Great presentation slides: Mike Monteiro

Monteiro has his unique presentation style. Arrogance, pressure, truth. You can either like it or hate it. We can agree however, that his slide designs are adding a lot to his carisma.

Based on 13 ways designers screw up presentations, SlideShare, Medium.

Some notes:

• Using a condensed font is a great way to write more with a huge font size.
• Meaningful imagery. No bull*shit. No boring stock photos.
• Background image has a meaning also. It’s dimmed enough to stay in the background and adds some flavour to the presentation.
• Not using bullet lists makes a lot of sense. If you can’t say it in one sentence, break it into more slides. If you can’t, don’t put it into your deck.
• All caps are ok if you are using such a big font.
• One simple “Thank You!” at the end. Adding a “Questions?” slide makes no sense. Of course you can let people ask at the end, but you can — surprise! — say it with your mouth.
• No animations! It’s not bad to use animations, but so many are doing it so wrong.

Opening: just enough information.

Section titles: clear visual hirearchy.

Text: short and visible.

Longer text: aligned to the middle for the sake of consistency.

Imagery: no bull*shit. Always meaningful.

Emphasis

Numbered lists

Asking himself: This is somewhat unique. And it has it’s own style.

Big numbers: everyone loves big numbers, right?

Comparison

Numbered slides for thoughts that belong to the same topic.

Cutting out stuff with care (it’s actually a five minute task, but it adds a lot to the experience).

Quotes

Thanks Mr. Mike!