Presentation Template
For your presentations we provide you with a template that you are supposed to use. You can open it in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Open Office or the like.
How to use it
- You need to edit the master slides and include your name, the date, the event and the titel to the respective placeholder areas
- Create a title slide with all your info, like your name, matriculation number, title, supervisor, course or event etc.
- Add your slides, you can choose between different templates but you should not create your own ones.
- Keep the slide numbers visible and stay within the borders of the templates.
Guidance for good slides
1. Ensure visual hierarchy
- Keep a consistent heading throughout the slides with the same size.
- Use at most 3 different font sizes.
- Use color and font width for highlights in the text.
2. Align everything
- Pretend that there is an invisible bounding box that you cannot go beyond.
- Try to keep the headline at the same position on all slides and align all following text to the left side of the headline.
- Whenever there is a group of information, like an image and the caption, align them to each other.
3. Use high contrast colors and use it intentionally, ideally not for text, only highlights
- Ask yourself: What purpose does this color serve?
- Stick to the same color for the same type of information (Highlight, or System A vs. System B, Good vs. Bad, Warning..)
- Avoid light colors
- Pay attention to the contrast of foreground and background
4. Don‘t overcrowd slides
- Avoid too much information on one slide, stick to one topic/message per slide
- Avoid too many individual (small) items
- Try not to use all of the space of the slide
- Add spaces between different types of information/content blocks
5. Make the figures as big as possible or adjust the font size
- For all the plots you include, make sure the text is readable and all graphics are visible from at least 5 meters away.
- Make the font sizes as big as possible. For your own plots, e.g. with python, you can alter the font size for presentations (see https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/change-font-size-in-matplotlib/ )