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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

20 minutes1200 seconds420,000 presentations

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

20 minutes1200 seconds420,000 presentations

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THANK YOU!IN-APP SURVEYCaitlin Locke, M.S.Ed

| Instructional Designer/Project ManagerAstraZeneca

| caitlinelocke@gmail.com

| @caitsteinbach

@yourLTEN • #LTEN2019 Conference