 The number of slides is rarely the problem. The problem is often the number of objects per slide. Dang! I wish I had come across this video YEARS ago. Poorly designed slides are everywhere! Super useful info. David is amazing!
Just sent a link to the video to my two boys - and then followed it up with an email with your comment pasted into it, Many, many thanks for going to the trouble to create the list for us.
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
It would certainly make a specific MSSQL instructor at SuperUSers in Denmark understand what I was constantly trying to communicate to him. Not that it was his fault - it was Microsoft's because the instructor was only going through preprepared slides.
I came in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. The presenter, David JP Phillips did a good job highlighting how we can get better with our PowerPoint skills. Overall I am glad I spent 20 minutes on this TEDx Talks. Thank you again for sharing on TH-cam. One constructive criticism I must offer is that the message could have been delivered in a shorter duration.
Same here, watching someone talking 20 minutes about Powerpoint presentation. Wasnt really paying attention first 5 min, and then saved this to my favorites. Glad that I stayed.
The massive problem with this approach, and I never saw it being addressed, is that in most companies powerpoint are not really used for presentations only, but really used to meet TWO objectives: 1) As a presentation method, as he was describing it, but also 2) As a self contained, self explanatory report, a repository of information, which can be read and understood on its own. And that is the problem!! These are two very different things which we try to accomplish with the same product. Most powerpoints are horrible because we build then as reports which can be sent beforehand by email to people and then understood by them just by reading it. There are clearly cases when a presentation is just a presentation, but 90% of the cases in big companies, if a powerpoint is built like he instructs in this video, it will be rejected by managers and coworkers simply because it cannot be read.
Simply create two. One as visual aid and one as Infodeck. Start with the info deck, make a copy, throw the 95% percent, add size, contrast, multiple slides etc.. bam you're done.
My teacher showed this to the class today since we are going to make presentations about strange organisms (Biology). After he showed us the video he removed the restriction of 5 slides to unlimited (now it's max 10 minutes instead). This video really did a lot for me and I will use this knowledge for all my presentations in the future! Thanks alot :)
+David Phillips Dear David, fantastic meta-presentation - I will definitely use your great tips in the future. One question: Why do you recommend 6 objects as the maximum, when in fact you show a slide containing 5 (without titles as a 6th object)?
@@DavidJPPhillips Aren't these tips targeted for PowerPoint used for corporate presentation? In particular, about the use of dark background, for teaching or lecturing purposes the teacher do not need to be the 'highlight' of the class, but the contents of his or her teaching do. So white background actually serves the purpose well. What do you think?
I came here to watch because Alex Hormozi mentioned "Death by PowerPoint TEDx Talk" in his video. This is a great video - very informative and entertaining. Thank you, David JP Phillips!
As a corporate trainer/instructor, I circle back around to this message a few times throughout the year....not only to serve as a reminder of how so many fall into these traps, but to make sure I don't get succumb to the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint". Thanks for this!
The speaker ... David JP Phillips gave the finest presentation I've ever seen. It's worth the 20 mins. I'm not talking about the presentation he showed on the screen in this video. I'm talking about his presentation and speaking skills
I use it in the university course I teach. The best guidance for preparing presentations. Delivered in a witty way that my students remember the rules forever! 🙂
I was on your workshops some years back in Sweden. It was just great and much that you talked about just rubbed into my presentations for the coming years. With time everyone just develops their own style of presenting that they are comfortable with - sometimes the developed things work fine, and sometimes they do not. Just came by this now again and found out that a bit of a refresher is good for me too. Anyhow, my sincere thanks for helping me become a better presenter all those years back. That skill has brought good things with it during my career.
Great advice but 95% of presenters are too lazy to even learn the content of their speech/talk so they'll never do this because they seem to think of PowerPoint as their cue cards.
Yep. That's the main problem: teachers don't really know their subject matter. Ironically, if they'd do some research, and put it in their powerPoint, then they'd actually KNOW the stuff, from just seeing it year after year.
More people really need to see this video. Not only did you highlight what makes a good ppt presentation, you also showed that your rules work at the same time.
Lovely! I remebered to have used 112 slides in a conference to finish my talk in eight minutes flat - very lucid. I think I had followed all these principles just by intuition! Hmmm feel proud.
Just came across David while watching his fabulous interview with Nathanial Bibby on Monday Night Live and have now watched all his Ted Talks which are fantastic - this one is the best - I never understood why anyone used Power Point at all as it always seemed to make presentations all the more boring - now I understand!
After I saw how long the video was I was going to move on, but he kept my attention the entire time and every word was of value! Can’t wait to apply these best practices.
I have never been so intrigued by a presenter like David. The way to present and really get the combination of total facts and experience is unbeatable.
should be required viewing for every corp. marketing team... and every one else who needs to impart important information.... thank you David JP Phillips
I like this TED talk because it comes in handy for my public speaking class! It's important to make sure the audience is interested and that you keep their attention until the end of your speech.
Somehow with the lights in the background, it looks like Van Gogh is gonna explain one of his paintings but starts talking about power point instead. But seriously this is a really good video, i learned a lot from it. :)
I have more often than not felt the "death by powerpoint" in several classroom and orientation settings. A breath of fresh air to have someone address this topic.
