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Not Your Mother’s PowerPoint: the magic of slidedocs
Caitlin Locke, M.S.EdInstructional Designer/Project ManagerAstraZeneca
@yourLTEN • #LTEN2019 Conference
Death by PowerPoint Need Quick Collateral1 2
Audiences don’t want to attend a read-along, they’d rather read it themselves.
Death by PowerPoint Quick Collateral
Why do we create these? • Habit • Presentation Culture• Resource limitation• Need the content to stand
on its own outside of a presentation.
Why do we create these? • Habit• Mind-dump• Quick & easy• Images are difficult
Presentations Documents
ExhaustiveTopical structure
InformativeAnalytical process
Visually denseIntended to be read
Self-guided
Cinematic storyDramatic structure
TransformativeCreative processVisually sparse
Intended to be heardPresenter-guided
Presentations DocumentsSlideDocs
ExplanatoryModular structure
EducationalVisual thinking process
Tight visual-to-prose ratioUnderstood quickly
the right balance of detail and scanabilityto be used as a pre-read or handout
SlideDocsVisual Documents developed in presentation software intended to be read & referenced, not projected & presented
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This is Not Your Mother’s
PowerPoint
Brains are Image Processors
Images Anchor Concepts
Words = Short-term MemoryImages = Long-term Memory
more with less resourcestimeoversight
As a Pre-ReadThe most effective conversations happen when everybody is fully
informed. By distributing a slidedoc before a meeting or training event,
you can reserve a majority of the time for building understanding or
focusing on knowledge transfer.
As Follow-Up Material Presentations often answer the “What?”. After a formal presentation, people need answers to the question, “So What?” Follow up with details so they can connect the dots. This is why slidedocs make great modular training or sales collateral.
As an Emissary People will sometimes say, “Send me
your slides” before they’ll book a meeting with you. Slidedocs help fully explain your idea without being there.
As Reference Material Information should enhance a conversation, not distract from it. Combining words and visuals around a single idea makes it easier for people to refer to the information in the heat of a discussion.
“But I don’t have creative software”
Slidedocs use presentation software, not creative software, making them an accessible solution to designers and “non-designers” alike.
hyperlinks
SlideDocs Building Blocs
columns (gridwork)
words + visual
Target word count: 100Dense word count: 250
www.Duarte.com
• Templates• Book = Slide:ology• E-book = Slidedocs: Spread
ideas with Effective Visual Documents
References
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THANK YOU!IN-APP SURVEYCaitlin Locke, M.S.Ed
| Instructional Designer/Project ManagerAstraZeneca
| @caitsteinbach
@yourLTEN • #LTEN2019 Conference
