How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- With a seldom seen depth of knowledge and passion for his subject, David Phillips has become the leading Swedish figurehead in the art of making presentations. He is the founder and owner of Sweden's largest resource on the subject: Presentationsteknik.com. He is also author of the ground-breaking book "How To Avoid Death By PowerPoint" published in more than 30 countries.
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Imagine the akwardness of the next person to present with a powerpoint
Lol
Seriously, you feel like dying! And you can't do editing there and then! You know, i can ask for a reschedule! Or a different audience! Lol
It would certainly make a specific MSSQL instructor at SuperUSers in Denmark understand what I was constantly trying to communicate to him.
Not that it was his fault - it was Microsoft's because the instructor was only going through preprepared slides.
😂😂😂
Ironically that presentation was titled: 'Death By Awkward Embarrassment'.
I have never been more inspired to make a PowerPoint
Cause of death: Power Point
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
lol
Guess you don’t get any real work accomplished.
I lost my father to powerpoint last year and was so touched by your talk. Thank you for spreading awareness ❤
wait how tf does someone die by powerpoint
@@catherinelin8548 I was a joke I was making a joke.
My dad is alive and well.
@@catherinelin8548 Brutally
@@catherinelin8548 I was wondering the same 😂
@@catherinelin8548 its possible, powerpoint overworked them to death
Key points from this video:
2:32 Examples of bad slides.
3:46 "90% of what you said was gone in 30 seconds" if your slides looked like these bad examples.
6:15 One message per slide!
7:20 "1 + 1 = 0" -> "Redundancy Effect" -> If what you're saying (verbal script) is also written on your slides, your audience will get 0 info.
8:05 Purpose of your slides: short, sweet bit of text and an image.
8:36 Your eyes focus on moving objects, signaling colours (red/orange/yellow), contrasting objects, and big objects.
9:32 Slide title is often the biggest object, but rarely the more important.
10:26 The biggest parts of your slides should be the most important part of your presentation.
10:40 U S E C O N T R A S T to control your audience's attention.
10:46 Don't use light backgrounds. Use dark backgrounds and light text! Light background steal too much attention (e.g., from the speaker).
14:12 Your brain needs to "count" if there are 7 or more objects, but not if there are only 6 or fewer. Your brain can simply "see" the 6 objects.
14:42 Counting takes 500% more cognitive resources than just seeing.
15:40 The magic number is 6. The max number of objects per slide should be 6.
18:28 The number of slides is rarely the problem. The problem is often the number of objects per slide.
Dang! I wish I had come across this video YEARS ago.
Poorly designed slides are everywhere!
Super useful info. David is amazing!
THANKS FOR SHARING!! :-)
Just sent a link to the video to my two boys - and then followed it up with an email with your comment pasted into it, Many, many thanks for going to the trouble to create the list for us.
@@lydiaoehling705 No problem, Lydia! :)
@@AntoineMaloney Glad I could help, Antoine! :)
Great summary!
The 6 Principles
One message (per slide)
No text Sentences
SIZE
Contrast - to steer focus
SIX or less objects (per slide)
Dark background
your welcome
*You're
Wow thanks. Seriously good input.
Why aren't there more people like you in the world? I swear, thanks for listing the 6 principles, it saved me a lot of time for my midterm reflection.
Thanks man, I was looking through the video for those points to help my final, cheers!
Thank you! I did not want to spend 20 minutes waiting to hear these point.
This should be mandatory training at EVERY company.
Pimack and you expect every presenter to make their own slides.
It's mandatory in my business school but I do the extra work to make them perfect, maybe because I have my defense tommorow
Right!?!
I agree with you ;)
@@DavidJPPhillips I agree with you.
The massive problem with this approach, and I never saw it being addressed, is that in most companies powerpoint are not really used for presentations only, but really used to meet TWO objectives: 1) As a presentation method, as the was describing it, but also 2) As a self contained, self explanatory report, a repository of information, which can be read and understood on its own. And that is the problem!! These are two very different things which we try to accomplish with the same product. Most powerpoints are horrible because we build then as reports which can be sent beforehand by email to people and then understood by them just by reading it. There are clearly cases when a presentation is just a presentation, but 90% of the cases in big companies, if a powerpoint is built like he instructs in this video, it will be rejected by managers and coworkers simply because it cannot be read.
