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How to Become a Visual Thinker: Slide:ology, the Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

PRESENTER: ERIC ALBERTSON, DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND INNOVATION AT DUARTE DESIGN

Millions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced, and most of them miss the mark. But as Eric Albertson of Duarte Design knows, it doesn’t have to be this way. In this new DesignCast, Albertson shows you how to combine basic design principles with the emotional power of story to create effective presentations that inform and activate audiences. Albertson will review and illustrate principles taught in slide:ology, the best-selling book authored by CEO of Duarte Design, Nancy Duarte. This live webcast will change your mindset and approach to presentations as an effective communication medium, and enhance your career by increasing the clarity and influence of your message.

In this DesignCast, you'll learn to:

·        Identify the needs of your audience
·        Apply storytelling tools to presentations to capture    your audience's attention
·        Turn text-heavy slides into powerful visuals
·        Use simple design principles to quickly improve the effectiveness of your slides

For nearly 10 years, Eric Albertson has worked as a presentation designer at Duarte Design, transforming information into meaningful stories, and applying principles of design to ensure that those stories are conveyed clearly, understood easily and retained readily. Eric loves helping organizations create effective presentations, and has taught the principles of presentation design to groups such as the CIA, TED, and PopTech and companies such as Cisco, Google, Nokia, and many others.

With a background in both Mechanical Engineering and puppetry, Eric is able to balance the needs of technical, corporate communication with the skill of crafting compelling stories that have the power to inspire, motivate, and persuade. In his spare time, you can find him watching movies, making movies, or making costumes and pretending that he is in the movies.

Duarte Design is a presentation design company based in Mountain View, California. Duarte’s clients include Adobe, Google, Cisco, and Electronic Arts, but the company is best known for building the presentation at the center of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; the company also collaborated with journalist Michael Pollan for his presentation about the food and farming industries at the PopTech conference last October.

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