Speaker 1: In today's video, I want to talk about the five do's and don'ts that you guys should keep in mind when you guys are doing your Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations, so that way you keep them engaging, professional, and also very, very clean and minimalistic in order to stand out amongst your peers and just deliver an amazing presentation. Without further ado, let's just jump right in. The first do I have is to keep it visually appealing. Now, you can do so by using high-quality images to enhance your message. Try to avoid small pixelated images where if you rescale them, it's just going to be really blurry and pixelated. But try to look for a high-quality image source online where you could actually just rescale it into full size, and it would have no problem. So that way, it doesn't blur up or it doesn't scale weird when you're projecting it on a projector or on a big screen. You should also incorporate consistent colors and fonts to make it look very clean, and opposed to everything just being very, very cluttered and just, you know, very sporadic in colors, right? The don't I want to point out is don't overcrowd your slides. Now, even though I mentioned use high-quality images, make sure you don't use too many images in your PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides presentation to the point where the audience doesn't even know where to look at or what's even going on anymore. You want to be able to maintain a clear and uncluttered layout to make sure that the audience could easily follow along from slide to slide, rather than having too many things and just having your audience's eyes just jumble everywhere all at once, right? The second do I have is to use concise and clear text. Limit the amount of text that you put in every slide, and don't put too much to read, right? Audiences don't want to read too much, so make sure you just chop it up into bullet points, and maybe just spice it up a little bit, right? You want to just add little backgrounds, add little underlines and little accent lines here and there to make it look clean and professional. And again, it's very important to use bullet points instead of long paragraphs, like I said, because using bullet points is very easy for audiences to read and just keep their eyes on the side, rather than having a long paragraph where people are just going to nose off because it's just way too long to read, right? A don't that I want to mention is don't use small fonts. Always use fonts that are legible and always use fonts that are easy to scale and easy to read. I know that sometimes you want to have a very, very minimalistic and aesthetic slide with cursive fonts, perhaps, or blocky fonts just to make it look cool, right? But just stay clear of that. Just try to stay minimalistic. Get a clear font size, perhaps maybe 16-point font or higher, because any smaller than that, no one's going to, you know, bat an eye to read it and squint really far away to read that. So just make sure that you keep a good font size, at least 16-point font or higher, for your bullet points and your writing. The third do I have is to maintain a clear logical structure. Now, this means always splitting up the slides depending on, you know, your structure of your presentation, right? Maybe the first one could be intro, could be a first point, second point, conclusion, a reference. Instead of combining like two different points or three different points all at once in one slide, just so that way it keeps a very nice structure and a very nice flow. In any case that the audience has any questions or something comes up within a slide, you won't get into the second point until later on when you hit next, right? Make sure you use big, bold headings and subheadings to also guide your audience through your presentation, just so they could follow along and go from top to bottom or left to right depending on how you format your presentation. A don't that I want to mention here is don't use clashing colors, right? Sure, you may have big text, sure, you may have legible text, but don't have clashing colors where it's very hard to see something in the background and it's, you know, very hard to distinguish what's in the background and what's in the foreground. And again, it's really, really important that you control the opacity of the background as well as making sure that the colors contrast, right? Again, it really just gives off an unprofessional vibes if you use colors that are really hard to read and really hard to blend together and opposed to actually knowing your color theory a little bit where you could research online on what color schemes look better. I personally use the website Color Hunt myself, but again, you can look at other color schemes where colors contrast and they actually complement each other to make it easy for your audience to read and follow along. The fourth do is to utilize multimedia elements. Now, what does this mean? You can include videos, you can include audio clips, right? You can include gifs, images, icons, whatever it may be to make your presentation look more visually appealing. Make sure you use these elements strategically to emphasize your key points. So place them in places where they're relevant, right? If someone's saying a quote and there's an audio clip of it, play it when your slide of the quote is playing or you want to play the sounds of an ocean to demonstrate the waves because you're presenting about a beach, right? And a very important don't is don't put on too many excess animations. Now, I know everybody gets hyped on animations and we're all like, okay, we can animate this, we could get that transition going, this going. Sometimes too much animations is just not good, right? Again, it leaves your presentation very, very unprofessional because these presentations are supposed to get the point across, right? You're not supposed to make every single text spin, make this thing spin, flip, or do all these crazy entrances. Just make some nice smooth animations if you really want to and just don't overuse it, right? Use it on special parts of the presentation where something is supposed to be revealed or a nice transition is supposed to happen. Don't always use it on every single slide or on every single text piece. Now, number five is obviously do practice and rehearse your presentation just to make sure that everything goes well and smoothly. Like I said, sometimes when you project to a different projector or different aspect ratio of a screen, things may not pop up the right way or things may not pop up the way you want it to, right? Some scaling might be off. Maybe the arrows are a little bit in different sizes. The little shapes and elements that you added are in different sizes. So make sure you practice, rehearse, and most importantly, make sure you try out your presentation on the computer that you're going to present at along with the projector as well. Don't forget to also look at the timing of your presentation. Make sure the timing works. Make sure all the animation works and just make sure everything works in general just so that way when you're presenting, you're not surprised if anything doesn't work or you've already fixed that issue if something wasn't working because I know that there's a lot of incompatibility versions. Now, this doesn't happen a lot with Google Slides, obviously, because Google Slides usually use the same version no matter which browser you're on since it's cloud-based. But if you have a software like PowerPoint and you're presenting on an outdated computer like a PowerPoint 2003 and you have the PowerPoint 2023 version, obviously, that's 20 years apart, you're going to definitely run into some incompatibility issues. So be sure you get that fixed so you don't have any technical issues during your presentations. Now, these are all the five do's and don'ts that I have for you guys in terms of Google Slides and PowerPoint presentations. If you enjoyed the video, don't forget to hit the like and hit the subscribe button down below and I'll see you guys all in the next video.