But if you receive the PPT with the accompanying notes...boom, problem solved. Or?
@@ytytboy in theory except no one does that
@@dddmmm21 thanks for your reply! If no one does that then we should educate them. The information is there, we just need to let them know!
I came in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. The presenter,
David JP Phillips did a good job highlighting how we can get better with our PowerPoint
skills. Overall I am glad I spent 20 minutes on this TEDx Talks.
Thank you again for sharing on RUclips. One
constructive criticism I must offer is that the message could have been
delivered in a shorter duration.
@5++++×8+
Same here :) So happy I stayed
I was listening to it while driving. Towards the second half I actually quit driving and now I am in a hospital. Huh.
...and then they lived happly ever after.
Same here, watching someone talking 20 minutes about Powerpoint presentation. Wasnt really paying attention first 5 min, and then saved this to my favorites. Glad that I stayed.
My teacher showed this to the class today since we are going to make presentations about strange organisms (Biology). After he showed us the video he removed the restriction of 5 slides to unlimited (now it's max 10 minutes instead). This video really did a lot for me and I will use this knowledge for all my presentations in the future! Thanks alot :)
+Rein Elliot I cant tell you how much that means to me! Thanks for the feedback!
+David Phillips
Dear David, fantastic meta-presentation - I will definitely use your great tips in the future.
One question: Why do you recommend 6 objects as the maximum, when in fact you show a slide containing 5 (without titles as a 6th object)?
@@DavidJPPhillips Aren't these tips targeted for PowerPoint used for corporate presentation? In particular, about the use of dark background, for teaching or lecturing purposes the teacher do not need to be the 'highlight' of the class, but the contents of his or her teaching do. So white background actually serves the purpose well. What do you think?
@@DavidJPPhillips haha, found you here
@@csystudio teacher here. I agree!!
5 Principles (answers that were for my quiz)
One message
Working memory
Size
Contrast
Objects
I came here to watch because Alex Hormozi mentioned "Death by PowerPoint TEDx Talk" in his video. This is a great video - very informative and entertaining. Thank you, David JP Phillips!
same
Very practical actionable tips indeed. Great job.
Sir Its you ,who recommeded this video for your us and now after your data science journey video ,I am here and glad to see you here.
I am here from your suggestions
And this helps me a lot
Thank you so much 🥰
I also came after watching your video... thank you for your suggestion
It feels like Iron Man giving a presentation because of his stance and confidence.
Coincidentally, I had to give a power point with a slide limitation of three just days ago. I should really forward this video to my professor.
Love the use of stories, ease with time and humour. David is a funny guy. It makes me eager continue listening to him! 💥
I'm working as an instructor for 18 years- this presentation is epic- completely changed my perspective, i have to change all my presentations.
I use it in the university course I teach. The best guidance for preparing presentations. Delivered in a witty way that my students remember the rules forever! 🙂
This is
one of the best
video
provided by ted
on presentation.
Thank you David!
Just came across David while watching his fabulous interview with Nathanial Bibby on Monday Night Live and have now watched all his Ted Talks which are fantastic - this one is the best - I never understood why anyone used Power Point at all as it always seemed to make presentations all the more boring - now I understand!
The more I hear him speak the more I love him! Absolutely amazing David Phillips!
I agree 💯 with that
I was on your workshops some years back in Sweden. It was just great and much that you talked about just rubbed into my presentations for the coming years. With time everyone just develops their own style of presenting that they are comfortable with - sometimes the developed things work fine, and sometimes they do not. Just came by this now again and found out that a bit of a refresher is good for me too. Anyhow, my sincere thanks for helping me become a better presenter all those years back. That skill has brought good things with it during my career.
Lovely! I remebered to have used 112 slides in a conference to finish my talk in eight minutes flat - very lucid. I think I had followed all these principles just by intuition! Hmmm feel proud.
This talk changed not only how I teach undergraduates to use PowerPoint in our capstone history course but also how I use PowerPoint in my own teaching.
As a corporate trainer/instructor, I circle back around to this message a few times throughout the year....not only to serve as a reminder of how so many fall into these traps, but to make sure I don't get succumb to the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint". Thanks for this!
