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How to Design TED-Worthy Presentation Slides (Black & White Edition): Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks Paperback – February 1, 2015

• Book 2 of 2 How to Deliver a Great TED Talk: Presentation Secrets of the World's Best Speakers
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How to Write TED-Worthy Presentations

Ted talks are synonymous with captivating presentations that leave audiences informed, inspired, and deeply engaged., the global reputation they have earned is a testament to their ability to produce exceptional content, and design polished experiences that shine both in the room and on screen..

Achieving an experience that mirrors TED's caliber is indeed attainable - especially when you have the right team supporting you. From strategic programming and scriptwriting to set design, presentational graphics , precise stage lighting, speaker coaching , and camera plots , crafting experiences that leave a lasting impact requires a range of elements and intricate details.

At Happily our bond with TED runs deep. Our Founder and CEO, Sarah Shewey, and our Head of Broadcast, Jason Wishnow are early pioneers who contributed to the foundation that has propelled TED into the global icon it is today.

Sarah Shewey, who is also the Head of Strategy at Happily, co-founded TEDActive , where she played a fundamental role in shaping a highly experiential simulcast conference that ran in parallel with the main TED event. Meanwhile, Jason Wishnow, our Head of Broadcast, stands as the visionary behind the creation of TED's video department. His leadership developed the way TED Talks are directed, filmed, and edited, contributing to their billions of views and captivating a worldwide online audience.

Tips for crafting your own TED-worthy presentations.

Incorporating these strategies and tips into your presentations will bring you closer to crafting presentations that rival the brilliance of ted. remember, it's not just about the content; it's about passion, authenticity, and effective storytelling that make the magic happen., 1. begin with impact and structure with precision.

The first moments of your presentation are invaluable. To engage your audience, waste no time in delving right into the heart of your topic. These opening sentences not only establish the tone but also act as a catalyst, immediately capturing your audience's attention and laying the groundwork for what's to come. This is an opportunity to spark curiosity that will sustain your audience's engagement throughout the entire presentation.

Structure is the backbone of an impactful presentation. Lead your audience from start to finish by adhering to a well-defined format. Kick things off with an attention-grabbing hook, delve deep into your core content, and culminate with a powerful message or call to action. To create a cohesive presentation, consider starting with the end in mind—begin by developing the message you want your audience to carry away and resonate with, and then work backward to build your narrative.

For expert guidance in structuring your presentation for maximum impact, the Happily Strategy Studio can help you create a presentation that builds the message you want to convey.

2. Craft a Compelling Narrative with Clarity

Elevating your presentation involves mastering the art of storytelling. Weave relatable narratives, share personal experiences, and sprinkle real-life examples throughout your talk to create a memorable impact. In balance with this, embrace conciseness. Keep your presentation focused, eliminating any unnecessary content.

The 18-minute time limit is a hallmark of TED Talks. Among other reasons, this constraint challenges speakers to distill their ideas into a concise and impactful format. Jason Wishnow touches on the reasoning behind this duration in his own TEDxEast Talk below.

For further assistance in refining your speech, the Happily Creative Studio and our skilled scriptwriters are here to help you polish and edit your presentation to perfection.

3. Leverage Visual Aids Effectively

Elevate your presentation by making strategic use of visual aids, multimedia elements, or props that seamlessly align with your message. It's crucial to keep in mind that visuals should enhance and amplify your content rather than overshadow it. The key is to maintain a clean and uncluttered visual narrative, avoiding excessive text.

For polished visual design that mirrors the essence of your presentation, our Happily Creative Studio can craft presentation graphics that resonate harmoniously with your content, ensuring a visually compelling and impactful experience.

4. Ignite Your Passion and Embrace Your Authenticity

Embed your presentation with a sincere passion for your subject. Let your enthusiasm keep your audience engaged. Moreover, authenticity is your ally—be true to yourself during your presentation. Authenticity builds trust and cultivates a genuine connection with your audience, allowing them to relate to your message on a personal level.

Avoid the temptation to imitate other TED Talks that you may have admired. Each presenter is unique, and trying to mimic someone else's style or stage presence can detract from your authenticity. Instead, embrace your individuality and let it shine through in your presentation.