This was required viewing in my nurse practitioner doctorate program. I never knew there was a correct way of designing a PowerPoint. After listening to your talk, it all makes sense. Why allow the PowerPoint presentation to upstage the presenter? I have learned a lot in your 20 minutes TEDx Talk. Thank you.
Wow!! this is so refreshing.. and can't agree more with the speaker when he says "organizations have this thing where they give you a limit of the total slide count" - very relatable.
1- one message per one slide 2- simple pictures and small texts 3- The most important part is to be the biggest one 4- brightening and fading 5- A dark background is easier for your eyes 6- The magical number 6 7- don't disturb the audience with sentences if you want to speak
David, I saw your presentation at 2am in the morning and only hours before submitting a final major presentation for a global conference. I watched your video once, then the second time took notes. It transformed my entire presentation which after I compared it to my other peer presenters, thought it was not as 'expert' as theirs. Well, low and behold!!!! The majority of the audience loved it because they could actually concentrate on what I was saying (the Presenter) and engaged them in meaningful listening. I have since passed it on to several of my colleagues as well as a few folks who attended the conference. Your presentation was fantastic! Thanks for sharing! More success to you!
+DF Guardian Thanks for your kind words! And well played - it takes some guts and skill to change something that close to the delivery. So happy it worked out brilliantly!!!
This talk changed not only how I teach undergraduates to use PowerPoint in our capstone history course but also how I use PowerPoint in my own teaching.
As always (i have seen David before) the best presentation. There is nothing like this presenter and the skills he has in the subject. I recommend everyone to visit any of he's sessions.
Finally, someone said something about the Powerpoint presentations that is of a use!!! Thank you so much David Phillips, I''ll definitely use these tips from now on.
Thank you for that amazing talk. I've just been through my latest presentation and trashed all the bad parts which actually took time to put in. I hadn't realised how many bad habits I had acquired from other presentations which you think are essential. So much easier to see the information now because it is no longer cluttered with rubbish. How did I not see how bad it was? Doh! A thank you from my future audiences.
Great talk. In my experience, Powerpoint is no longer used just as a tool for creating presentations. It's also useful for brainstorming and collaboration since it lets you get ideas down quickly and refine them later. The danger comes when the two are mixed and work that was never intended to be presented ends up on screen.
mixing psychology with anything we do is always genius and i love it... i really enjoyed this and thank you for showing me how to implement these strategies.
I can't thank you enough for this video. It came just at the right time for me. I was hired to do a presentation and wrote it. After watching your video I re-did it and it was much better, of course, and was extremely successful. Thank you.
David, I hope the message reaches every presenter in the World! This is the only knowledge anyone need. PowerPoint can't do the job. Love it when you state that PowerPoint is the VISUAL AID! Great presentation, David! :-)
If anyone's considering getting an MBA, don't. This guy provided more value in 20 minutes than almost any of my classes did in 6 weeks. Professor youtube knows all. Just gotta find content like this.
Thank you! In Catholic theology, there are the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy which guide a person to doing the good for others. This presentation should be added as one of the corporate works of mercy! I am sharing this talk as a good-will gesture to the world....or at least my facebook readers.
My first time making a PowerPoint presentation in high school, and my teacher told us not to have sentences but only have pictures and a few words per slide. His teaching has never failed me yet :)
@David I always hated the white background and always persisted with it thinking "what would people think otherwise?". I mean if we have blackboard with white chalk the best way to convey message, why should the powerpoint be different? After seeing your video, I have put all doubts to rest. Changed the color of my slides to black background. I am going for a major pitching of my product. Thanks for this video. I changed my slides from good to WOW.
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
This is one of the best and most insightful videos on visualization I've seen. Your presentation did not only exhibit mastery of PowerPoint Presentation, it made it difficult for anyone not to understand and focus on the presentation even if the person deliberately decided not to. Many thanks for enhancing my PowerPoint skills.
I came here to learn how to protect myself against a sentient rogue power point presentation that's been after me for four months. This didn't help and I'm running low on ammo and places to run to.
I had just finished writing a Power Point before watching this. *hangs head in shame* All the more I have to say is that I hope the time I just spent re-doing the whole blasted thing is worth it.
The dramatic title caught my eye but the contents are just magnificent! David explain it in an easily understand and in depth information needed for presentation way. It's so super helpful, thanks David!
I had just finished writing a Power Point before watching this. hangs head in shame All the more I have to say is that I hope the time I just spent re-doing the whole blasted thing is worth it.
So David, your gem for me was at the 12.50 mark when you paused and stamped out one the major, major point.....You are the presenter, the communicator, and the screen (PowerPoint ) is just a prop. This was done quietly but has huge resonance with me. We deliver communication skills to a wide variety of candidates from Corporations to students....we hone them.... not Powerpoint...don't abrogate to it.. Enjoyed all your points but usually try to use the Power of 3 not 6!!!
+Talkagility Thanks for picking that one out. Its absolutely one of the most crucial bits from the seminar. The PowerPoint is one of many spices/visual aids you may use to enhance your message. Its not your message nor presentation. You always are.
Wrong David. You are not the presentation. The content is the presentation, whether it comes from you or from your visuals. 70% of us are visual learners. The slides are not just a prop.