Very important information for my research design & methods course!!
And now he has a RUclips channel. Legend
Thank you for the heads up. I'm going to check it out.
He started slow but the finish is very strong. Thanks a lot for this, i learn a lot.
1- one message per one slide
2- simple pictures and small texts
3- The most important part is to be the biggest one
4- brightening and fading
5- A dark background is easier for your eyes
6- The magical number 6
7- don't disturb the audience with sentences if you want to speak
should be required viewing for every corp. marketing team... and every one else who needs to impart important information.... thank you David JP Phillips
Thank you so much for this presentation, David! Hugely helpful and very thought-provoking.
I’ve only just been introduced to you following a presentation skills course that was put together by my employer - you’re delivery explains everything of what you say and I will be watching more of your videos as motivation and inspiration. Thank you !!
The speaker ... David JP Phillips gave the finest presentation I've ever seen. It's worth the 20 mins. I'm not talking about the presentation he showed on the screen in this video. I'm talking about his presentation and speaking skills
This is awesome!
Thank you for that amazing talk. I've just been through my latest presentation and trashed all the bad parts which actually took time to put in. I hadn't realised how many bad habits I had acquired from other presentations which you think are essential. So much easier to see the information now because it is no longer cluttered with rubbish. How did I not see how bad it was? Doh! A thank you from my future audiences.
More people really need to see this video. Not only did you highlight what makes a good ppt presentation, you also showed that your rules work at the same time.
Great advice but 95% of presenters are too lazy to even learn the content of their speech/talk so they'll never do this because they seem to think of PowerPoint as their cue cards.
Try to push a new PP design, it will probably get tossed, change is hard.
Never heard of comments?
Yes, you can apply this theory to all learning of anything. It's the difference between people who lose and win.
That's good for you, as it will help you stand out and look AMAZING in comparison.
Yep. That's the main problem: teachers don't really know their subject matter. Ironically, if they'd do some research, and put it in their powerPoint, then they'd actually KNOW the stuff, from just seeing it year after year.
The dramatic title caught my eye but the contents are just magnificent! David explain it in an easily understand and in depth information needed for presentation way. It's so super helpful, thanks David!
If anyone's considering getting an MBA, don't. This guy provided more value in 20 minutes than almost any of my classes did in 6 weeks. Professor youtube knows all. Just gotta find content like this.
Who's here after watching this being mentioned on Alex Hormozi's video?
I am :)
Thank you, David. First time I looked at the headline and I reliazed that you are the really master on the show!
I learnt a lots from you. Hope to see more lessons.
I thought I had powerpoint presentations down pat - and we've been training people for years on the need for succinct slides etc. but we are now excited to use some of the pointers we've learnt today and pass them on to others. Thank you.
mixing psychology with anything we do is always genius and i love it... i really enjoyed this and thank you for showing me how to implement these strategies.
After I saw how long the video was I was going to move on, but he kept my attention the entire time and every word was of value! Can’t wait to apply these best practices.
The best part is that he was completely true to his word: his powerpoint was amazing
Thank you, David - very helpful design and communication principles, and you taught us in a very entertaining emotionally engaging way. Great joy to watch you and listen to you!
Thank you for this effective presentation on effective presentations! I plan to use the video in training my students in speech and visual aid usage here at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan! (sister school to Chalmers in Sweden BTW) Great ideas get around!
I like this TED talk because it comes in handy for my public speaking class! It's important to make sure the audience is interested and that you keep their attention until the end of your speech.
One of the best business video I've see in my 40 year career.
I use this presentation every year with my middle school classes. I'd be lost without it!
Best short talk about optimum PowerPoint presentations I have seen, and this too is my business!
I have more often than not felt the "death by powerpoint" in several classroom and orientation settings. A breath of fresh air to have someone address this topic.
After watching this video now I feel that I can do more creativity with my PowerPoint slides and present it like a boss. thank you
This is a great talk on how to use powerpoint effectively. I have been looking for some advice to give my students and had them watch this. It not only tells, but it shows how it works for ineffective and effective slides.
I came here to learn how to protect myself against a sentient rogue power point presentation that's been after me for four months.