For those looking to shine with confidence on stage and in front of the camera, the Happily Broadcast Studio and our Head of Broadcast, Jason Wishnow, can guide you with tailored advice and insights.

5. Engage Your Audience and End with Inspiration

Foster engagement by actively involving your audience through thought-provoking questions, reflective pauses, or intellectually stimulating activities, just as the TEDActive conferences have exemplified. Much like TED's own slogan, 'ideas worth spreading,' your presentation should aim to ignite discussions and inspire action.

As you wrap up your talk, provide constructive solutions to challenges or infuse inspiration into your audience. Leave them with a lasting sense of empowerment and equip them with a key takeaway that not only resonates but also sparks discussions with others. In doing so, you embody the essence of TED, where ideas aren't just shared; they are seeds planted for a broader conversation, leaving your audience inspired and eager to take your message beyond the confines of the presentation room.

The Happily Experiential Studio specializes in crafting immersive experiences for your audience and attendees, igniting organic networking and fostering meaningful conversations.

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How to build a TED Talk-worthy presentation

If you’ve experienced the challenge of developing and/or delivering an important presentation to a good-sized audience, there’s a chance you hoped it would go as well as a TED Talk—those incredibly well regarded presentations first popularized by the TED Foundation in the mid 2000s. TED Talks are often considered the “Everest” of engaging, informative presentations. Killing it on the TED stage is significant.

So with the intention of acting as your presentation sherpa, this article offers 8 steps to give you the best chance of building and delivering a TED Talk-worthy presentation.

TED Talks. People listen.   ‍

TED is a nonprofit with a mission to “spread ideas.” It began as a one-off conference (on technology, entertainment and design) in 1984—eventually evolving to a point where it launched an audio and podcast series called TED Talks .

From the history page on their site:

“ The first six TED Talks were posted online on June 27, 2006. By September, they had reached more than one million views. TED Talks proved so popular that in 2007, the TED website was relaunched around them, giving a global audience free access to some of the world’s greatest thinkers, leaders and teachers.”

As a result of their success and popularity, TED Talks have inspired many other presentation-centric activities and events—such as conference keynotes and investor fundraising “demo days.”

What makes a TED Talk?

TED presenters arrive from all walks of life, and although their TED Talks span a wide range of topics, they all share a few characteristics:

• 18 minutes or less. This is a TED rule, initiated by their founder, Chris Anderson, and also backed by scientific research . The basic premise is 18 minutes is long enough to do the job, but short enough to avoid having your audience begin to lose interest.
• A big idea, worth sharing. Again, straight from TED. But expecting to deliver a compelling presentation that relays several meaty ideas in under 20 minutes is wishful thinking. By focusing on a single, compelling concept—you ensure maximum impact and can more successfully communicate key points.
• Large audience, sizable venue. One-to-one, or one-to-few presentations delivered in a meeting or conference room play by different rules. We’re not addressing those here.

8 steps to the TED Talk mountain top

TED Talks are so well done they can almost seem magical. But it isn’t wizardry that makes them so compelling. In fact, there’s a formula you can follow—8 steps that will allow your presentations to deliver similar impact:

Step 1: Know your audience

This is fundamental for maximizing the success of any communication. In order to relay your “big idea” in the most effective way, you need to understand what your audience knows and cares about. Then tailor your presentation appropriately.

If you’re presenting to a new or relatively unknown audience, there are some quick ways to gather intel—such as researching and reading an applicable Reddit thread, or having a quick conversation with someone who’s more familiar.

Step 2. Scout your venue

As a general rule, the background of your slides should match the room in which you’re presenting. It’s not uncommon for large venues to be darkened so the visual focus is on what’s on stage. In some instances, however, stage environments can be illuminated or even a specific color or color theme. Matching slide backgrounds to the specifics of your venue can be very effective—allowing eyes to be drawn to the presentation’s content, not the full outline of the slides themselves.

Keep audience viewing angles and distance in mind as well. You want them on the edge of their seats, but not because they’re leaning forward and squinting to try and make out your tiny words.