I have to disagree with you Ray. Have you watched many Ted Talks? Most of them don't use PowerPoint or visuals. The only prop is the presenter and the way they convey a message. The Ted Talks are excellent and I would love to have the ability to narrate a message as well as they do.
The content is the content. And it doesn't exist (as far as the audience is concerned) until brought to life by the presenter, who should him/herself be the chief "visual".
Thank you for this effective presentation on effective presentations! I plan to use the video in training my students in speech and visual aid usage here at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan! (sister school to Chalmers in Sweden BTW) Great ideas get around!
I love this. I use slides for Purchasing Training and I have been trying to clean up my presentations, and give them a sleeker, more polished feel. Since lots of words are sometimes needed when teaching, I took my old slides and made them in to a manual that I handed out after my presentation. I used every one of these tips in my new slides and the feedback so far has been awesome.
I’ve only just been introduced to you following a presentation skills course that was put together by my employer - you’re delivery explains everything of what you say and I will be watching more of your videos as motivation and inspiration. Thank you !!
Gotta agree with you on the darker bg and the smaller title.. Finally i was not killed by powerpoint at a TeD Ex presentation, Now that was interesting and well performed really goes to show that the tool is not the presentation u are.. well said mate! This was truly Soulful to all of us who suffer viewing and making that dreadful powerpoint on daily basis.
Nice presentation! Ive already known some of these points and used them at school. My teachers really liked my presentations. Nevertheless they always taught us the wrong way to do presentations and did them wrong themselve... Strange
Hi David. Lovely, clear and simple illustration of why so many people mis-use PowerPoint, thank you. To fully understand the arguments you were making however I have some queries: 1) Why if SIX is the maximum number of points you recommend having on a slide, do you use an example of 7 vs 5 balls? Why not prove the point by showing 6 balls? What you’ve shown me is that 5 is easier to see than 7, which you rightly point out we need to count. 2) When discussing the real-life example slide of the features of the Supercar Exterior, you mention 16 objects. I can see on the slide either 12 items (13 if you include the heading) or a total of 23 words. To what were you referring when you mention 16? 3) When explaining the benefits of reducing the number of items, you drop it down to 4 (Flat free tires, Xenon lights, New material and Aerodynamic). Again, if SIX is to maximum, why didn’t you show that in action? Many thanks Meredith
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :))
Pretty much covered some basic design principles in very simple way. Can't believe how many of my professors at college even after years of doing presentations still do all of these mistakes... white glaring backgrounds, more attention to titles than content, sentences, heck even paragraphs of text while professor is talking.. + almost no pictures most times. And this comes from a design college, and a professor who is like "design critic", yet he doesn't even understand basic concepts..
As someone who is horrible at lectures (I can never remember what people have said unless I make a lot of notes, but the moment I start writing a note I can't listen to the rest he's saying) I'm actually kinda glad college professors write entire sentences. Now I can look at the handouts when learning for the exams and figure out what I need to know. If they only use the PowerPoint as a visual aide, I would never be able to go back to something as easily as I can now... Unless the information they give is also written down somewhere, in which case I would strongly prefer this kind of presentation.
Different people use ppt differently. As a lecturer I show students the ppt in class but they know it's been designed as a conceptual overview and revision resource to be downloaded from the platform and perused at home: class showing is just a quick preview. Thus, some of these principles don't apply. My job is to map a territory and tell you the names of the places, so that you can dispense with me and just use Google from then on, and no self-respecting cartographer says "uh-oh, I've reached my limit of six place names to a map, better do a new map". We want to get a picture of the whole territory before zooming in on the detail.
I am a lowly Junior high school history teacher, and, perhaps because i have a challenging audience, my powerpoints are awesome. I'm the only teacher in my district that I know of that has 65'" big screens in his room. So that helps. I always use dark backgrounds, but, more than that, I try to not even use backgrounds. I use pictures as backgrounds. I use the picture first -- on the theory that people think in images -- and then, hit control + D and make a duplicate and then insert text and put in words on the image. One thing I require my students to do is to write down whatever words are underlined. The rest of the words are just for me to read, I try -- and succeed -- to write beautiful paragraphs for me to read, while they write down bits and parts of words that, when taken together, make a sentence that says the same thing, just with less words. Meanwhile, I use music. Mostly soundtracks from movies. War dramas seem to have the best music. Hans Zimmer for example makes anything seem important. Lots of images. Frequent changes. My typical chapter PPT has anywhere from 325 to 500 frames. Everyone is impressed with my PowerPoints. I've never seen anyone do them better. in fact, that's why I was on here hoping to find someone as good as me.
Robert Harrigan good job! Wish I had a teacher like you, and it in a good way, forces the students to focus in class because the presentation file will be too big to email! Brilliant!
David Philips made some great tips on how not to under deliver or over deliver PPT slides. Using these points will allow the audience to stay focused, remember the presentation and keep clear/concise.
Message v Medium! Cause of death all too often the human "presenter" and their social inability to articulate a poorly organised message. Don't judge a house by the wallpaper...
Amazing as fuck. This kind of videos deserves more than one like per person. So much disappointement when i didnt find any more videos by David JP Phillips, i thought this guy was a 'thing. Like, you should have your own show or something.
