Skip to Content
Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition
book

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition

by Garr Reynolds
December 2013
Beginner
288 pages
7h 54m
English
New Riders
Content preview from Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition

9. Achieving Harmony

Image

The photo to the left is an example of traditional Japanese architecture. The Japanese aesthetic does not deny nature but attempts to bring it into the abode in a way that is harmonious. Yes, presentation slides are not the same thing as a traditional Japanese home or tea house, but to the degree they can, our design elements must also work together in harmony.

Every individual slide and every slide deck should feel like it is part of a unified whole. When you have unity, the elements are congruous, creating a general perception that things are connected and part of the same message. As we observed in Chapter 7, your slides ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

Garr Reynolds

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780133440973Purchase book