Step 3. Think about your presentation as a whole

Your presentation is a story. It should flow from start to finish, and you should understand the primary points you want to make along the way. Look for the “big opportunities” and use your slides to truly highlight them. Not every slide should “Wow!” Some should be supportive and lead up to your key points—just like scenes in a movie plot. If every slide (or every scene) is intense, nothing will stand out. Outlines, index cards or sticky notes can be helpful at the early stages when you’re planning the arc of your story.

Step 4. One concept per slide (okay, maybe two)

To successfully make a point, you need your audience to be able to focus in and “get it.” So instead of asking a single slide to carry the load of relaying multiple concepts, put the second (or third or fourth) on their own slides. It can even make sense to relay a single concept across multiple slides. This allows the speaker to spend more time on it without losing momentum.

In some instances, you may be starting with a recycled slide your presenter happens to love—although you can see it’s relaying too many things. In such a case, ask the presenter to literally present the slide to you, and listen for the one (or maybe two) key messaging concepts they’re trying to relate. Build the new slide content to support those, and put everything else in the speaker notes.

Working with a client to distill a keynote’s story down to a few big, clarified points can be difficult work. But if we’re successful, the result is truly transformative. David Mack Co-founder, SketchDeck

Step 5. Minimalize

The slides are there to support your presenter—not to steal the show. The focus should be on speaker. Think single graphics and/or few words over phrase. Think phrase over sentence. Sentence over… (don’t even THINK about multiple sentences). You don’t want the audience to start reading, and stop listening.

The slide content is supporting the message, not relaying it. Everything on your slides should be meaningful. No placeholders, watermarks, headers or footers. If you haven’t determined this already, using your standard company presentation template probably isn’t a good idea. (Looking for an event or presentation specific presentation template? SketchDeck can help with that!)

Step 6. Maintain top quality

This is a premium presentation, and it needs to look and feel that way. No grainy photos, watermarked stock images, family snapshots, placeholder text or clip art. Just. Don’t. Do it. This is a day for Tiffany’s, not Target.

Step 7. Consider motion

Videos and animation can add a different and engaging dimension to your presentation. If done well, they offer a level of cinematic drama that can enhance the magic of a live performance.  But keep the previous steps in mind if you go this route. Every visual element needs a reason to be there. Everything must help tell the story.

Step 8. Get a great presenter

The reality is a speaker can make or break a presentation. A bad presenter can ruin a perfect presentation. And as much as it pains us to write this, a great presenter doesn’t really need slides (see Step 5 above). Therefore, if you’re presenting, practice—ideally in front of someone who will be brutally honest. You should also consider hiring a coach.

SketchDeck recommends taking the presentation to a small, controlled audience a week or so before the event to see how it delivers. Not only is it a great practice opportunity, it allows time for last minute adjustments.

And most importantly, hear feedback and adapt accordingly. If you’re not the presenter, ask whoever is to do the same. Great presenters are not born. It takes work, and the vast majority of that work is done before a speaker steps on stage.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain

The big day

The audience is rapt… pin drop silent. Elegant slides flip in perfect timing behind your delivery. You pause—at just the right point—confidently adjusting the cuffs of your black turtleneck.

“They’re mine,” you think. And you’re right.

Fired up to blow away your next audience? So are we. SketchDeck would love to partner with you to help make your next presentation TED Talk-worthy.

Additional resources

https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks

https://synapsiscreative.com/5-best-slide-decks-tedx/

https://blog.ted.com/10-tips-for-better-slide-decks/

Rob Lewczyk

• Originally published on January 30, 2020

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I was duped!

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Handful of Good Scripts

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I wish I had chosen a hard copy of the book…

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Valuable information - poor performance

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For TED Talks fans

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make sure to practice

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Narration in the book is fully similar to the name

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Publisher's summary

How to Design TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is your secret to designing sexy presentations.

How to Design (and Deliver) TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides.

It is based on an extensive analysis of some of the best TED speakers, such as Brene Brown, Daniel Pink, Amy Cuddy, Larry Lessig, Seth Godin, Bill Gates and many, many more.