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :)))
The German language would have avoided this false expectation. "Wie man Tod durch Powerpoint vermeidet" vs "Wie man durch Powerpoint den Tod vermeidet" :-)
I thought I had powerpoint presentations down pat - and we've been training people for years on the need for succinct slides etc. but we are now excited to use some of the pointers we've learnt today and pass them on to others. Thank you.
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Key points from this video:
2:32 Examples of bad slides.
3:46 "90% of what you said was gone in 30 seconds" if your slides looked like these bad examples.
6:15 One message per slide!
7:20 "1 + 1 = 0" -> "Redundancy Effect" -> If what you're saying (verbal script) is also written on your slides, your audience will get 0 info.
8:05 Purpose of your slides: short, sweet bit of text and an image.
8:36 Your eyes focus on moving objects, signaling colours (red/orange/yellow), contrasting objects, and big objects.
9:32 Slide title is often the biggest object, but rarely the more important.
10:26 The biggest parts of your slides should be the most important part of your presentation.
10:40 U S E C O N T R A S T to control your audience's attention.
10:46 Don't use light backgrounds. Use dark backgrounds and light text! Light background steal too much attention (e.g., from the speaker).
14:12 Your brain needs to "count" if there are 7 or more objects, but not if there are only 6 or fewer. Your brain can simply "see" the 6 objects.
14:42 Counting takes 500% more cognitive resources than just seeing.
15:40 The magic number is 6. The max number of objects per slide should be 6.
18:28 The number of slides is rarely the problem. The problem is often the number of objects per slide.
Dang! I wish I had come across this video YEARS ago.
Poorly designed slides are everywhere!
Super useful info. David is amazing!
THANKS FOR SHARING!! :-)
Just sent a link to the video to my two boys - and then followed it up with an email with your comment pasted into it, Many, many thanks for going to the trouble to create the list for us.
@@lydiaoehling705 No problem, Lydia! :)
@@AntoineMaloney Glad I could help, Antoine! :)
Great summary!
I lost my father to powerpoint last year and was so touched by your talk. Thank you for spreading awareness ❤
wait how tf does someone die by powerpoint
@catherinelin8548 It was a joke I was making a joke.
My dad is alive and well.
@@Skwuushi Brutally
@@Skwuushi I was wondering the same 😂
@@Skwuushi its possible, powerpoint overworked them to death
I have never been more inspired to make a PowerPoint
Cause of death: Power Point
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
lol
Guess you don’t get any real work accomplished.
@@thisguy2973ouch!
The 6 Principles
One message (per slide)
No text Sentences
SIZE
Contrast - to steer focus
SIX or less objects (per slide)
Dark background
your welcome
*You're
Wow thanks. Seriously good input.
Why aren't there more people like you in the world? I swear, thanks for listing the 6 principles, it saved me a lot of time for my midterm reflection.
Thanks man, I was looking through the video for those points to help my final, cheers!
Thank you! I did not want to spend 20 minutes waiting to hear these point.
Imagine the akwardness of the next person to present with a powerpoint
Lol
Seriously, you feel like dying! And you can't do editing there and then! You know, i can ask for a reschedule! Or a different audience! Lol
It would certainly make a specific MSSQL instructor at SuperUSers in Denmark understand what I was constantly trying to communicate to him.
Not that it was his fault - it was Microsoft's because the instructor was only going through preprepared slides.
😂😂😂
Ironically that presentation was titled: 'Death By Awkward Embarrassment'.
I came in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. The presenter,
David JP Phillips did a good job highlighting how we can get better with our PowerPoint
skills. Overall I am glad I spent 20 minutes on this TEDx Talks.
Thank you again for sharing on TH-cam. One
constructive criticism I must offer is that the message could have been
delivered in a shorter duration.
@5++++×8+
Same here :) So happy I stayed
I was listening to it while driving. Towards the second half I actually quit driving and now I am in a hospital. Huh.
...and then they lived happly ever after.
Same here, watching someone talking 20 minutes about Powerpoint presentation. Wasnt really paying attention first 5 min, and then saved this to my favorites. Glad that I stayed.
Didnt see anyone commenting on this, but the crossword game at the end was a great way to re-engage with the crowd and summarise all the main points.
The massive problem with this approach, and I never saw it being addressed, is that in most companies powerpoint are not really used for presentations only, but really used to meet TWO objectives: 1) As a presentation method, as he was describing it, but also 2) As a self contained, self explanatory report, a repository of information, which can be read and understood on its own. And that is the problem!! These are two very different things which we try to accomplish with the same product. Most powerpoints are horrible because we build then as reports which can be sent beforehand by email to people and then understood by them just by reading it. There are clearly cases when a presentation is just a presentation, but 90% of the cases in big companies, if a powerpoint is built like he instructs in this video, it will be rejected by managers and coworkers simply because it cannot be read.
But if you receive the PPT with the accompanying notes...boom, problem solved. Or?
@@ytytboy in theory except no one does that
@@dddmmm21 thanks for your reply! If no one does that then we should educate them. The information is there, we just need to let them know!
Appendixes exist for this reason
Simply create two. One as visual aid and one as Infodeck. Start with the info deck, make a copy, throw the 95% percent, add size, contrast, multiple slides etc.. bam you're done.
