Welcome back folks I hope all of you are doing well. Today we are going to speak about PowerPoint presentations. the presentations, I believe that content should drive the design. That is the way that your structure organizes your presentation and it should follow the needs of the content rather than the rigid structure itself. But this is a lot of work and And it isn't easy, particularly if you are learning the ropes of presentation design and storytelling.
That's where the rules come in. If you are struggling to get started or are not aware and not sure about how best to structure your PowerPoint presentation, we can offer you a lot of help to easy ramp on in terms of getting you going. And 555 rule is both simplistic and effective as well. So what is this 555 rule? Let's talk about it.
Firstly, five words on a single slide or five lines of text on a single slide itself. The third one is five slides that may apply the first two rules in a row. Now, let's take a closer look at each part of these five rules and how. These can help you to better build your site.
So the first one goes five words on a single slide. Presentations are multi-dimensional. They rely on a combination of written words, spoken language, and... and visual storytelling as well to effectively communicate information.
So if you're writing out lengthy, complete sentences in order to make sure that all the information is there, you're missing the point and probably the value of PowerPoint as well. By applying the five words per line through, you are ensuring that your writing stays sharp and clear and that audiences focus more on you rather than on the screen. as you can imagine if the focus is more on the screen and not on you then how counterproductive it can be. Five lines on a single slide.
When we are designing PowerPoints for our customers, for our clients, for our stakeholders we have our own general rules and we try to follow them. That's because people tend to think of a slide as a single unit of content. This tells the brain to keep those ideas together, associating and creating association between bits of information and helping us to cement them in our minds. And if a seminal piece of neuroscience is...
is true, we can hold seven plus or minus two pieces of short information in our brains. By limiting yourself to five lines of text, not only that you're helping to make a presentation more effective, you're also helping your audience to internalize more of the information you are trying to share. Last but not the least, that is no more than five slides that apply the first two rules in a row.
So if you are followed in the first two rules to the later on every single slide of your PowerPoint, you could still have way too much content for your effective presentation. So if you catch yourself relying too heavily on first two fives, you should keep, let's say, step back and look for the... ways of varying your content.
This could also mean trimming back certain slides to reduce the amount of content, adding in more images, infographics, or simply removing some of the idle content. But when you must apply these 555 rules, the purpose of this rule isn't to blindly apply it to PowerPoint presentations you make. Rather, it is to force you to take a step back and carefully consider each slide you are creating.
for its contents, as well as to keep your audience consideration front and center. It is also a great way to outline your own content. If you are ever feeling stuck on how to get started with a big presentation, creating content within this five by five rules can help you to structure your presentation just enough that you can ignore the rule.
I hope you enjoyed it, fellas. Just don't forget to comment in the comment section and share your experiences. And if you have your own rules.
of our point presentation preparation. I'm sure you have them. I look forward to hear from you. And till the time we speak again, take good care of yourself.