Akash Karia - How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks (How to Give a TED Talk)

A Crash Course
How to Design TED-Worthy Presentation Slides

Presentation Design Principles from TED Talks

by AKASH KARIA
best-selling author of How to Deliver a Great TED Talk
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Excellent, practical guide.
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HOW TO DELIVER TED-WORTHY PRESENTATION SLIDES IS YOUR SECRET TO DESIGNING SEXY PRESENTATIONS

How to 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.

Not convinced yet? Heres just a taste of what youll learn inside the book:

• 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
• Bill Gates trick for transforming his slides from dull to dashing
• 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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my Mum and Dad, Nisha and Paresh Karia, for always being there for me.

I would also like to thank the following people, whose work I am heavily indebted to: Eugene Cheng, Sir Ken Robinson, Daniel Pink, Nick Morgan, Becky Blanton, Simon Sinek, Chiara Ojeda, Amy Cuddy, Garr Reynolds, Nancy Duarte, Al Gore, Steve Farnsworth, Nilofer Merchant, Bill Gates, Carmine Gallo, Larry Lessig, Dr. John Medina, Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Emiland, Alex Rister, Darren Rowse, Brene Brown, Stuart Firestein, Sebastian Wernick, Rachel Botsman, George Papandreou, Paul Kemp-Robertson, Tim Harford, Douglas Kruger, Pankaj Ghemawat, Dan Pallato, Tim Leberecht, Wolfgang Kessling, Julian Treasure, Guy Kawasaki, and Nic Marks.

I am also heavily indebted to the following organizations: TED, Ethos3, Microsoft Office, Storyful, Harvard Business Review, Slideshare, and Slides that Rock.

Thank you for doing what you do and for inspiring me to write this book!

Akash Karia

A NOTE REGARDING COPYRIGHT

In adhering with the fair use policy, I have used limited amounts of copyrighted material in order to comment upon the material and educate the general public.

For educational purposes, I have included sample slides from TED talks. Since the actual slides are not available online, I took screenshots of the slides whenever they were displayed on the TED videos. Although I am avid watcher of TED talks, please note that I have no affiliation with TED. This is a book that was developed out of my passion for visual presentations and TED talks, and I hope that more people will be exposed to TED through this book.

Furthermore, to create sample slides, I have many images that have Creative Commons licenses.

I recognize that all company and product names mentioned here are the trademarks of their respective owners. If you feel that I have violated your copyright in any way, please feel reach out to me on .

Alternatively you can contact me via my website www.AkashKaria.com and I will take appropriate measures to remove your material from this book.

You can reverse engineer almost any good design. Take apart your favorite presentations, infographics, websites and figure out how its done and remix it into something new.

- Jesse Desjardins

This book is about studying the best slides from some of the best TED talks, and to reverse-engineer them so that you too can create sexy presentation slides.

- Akash Karia

AUTHORS NOTE ON POWERPOINT

Throughout this book, I make references to using PowerPoint presentations. However, the presentation principles contained within this book are 100% applicable to you even if you are using Keynote or Prezi. It doesnt matter what presentation software youre using because as long as you follow the proven presentation principles contained within this book, you too can create outstanding slides for your next talk.

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