My teacher showed this to the class today since we are going to make presentations about strange organisms (Biology). After he showed us the video he removed the restriction of 5 slides to unlimited (now it's max 10 minutes instead). This video really did a lot for me and I will use this knowledge for all my presentations in the future! Thanks alot :)
+Rein Elliot I cant tell you how much that means to me! Thanks for the feedback!
+David Phillips
Dear David, fantastic meta-presentation - I will definitely use your great tips in the future.
One question: Why do you recommend 6 objects as the maximum, when in fact you show a slide containing 5 (without titles as a 6th object)?
@@DavidJPPhillips Aren't these tips targeted for PowerPoint used for corporate presentation? In particular, about the use of dark background, for teaching or lecturing purposes the teacher do not need to be the 'highlight' of the class, but the contents of his or her teaching do. So white background actually serves the purpose well. What do you think?
@@DavidJPPhillips haha, found you here
@@csystudio teacher here. I agree!!
I came here to watch because Alex Hormozi mentioned "Death by PowerPoint TEDx Talk" in his video. This is a great video - very informative and entertaining. Thank you, David JP Phillips!
same
This should be mandatory training at EVERY company.
Pimack and you expect every presenter to make their own slides.
It's mandatory in my business school but I do the extra work to make them perfect, maybe because I have my defense tommorow
Right!?!
I agree with you ;)
@@DavidJPPhillips I agree with you.
I'm working as an instructor for 18 years- this presentation is epic- completely changed my perspective, i have to change all my presentations.
As a corporate trainer/instructor, I circle back around to this message a few times throughout the year....not only to serve as a reminder of how so many fall into these traps, but to make sure I don't get succumb to the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint". Thanks for this!
Very important information for my research design & methods course!!
This is
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Thank you David!
The speaker ... David JP Phillips gave the finest presentation I've ever seen. It's worth the 20 mins. I'm not talking about the presentation he showed on the screen in this video. I'm talking about his presentation and speaking skills
The more I hear him speak the more I love him! Absolutely amazing David Phillips!
I agree 💯 with that
I use it in the university course I teach. The best guidance for preparing presentations. Delivered in a witty way that my students remember the rules forever! 🙂
I was on your workshops some years back in Sweden. It was just great and much that you talked about just rubbed into my presentations for the coming years. With time everyone just develops their own style of presenting that they are comfortable with - sometimes the developed things work fine, and sometimes they do not. Just came by this now again and found out that a bit of a refresher is good for me too. Anyhow, my sincere thanks for helping me become a better presenter all those years back. That skill has brought good things with it during my career.
Great advice but 95% of presenters are too lazy to even learn the content of their speech/talk so they'll never do this because they seem to think of PowerPoint as their cue cards.
Try to push a new PP design, it will probably get tossed, change is hard.
Never heard of comments?
Yes, you can apply this theory to all learning of anything. It's the difference between people who lose and win.
That's good for you, as it will help you stand out and look AMAZING in comparison.
Yep. That's the main problem: teachers don't really know their subject matter. Ironically, if they'd do some research, and put it in their powerPoint, then they'd actually KNOW the stuff, from just seeing it year after year.
More people really need to see this video. Not only did you highlight what makes a good ppt presentation, you also showed that your rules work at the same time.
Lovely! I remebered to have used 112 slides in a conference to finish my talk in eight minutes flat - very lucid. I think I had followed all these principles just by intuition! Hmmm feel proud.
Just came across David while watching his fabulous interview with Nathanial Bibby on Monday Night Live and have now watched all his Ted Talks which are fantastic - this one is the best - I never understood why anyone used Power Point at all as it always seemed to make presentations all the more boring - now I understand!
After I saw how long the video was I was going to move on, but he kept my attention the entire time and every word was of value! Can’t wait to apply these best practices.
I have never created a PowerPoint presentation in my life. Yet, I just watched this entire video, and absorbed the information. Well done, sir.
I have never been so intrigued by a presenter like David. The way to present and really get the combination of total facts and experience is unbeatable.
laughed more at my nans funeral mate
should be required viewing for every corp. marketing team... and every one else who needs to impart important information.... thank you David JP Phillips
5 Principles (answers that were for my quiz)
One message
Working memory
Size
Contrast
Objects
thank u bro
I like this TED talk because it comes in handy for my public speaking class! It's important to make sure the audience is interested and that you keep their attention until the end of your speech.
Very practical actionable tips indeed. Great job.
Sir Its you ,who recommeded this video for your us and now after your data science journey video ,I am here and glad to see you here.
I am here from your suggestions
And this helps me a lot
Thank you so much 🥰
I also came after watching your video... thank you for your suggestion
Somehow with the lights in the background, it looks like Van Gogh is gonna explain one of his paintings but starts talking about power point instead.
But seriously this is a really good video, i learned a lot from it. :)
I have more often than not felt the "death by powerpoint" in several classroom and orientation settings. A breath of fresh air to have someone address this topic.
Yes! YOU are the presentation, the PPT is the visual aide.
This was required viewing in my nurse practitioner doctorate program. I never knew there was a correct way of designing a PowerPoint. After listening to your talk, it all makes sense. Why allow the PowerPoint presentation to upstage the presenter? I have learned a lot in your 20 minutes TEDx Talk. Thank you.
Wow!! this is so refreshing.. and can't agree more with the speaker when he says "organizations have this thing where they give you a limit of the total slide count" - very relatable.
