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Samples of slides from previous presentations I’ve given. I believe that whenever possible, it’s best to keep the slides that accompany talks simple. Create a separate handout deck if necessary. When slides are designed as background visuals, the audience will listen to your words instead of reading the slide and not hearing you.

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Typography 101

Slide with photo of movable type.

Slide with drawing of Claude Garamond.

Slide with photo of a sheet of paper with marked up specs for typesetting.

Slide with photo of old typesetting machine and text that says typesetting was like writing HTML but not getting to see what it looks like until tomorrow.

Slide with text that reads "one fish, two fish", with some bad kerning.

Slide that has the text "Type is fun" and labels type elements like cap height, descenders, ascenders, baseline, and x-height.

Illustration of a wedding invitation that invites your to only used centered type for wedding invitations, because the jagged edges makes it harder for reader to consume your message.

Slide with a screenshot of a web page, with annotations of good typography practices on the page.

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The Cost of College is Too Damn High

Slide that says that $9,410 is average price for one year of public instate university tuition and fees.

Slide that says that $11,505 is the average price for one year on on-campus room and board.

Slide that shows that average tuition and fees for 4 years is $40,557 for public in-state, $102,967 for public out-of-state, and $139,690 for private.

Slide that shows that average tuition, fees, room and board for 4 years is $86,577 for public in-state, $148.987 for public out-of-state, and $185,710 for private.

Slide that says that $18,135 is average amount saved for children's college.

Slide that shows that the four-year difference between average in-state TFRB and average family savings for college is -$68,442.

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Design Portals Like a Rockstar

Title slide for the presentation with a rock star playing guitar.

Slide with a crowd at a concert and text that says "be your audience".

Slide with a row of colorful crayons and text that says "don't be afraid of color".

Slide with a row of crayons, but all of them are gray except for a blue and green one, with text that says "use your power wisely."

Slide that says "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

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Form Design Tips and Tricks

Slide with old-fashioned drawing of two people talking and text that says "get excited! it's time to fill our a form! said no one ever."

Slide with a quote from Luke W that says "Forms suck".

Slide with a quote from Luke W that says "Forms just stand in our way".

Slide with image of woman screaming that said "Fill out your own form. Own it."

Slide with text that says "Is the information necessary? Keep, cut, postpone, explain".

Slide with text that says "Question everything when moving a paper form online. The best way to speed up form completion process is to not ask the question."

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KISS Design

Cover slide for presentation showing bottom half of a woman's face in black and white, with shiny red lipstick on her lips."

Slide with the acronym KISS in the background and the text "Most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated."

Slide with text that says "The web is made of content."

Slide with text that says "You add content."

Slide with text that says "Multi-device world, built-in complexity."

Slide that says "KISS design equals simplicity."