Included in the book are sample sexy slides from TED talks, as well as from across the web, to help you master the art of presentation design .

Learn how to breathe life into your slides, instead of draining it out of your audience.

By the end of this guide, you too will be able to create sexy presentation slides that keep your audiences mesmerized . More importantly, you will be able to design presentations that breathe life into your slides, instead of draining it out of your audience.

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• The most common mistake most presenters make - and how you can avoid it
• The one principle that will make you better than 90% of most speakers
• How to quickly create a presentation storyboard
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• The Seth Godin presentation formula
• The importance of contrast
• Locating and using sexy fonts
• Spicing up your presentations with video
• Displaying data without being dull
• Ensuring consistency between slides
• How to deliver a great TED talk (or any other speech or presentation)
• And much, much more

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Some tips, mostly selling at first.

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What disappointed you about How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks?

The book is extremely repetitious. It clearly appears the author had little to say, so padded the book to make it appear to have more information than it does. It was not at all helpful. I do not like writing a negative review, but the book actually angered me in how it fell so far short of being as advertised. I did listen to it (audible version) rather than reading it. It may be the print version would be better, but I doubt it.

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The Superstar Scoop: How To Design Ted-Worthy Presentation Slides

Have you ever noticed how most TED and TEDx presentations have such beautiful, simple and compelling slideshows? 

Presentations slides are an awesome tool for speakers. I personally love them and use visuals in almost every presentation I give. 

But they can also be an opportunity to really screw up. 

Slides can be boring. They can be ugly. They can be superfluous, they can be distracting. In short, slides can often impede your message rather than support it.

In today’s video and article, I share 5 things you can do to have TED-worthy visuals for any presentation. 

After watching hundreds of Ted and TedX talks, I noticed certain slideshow best practices among the most compelling talks, and I want to share those with you. 

#1: One concept per slide. Don’t try to pack 5 different points into one slide. Stick to one – and while you’re at it, keep that one SIMPLE and ELEGANT. 

#2: Use images that evoke emotion in the audience. Don’t make your whole presentation only “from the neck up” – make sure to involve the heart, and you’ll have people leaning forward. Images are my favorite way to do that.

Notice how you feel right away when you see this: 

#3: Use data, and illustrate that data with graphics . 

For example, instead of listing your data points, turn them into a compelling picture: a pie chart, a bar graph, or something even more creative (see the example below) that illustrates your point without a whole bunch of numbers and text on the page.

* Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?

#4: Step AWAY from the bullet points! Most of my slides are simply an image – an image to represent a specific metaphor, analogy, story or emotion. 

Notice how TED speakers rarely have text on their slides. When they do, it's often just one or two words. And instead of using cropped images, they'll use one big full frame image. 

They use up all the slide real estate that they have – sometimes all with just one image.

What’s worked for me: find yourself a great stock images site (like istockphoto.com, which has wonderful mix of conceptual and emotional images) and get yourself a subscription. Replace all that text with IMAGES. 

Remember: one slide per concept. 

Which leads me to #5: Design. Having beautiful design is so important and it's so easy. Less is MORE. Stay away from the PowerPoint templates. Just stick with plain, full sized images on a screen with one or two words. 

Keep simple: simple fonts, simple colors, simple layout. In other words, don't over -design. 

That means ONE basic font color (like white if your slides are black, or dark gray if your slides are white) plus (optional!) ONE accent color. And one normal font (like Helvetica) and perhaps ONE accent font (though many times these look messy). 

* Ian Firth: Bridges should be beautiful | TED Talk

All that said, keep in mind that some of the BEST Ted Talks ever had NO slides! 

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Michelle Villalobos is the CEO of Superstar Activator. She is a speaker and mentor whose mission is to help influencers, thought leaders and other “superstars” find new business models and “Big Back End” income streams to monetize their magic. She’s the author of the upcoming book “Small Events Big Impact,” which will be THE definitive guide for designing, filling and profiting from retreats and seminars. Michelle holds an MBA, brand new CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation, and is a member since 2016 of the NSA Million Dollar Speakers Group. 

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