1- one message per one slide
2- simple pictures and small texts
3- The most important part is to be the biggest one
4- brightening and fading
5- A dark background is easier for your eyes
6- The magical number 6
7- don't disturb the audience with sentences if you want to speak
David, I saw your presentation at 2am in the morning and only hours before submitting a final major presentation for a global conference. I watched your video once, then the second time took notes. It transformed my entire presentation which after I compared it to my other peer presenters, thought it was not as 'expert' as theirs. Well, low and behold!!!! The majority of the audience loved it because they could actually concentrate on what I was saying (the Presenter) and engaged them in meaningful listening. I have since passed it on to several of my colleagues as well as a few folks who attended the conference.
Your presentation was fantastic! Thanks for sharing! More success to you!
+DF Guardian Thanks for your kind words! And well played - it takes some guts and skill to change something that close to the delivery. So happy it worked out brilliantly!!!
This talk changed not only how I teach undergraduates to use PowerPoint in our capstone history course but also how I use PowerPoint in my own teaching.
He started slow but the finish is very strong. Thanks a lot for this, i learn a lot.
Best short talk about optimum PowerPoint presentations I have seen, and this too is my business!
As always (i have seen David before) the best presentation. There is nothing like this presenter and the skills he has in the subject.
I recommend everyone to visit any of he's sessions.
Kul att se! .
Finally, someone said something about the Powerpoint presentations that is of a use!!! Thank you so much David Phillips, I''ll definitely use these tips from now on.
Thank you for your kind words Eva :)
I use this presentation every year with my middle school classes. I'd be lost without it!
Thank you for that amazing talk. I've just been through my latest presentation and trashed all the bad parts which actually took time to put in. I hadn't realised how many bad habits I had acquired from other presentations which you think are essential. So much easier to see the information now because it is no longer cluttered with rubbish. How did I not see how bad it was? Doh! A thank you from my future audiences.
Great talk. In my experience, Powerpoint is no longer used just as a tool for creating presentations. It's also useful for brainstorming and collaboration since it lets you get ideas down quickly and refine them later. The danger comes when the two are mixed and work that was never intended to be presented ends up on screen.
Yes, exactly! I can't believe this comment hasn't received more attention. You're 100% correct here and it's a problem.
Underrated comment!
mixing psychology with anything we do is always genius and i love it... i really enjoyed this and thank you for showing me how to implement these strategies.
I can't thank you enough for this video. It came just at the right time for me. I was hired to do a presentation and wrote it. After watching your video I re-did it and it was much better, of course, and was extremely successful. Thank you.
Cheers! "It came just at the right time for me." I got lucky to get this Gem at just the right time too. 👍😎🥳
The best part is that he was completely true to his word: his powerpoint was amazing
And now he has a TH-cam channel. Legend
Thank you for the heads up. I'm going to check it out.
David, I hope the message reaches every presenter in the World! This is the only knowledge anyone need. PowerPoint can't do the job. Love it when you state that PowerPoint is the VISUAL AID! Great presentation, David! :-)
If anyone's considering getting an MBA, don't. This guy provided more value in 20 minutes than almost any of my classes did in 6 weeks. Professor youtube knows all. Just gotta find content like this.
Thank you! In Catholic theology, there are the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy which guide a person to doing the good for others. This presentation should be added as one of the corporate works of mercy! I am sharing this talk as a good-will gesture to the world....or at least my facebook readers.
My first time making a PowerPoint presentation in high school, and my teacher told us not to have sentences but only have pictures and a few words per slide.
His teaching has never failed me yet :)
I got more about public speaking than anything else from this. This guy is amazing to listen to and watch!
@David I always hated the white background and always persisted with it thinking "what would people think otherwise?". I mean if we have blackboard with white chalk the best way to convey message, why should the powerpoint be different?
After seeing your video, I have put all doubts to rest. Changed the color of my slides to black background. I am going for a major pitching of my product. Thanks for this video. I changed my slides from good to WOW.
+rupam rupam Way to go! There is really such a big difference! Thanks for doing the change!
My personal preference is dark grey, i think it gives my slide more character (with contrasting colours like white & orange)
rupam rupam the change probably started when people use whiteboard and marker pen
You need to get into the 21st century and start using whiteboards. No one likes chalkboards anymore. Chalk feels gritty and horrible.
Dark mode 😳
Literally one of the most useful videos I have encountered on improving a presentation.
It feels like Iron Man giving a presentation because of his stance and confidence.
Love the use of stories, ease with time and humour. David is a funny guy. It makes me eager continue listening to him! 💥
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
This is one of the best and most insightful videos on visualization I've seen. Your presentation did not only exhibit mastery of PowerPoint Presentation, it made it difficult for anyone not to understand and focus on the presentation even if the person deliberately decided not to. Many thanks for enhancing my PowerPoint skills.
Coincidentally, I had to give a power point with a slide limitation of three just days ago. I should really forward this video to my professor.
Exactly. I have to do a presentation on a brand that I chose for a marketing module but it’s only 6 slides for the content!!!
I started watching this as a pessimist but ended up enjoying myself like a child. Loved it!!
I came here to learn how to protect myself against a sentient rogue power point presentation that's been after me for four months.
This didn't help and I'm running low on ammo and places to run to.
