The article "Ten simple rules for effective presentation slides" by Dr. Kristen M Naegle offers helpful tips for designing clear, engaging, and effective presentation slides, with a focus on making research communication easier for your audience to follow and remember. See the full article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638955/.
- Include only one idea per slide
- Spend only 1 minute per slide
- Make use of your heading
- Include only essential points
- Give credit, where credit is due
- Use graphics effectively
- Design to avoid cognitive overload
- Design the slide so that a distracted person gets the main takeaway
- Iteratively improve slide design through practice
- Design to mitigate the impact of technical disasters