This didn't help and I'm running low on ammo and places to run to.
Have you tried unplugging it? Remove the power from the PowerPoint
Oh no, I hope you outsmarted that rogue sentient powerpoint! If not, Rest In Peace manictiger 😔
Cool, 3 years ago
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very good. everyone should watch this before they prepare a powerpoint slideshow.
I have never created a PowerPoint presentation in my life. Yet, I just watched this entire video, and absorbed the information. Well done, sir.
Still using this for my students when creating Powerpoints for Speaking and Listening Presentation. Makes complete and utter sense.
This was required viewing in my nurse practitioner doctorate program. I never knew there was a correct way of designing a PowerPoint. After listening to your talk, it all makes sense. Why allow the PowerPoint presentation to upstage the presenter? I have learned a lot in your 20 minutes TEDx Talk. Thank you.
This is great, being in the military we're constantly bombarded with powerpoint presentations as well as producing our own, alot of the time there usually upto 100+ slides and the amount of infomation per slide is horrendous to say the least even though we have courses on presenting and using powerpoint as a visual aid which is similar to your TED talk, people still end up losing the audience within the first few minutes. From now on I shall be using your method and hopefully bring others to the fold. Thank you P.S it was nice not finding myself drifting off to sleep during this.
So simple and yet it makes so much sense! Thank you for pointing that out
Literally one of the most useful videos I have encountered on improving a presentation.
I had just finished writing a Power Point before watching this.
*hangs head in shame*
All the more I have to say is that I hope the time I just spent re-doing the whole blasted thing is worth it.
Well was it? :)
Here we are, waiting for his response
Sameeee...waiting on answer
Most intense comment ever, posted 5 years ago, left as a cliffhanger.
Still waiting
A great talk on the basic concepts on how to make powerpoint. It sure helped me a lot.
This Ted Talk should be in the curriculum of every school in the Universe.
Has changed my professional life! The book is great as well. A must have.
Great talk. In my experience, Powerpoint is no longer used just as a tool for creating presentations. It's also useful for brainstorming and collaboration since it lets you get ideas down quickly and refine them later. The danger comes when the two are mixed and work that was never intended to be presented ends up on screen.
Yes, exactly! I can't believe this comment hasn't received more attention. You're 100% correct here and it's a problem.
Underrated comment!
I am so glad I watched this video before making my first PowerPoint presentation. I was about to start jamming information in every slide. Thank you,
Very helpful thanks David. I went immediately to a powerpoint I've been working on and changed the lot!
Thank you for these tips 💕. I’m gonna be delivering a presentation in class that composes 50% of our midterm grade and this talk is a lifesaver 😄
@David I always hated the white background and always persisted with it thinking "what would people think otherwise?". I mean if we have blackboard with white chalk the best way to convey message, why should the powerpoint be different?
After seeing your video, I have put all doubts to rest. Changed the color of my slides to black background. I am going for a major pitching of my product. Thanks for this video. I changed my slides from good to WOW.
+rupam rupam Way to go! There is really such a big difference! Thanks for doing the change!
My personal preference is dark grey, i think it gives my slide more character (with contrasting colours like white & orange)
rupam rupam the change probably started when people use whiteboard and marker pen
You need to get into the 21st century and start using whiteboards. No one likes chalkboards anymore. Chalk feels gritty and horrible.
Dark mode 😳
Thank you! In Catholic theology, there are the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy which guide a person to doing the good for others. This presentation should be added as one of the corporate works of mercy! I am sharing this talk as a good-will gesture to the world....or at least my facebook readers.
A beautiful man and beautifully delivered. Thank you David.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
05:54 📝 *Use one message per PowerPoint slide to enhance audience understanding and retention.*
07:27 🤯 *Avoid speaking sentences simultaneously with text on slides to prevent the audience from retaining information effectively.*
09:36 🖼️ *Utilize the principle of size to highlight the most important elements; make crucial information the biggest object on the slide.*
10:41 🎨 *Control audience focus with contrast; emphasize important points by using contrast to guide the audience's attention.*
15:57 💡 *Limit the number of objects on a slide to around six for optimal audience understanding; excessive objects can overwhelm and lead to cognitive fatigue.*
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Nice presentation! Ive already known some of these points and used them at school. My teachers really liked my presentations. Nevertheless they always taught us the wrong way to do presentations and did them wrong themselve... Strange
I have never been so intrigued by a presenter like David. The way to present and really get the combination of total facts and experience is unbeatable.
laughed more at my nans funeral mate
My teachers show us this tedx in class 5 years ago and I am using it since then for all my presentations with immediate congrats, thanks a lot ✨
This is one of the moss useful videos that ive ever seen on youtube(if not the most).