Have you tried unplugging it? Remove the power from the PowerPoint
Oh no, I hope you outsmarted that rogue sentient powerpoint! If not, Rest In Peace manictiger 😔
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This is what i love about TED! I keep learning something applicable vs normal school setting. Please keep maling these videos
I had just finished writing a Power Point before watching this.
*hangs head in shame*
All the more I have to say is that I hope the time I just spent re-doing the whole blasted thing is worth it.
Well was it? :)
Here we are, waiting for his response
Sameeee...waiting on answer
Most intense comment ever, posted 5 years ago, left as a cliffhanger.
Still waiting
The dramatic title caught my eye but the contents are just magnificent! David explain it in an easily understand and in depth information needed for presentation way. It's so super helpful, thanks David!
Thank you for these tips 💕. I’m gonna be delivering a presentation in class that composes 50% of our midterm grade and this talk is a lifesaver 😄
I had just finished writing a Power Point before watching this.
hangs head in shame
All the more I have to say is that I hope the time I just spent re-doing the whole blasted thing is worth it.
Still using this for my students when creating Powerpoints for Speaking and Listening Presentation. Makes complete and utter sense.
I am so glad I watched this video before making my first PowerPoint presentation. I was about to start jamming information in every slide. Thank you,
One of the best business video I've see in my 40 year career.
very good. everyone should watch this before they prepare a powerpoint slideshow.
I watched the first 30 seconds and was about to move on, BUT then I read some reviews and watched the video...WOW, GREAT information!!!!
David Phillips moves us because he attacks his subject with joy and wisdom. Great energy and comic timing. Thank you.
The best PPT presentation I have ever seen. My work will never be the same. Thanks.
So David, your gem for me was at the 12.50 mark when you paused and stamped out one the major, major point.....You are the presenter, the communicator, and the screen (PowerPoint ) is just a prop. This was done quietly but has huge resonance with me. We deliver communication skills to a wide variety of candidates from Corporations to students....we hone them.... not Powerpoint...don't abrogate to it..
Enjoyed all your points but usually try to use the Power of 3 not 6!!!
+Talkagility Thanks for picking that one out. Its absolutely one of the most crucial bits from the seminar. The PowerPoint is one of many spices/visual aids you may use to enhance your message. Its not your message nor presentation. You always are.
+Talkagility Couldn't agree more, a real light bulb moment!
Wrong David. You are not the presentation. The content is the presentation, whether it comes from you or from your visuals. 70% of us are visual learners. The slides are not just a prop.
I have to disagree with you Ray. Have you watched many Ted Talks? Most of them don't use PowerPoint or visuals. The only prop is the presenter and the way they convey a message. The Ted Talks are excellent and I would love to have the ability to narrate a message as well as they do.
The content is the content. And it doesn't exist (as far as the audience is concerned) until brought to life by the presenter, who should him/herself be the chief "visual".
Time to really rethink what we are doing with our Powerpoint slides and the impact we want to have. This is a must watch.
Not sure how he counts "objects" from 16:33 and onwards. I see only 12 instead of 16 objects...
You're forgetting to count the headline and the three "objects" at the bottom of the slide that are cut off in the close-up view (slide X of Y, etc.).
And that’s when you stopped listening to the presenter while counting the objects 🤣
GregorySpikeMD I was really confused too.
I was screaming "12" by the end.
we did not get to see the hole power point. He hade 3 more objects at the bottom.
I show this to my ESL classes every year. A few awkward digressions aside, this has some excellent selections on how to make decent PPTs.
Thank you for this effective presentation on effective presentations! I plan to use the video in training my students in speech and visual aid usage here at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan! (sister school to Chalmers in Sweden BTW) Great ideas get around!
I love this. I use slides for Purchasing Training and I have been trying to clean up my presentations, and give them a sleeker, more polished feel. Since lots of words are sometimes needed when teaching, I took my old slides and made them in to a manual that I handed out after my presentation. I used every one of these tips in my new slides and the feedback so far has been awesome.
I’ve only just been introduced to you following a presentation skills course that was put together by my employer - you’re delivery explains everything of what you say and I will be watching more of your videos as motivation and inspiration. Thank you !!
Gotta agree with you on the darker bg and the smaller title.. Finally i was not killed by powerpoint at a TeD Ex presentation, Now that was interesting and well performed really goes to show that the tool is not the presentation u are.. well said mate! This was truly Soulful to all of us who suffer viewing and making that dreadful powerpoint on daily basis.
Nice presentation! Ive already known some of these points and used them at school. My teachers really liked my presentations. Nevertheless they always taught us the wrong way to do presentations and did them wrong themselve... Strange
David JP Phillips Thanks, just saved my presentation. I tried my best to follow the advises and they loved.
i wish there were no bulbs on the background its distracting for me..but great contents!! :)
Too much contrast and too many objects! ;-)
He's too HOT to be distracted by 😍😍😍
that´s true!
The background is in context with the content. Now join the dots :)
Hi David.
Lovely, clear and simple illustration of why so many people mis-use PowerPoint, thank you. To fully understand the arguments you were making however I have some queries:
1) Why if SIX is the maximum number of points you recommend having on a slide, do you use an example of 7 vs 5 balls? Why not prove the point by showing 6 balls? What you’ve shown me is that 5 is easier to see than 7, which you rightly point out we need to count.
