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slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations |  | Author: Nancy Duarte
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 900
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 296
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0596522347
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.452
EAN: 9780596522346
ASIN: 0596522347
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
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Product Description
No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology fills that void.
Written by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands. With slide:ology you'll learn to:
- Connect with specific audiences
- Turn ideas into informative graphics
- Use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively
- Create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily
- Develop truly influential presentations
- Utilize presentation technology to your advantage
Millions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced -- and most of them miss the mark. slide:ology will challenge your traditional approach to creating slides by teaching you how to be a visual thinker. And it will help your career by creating momentum for your cause.
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 Slideology March 2, 2010
Dave John Kootman
Good book with lots of examples and rationale. Of course you expect good design from a book on design...
The presentation book you must own March 2, 2010
Zen Faulkes (Edinburg, TX United States)
I like to think that I do not suck at presentations. I like to think that I've thought reasonably hard about them. I like to think I've got a better understanding of presentations than most people.
Then a book like Slide:ology comes out.
Wow.
Suddenly I realize how much more there is to think about and how much more there is to learn.
This is a deep book. From concept to final execution, from typesetting to data to missions to colour palettes, it's all in there. And all with a careful attention to craft and detail.
I suspected it this book would be good, but this completely exceeded any expectations. Indeed, reading this book made me upset at how low my expectations were. It expands horizons, on par with books like Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information or Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
To say this book "raises the bar" would be unfair, because raising the bar doesn't catch how dramatically and substantially this book surpasses everything else. It's far beyond anything else that I've seen on the subject. Other books on presentations raised the bar. This one goes into high Earth orbit.
I would love to see this book in a hardcover edition, perhaps with larger pages or larger text. Because I know this book is going to get re-read, referred to, handled, browsed, passed to students in my lab, and get beat up and worn out through constant use.
 It's more about communication February 28, 2010
Sami Sultan (San Diego, CA)
There has been some debate, although from minority, on the value of this book. I design corporate presentations and have to admit that there isn't enough of these books out there. It's about time someone tackled the topic. The title of this book gives the impression that it's about PPT and how to create better slides. Actually, it's because PPT is the most popular and accessible presentation application, the book is addressing "slideware" business. Presentations can be developed using film, illustrations, props, product demo, etc. However, the concepts within the book are more geared towards those presenters that address wider audiences and have more resources. Nothing wrong with that. Not everyone will be a Steve Jobs (Apple). It's a niche, and Nancy's book doesn't make any qualms about it.
Personally, I've benefited from it and Carr's as well: My slides are cleaner, simpler, and communicate better. It's not expected that all of us working in the corporate world will be given the opportunity to design "slides" that way. It has to do with the culture of the company and the settings surrounding the delivery. Delivering a technical review to a small team is different from introducing a new idea to a prospective venture capitalist. I gave it 4 stars due to the fact that I was clamoring for more of her world-class presentations to be included. Thank you Nancy. Awaiting the sequel :)
Perfect for any business February 22, 2010
D. Iwanow (Brisbane, Australia)
Why couldn't I have a book like this when I was struggling with make my university presentations amazing!
Adding artsy feeling to your presentation January 11, 2010
petzzz
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gave me a whole new perspective in building presentation slides. It's for people who already have the basic skill of building a mediocre presentation to advance to the next level, to make their presentation slides stand out from others. That's why some readers may not find it suitable as most business environments settle on mediocre presentations.
I emphasized on the word "slide" because this book as its title suggests, puts more focus on building slides, the how-to part, which in my point of view, is a skill that you should learn only if you already figured out the objective and what-to-say of your presentations. For more basic but essential skill of presentation planning, I suggest "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" by author Carmine Gallo.
I enjoyed reading behind-the-scene stories about some well known presentation making processes such as Al Gore's. And this book made me much more interested in graphic design. Duarte, the company behind this book, seems like an exciting place to work for!
It took me time to go thru the whole book because:
1. I wanted to take time to digest and try out each point at my work presentations
2. This book's rather odd shape and heavy weight makes it difficult to be carried around
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