THANK YOU
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :)))
My first time making a PowerPoint presentation in high school, and my teacher told us not to have sentences but only have pictures and a few words per slide.
His teaching has never failed me yet :)
I love this in so many ways, thank you !!!
This is one of the best and most insightful videos on visualization I've seen. Your presentation did not only exhibit mastery of PowerPoint Presentation, it made it difficult for anyone not to understand and focus on the presentation even if the person deliberately decided not to. Many thanks for enhancing my PowerPoint skills.
David Phillips moves us because he attacks his subject with joy and wisdom. Great energy and comic timing. Thank you.
Thanks David, really nice speech. Everybody envolved with presentations MUST see this video.
Wow!! this is so refreshing.. and can't agree more with the speaker when he says "organizations have this thing where they give you a limit of the total slide count" - very relatable.
Not sure how he counts "objects" from 16:33 and onwards. I see only 12 instead of 16 objects...
You're forgetting to count the headline and the three "objects" at the bottom of the slide that are cut off in the close-up view (slide X of Y, etc.).
And that’s when you stopped listening to the presenter while counting the objects 🤣
GregorySpikeMD I was really confused too.
I was screaming "12" by the end.
we did not get to see the hole power point. He hade 3 more objects at the bottom.
And here I was expecting this to be a powerpoint about immortality
The German language would have avoided this false expectation.
"Wie man Tod durch Powerpoint vermeidet" vs "Wie man durch Powerpoint den Tod vermeidet" :-)
I love this. I use slides for Purchasing Training and I have been trying to clean up my presentations, and give them a sleeker, more polished feel. Since lots of words are sometimes needed when teaching, I took my old slides and made them in to a manual that I handed out after my presentation. I used every one of these tips in my new slides and the feedback so far has been awesome.
One of THE BEST presentations & Ted Talks I have ever watched! And practical to boot!
Hi, I would like to purchase his training on the site headgain(with the 110 elements) with 20 peoples (some of the content would be sent before payment as proof of purchase). Would you be interested in this ? :))
Also, "Don't expand the topic to fill the time you have the conference room booked for"
Finally, someone said something about the Powerpoint presentations that is of a use!!! Thank you so much David Phillips, I''ll definitely use these tips from now on.
Thank you for your kind words Eva :)
This is what i love about TED! I keep learning something applicable vs normal school setting. Please keep maling these videos
These all seem like such simple and obvious things to consider and yet it's never crossed my mind
I can't thank you enough for this video. It came just at the right time for me. I was hired to do a presentation and wrote it. After watching your video I re-did it and it was much better, of course, and was extremely successful. Thank you.
Cheers! "It came just at the right time for me." I got lucky to get this Gem at just the right time too. 👍😎🥳
Dear David,
Excellent !! You have analysed audience brain and come up with a Solution !!
I am going to use your tips !!
Thank you,
I suggest every single teacher in the world to watch this ted talk.
I love love loveeeeeee the way you talk! And super useful! Thanks for saving my death by PowerPoint! ❤
This guy is floor gang
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Aough
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Perfect of the perfect! I'm so gapd that you did it and so glad that I watched it. Thank you!
I started watching this as a pessimist but ended up enjoying myself like a child. Loved it!!
Came in because of hormozi, legend
same
Cause of death: Power Point
I read this in David Caruso's voice followed by the opening scream from "Won't Get Fooled Again"
That is legit why I clicked on the video hahaha ( A reply 4 years after you commented how are you? 😂)
Message v Medium! Cause of death all too often the human "presenter" and their social inability to articulate a poorly organised message. Don't judge a house by the wallpaper...
5 Principles (answers that were for my quiz)
One message
Working memory
Size
Contrast
Objects
watched and rewatched again and again. never gets old