2) When discussing the real-life example slide of the features of the Supercar Exterior, you mention 16 objects. I can see on the slide either 12 items (13 if you include the heading) or a total of 23 words. To what were you referring when you mention 16?
3) When explaining the benefits of reducing the number of items, you drop it down to 4 (Flat free tires, Xenon lights, New material and Aerodynamic). Again, if SIX is to maximum, why didn’t you show that in action?
Many thanks
Meredith
Thank you so much for this presentation, David! Hugely helpful and very thought-provoking.
One of THE BEST presentations & Ted Talks I have ever watched! And practical to boot!
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :))
Pretty much covered some basic design principles in very simple way. Can't believe how many of my professors at college even after years of doing presentations still do all of these mistakes... white glaring backgrounds, more attention to titles than content, sentences, heck even paragraphs of text while professor is talking.. + almost no pictures most times.
And this comes from a design college, and a professor who is like "design critic", yet he doesn't even understand basic concepts..
+Andriuha49378 Those are the worst. Live like you teach... feels like a pretty simple concept.
As someone who is horrible at lectures (I can never remember what people have said unless I make a lot of notes, but the moment I start writing a note I can't listen to the rest he's saying) I'm actually kinda glad college professors write entire sentences. Now I can look at the handouts when learning for the exams and figure out what I need to know. If they only use the PowerPoint as a visual aide, I would never be able to go back to something as easily as I can now... Unless the information they give is also written down somewhere, in which case I would strongly prefer this kind of presentation.
Different people use ppt differently. As a lecturer I show students the ppt in class but they know it's been designed as a conceptual overview and revision resource to be downloaded from the platform and perused at home: class showing is just a quick preview. Thus, some of these principles don't apply. My job is to map a territory and tell you the names of the places, so that you can dispense with me and just use Google from then on, and no self-respecting cartographer says "uh-oh, I've reached my limit of six place names to a map, better do a new map". We want to get a picture of the whole territory before zooming in on the detail.
I am a lowly Junior high school history teacher, and, perhaps because i have a challenging audience, my powerpoints are awesome. I'm the only teacher in my district that I know of that has 65'" big screens in his room. So that helps. I always use dark backgrounds, but, more than that, I try to not even use backgrounds. I use pictures as backgrounds. I use the picture first -- on the theory that people think in images -- and then, hit control + D and make a duplicate and then insert text and put in words on the image. One thing I require my students to do is to write down whatever words are underlined. The rest of the words are just for me to read, I try -- and succeed -- to write beautiful paragraphs for me to read, while they write down bits and parts of words that, when taken together, make a sentence that says the same thing, just with less words. Meanwhile, I use music. Mostly soundtracks from movies. War dramas seem to have the best music. Hans Zimmer for example makes anything seem important. Lots of images. Frequent changes. My typical chapter PPT has anywhere from 325 to 500 frames. Everyone is impressed with my PowerPoints. I've never seen anyone do them better. in fact, that's why I was on here hoping to find someone as good as me.
Robert Harrigan good job! Wish I had a teacher like you, and it in a good way, forces the students to focus in class because the presentation file will be too big to email! Brilliant!
David Philips made some great tips on how not to under deliver or over deliver PPT slides. Using these points will allow the audience to stay focused, remember the presentation and keep clear/concise.
Cause of death: Power Point
I read this in David Caruso's voice followed by the opening scream from "Won't Get Fooled Again"
That is legit why I clicked on the video hahaha ( A reply 4 years after you commented how are you? 😂)
Message v Medium! Cause of death all too often the human "presenter" and their social inability to articulate a poorly organised message. Don't judge a house by the wallpaper...
5 Principles (answers that were for my quiz)
One message
Working memory
Size
Contrast
Objects
More instructors should really see this, it's opened my eyes to why Ive failed in a few classes back then.
Did you realize that you weren't trying hard enough?
Dear David,
Excellent !! You have analysed audience brain and come up with a Solution !!
I am going to use your tips !!
Thank you,
My teachers show us this tedx in class 5 years ago and I am using it since then for all my presentations with immediate congrats, thanks a lot ✨
Amazing as fuck.
This kind of videos deserves more than one like per person.
So much disappointement when i didnt find any more videos by
David JP Phillips, i thought this guy was a 'thing.
Like, you should have your own show or something.
+skyz3ra Thanks! : ) You made my day with your comment! Id love my own show. Maybe one day : )
mwsx yeah
This one of the most use full TedTalks ever. I have a presentation tomorrow and I had to revise my PowerPoint.
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :)))
And here I was expecting this to be a powerpoint about immortality
The German language would have avoided this false expectation.
"Wie man Tod durch Powerpoint vermeidet" vs "Wie man durch Powerpoint den Tod vermeidet" :-)
I thought I had powerpoint presentations down pat - and we've been training people for years on the need for succinct slides etc. but we are now excited to use some of the pointers we've learnt today and pass them on to others. Thank you.
A great talk on the basic concepts on how to make powerpoint. It sure helped me a lot.
After watching this video now I feel that I can do more creativity with my PowerPoint slides and present it like a boss. thank you
Who's here after watching this being mentioned on Alex Hormozi's video?
I am :)