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 enlarge | Author: Nancy Duarte
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 466
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 294
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0596522347
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.452
EAN: 9780596522346
ASIN: 0596522347
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
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 don't buy this book October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't buy this book. The text is maddeningly small and poorly contrasted. With postage stamp size visuals it's like reading a telphone book.
Get The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams and check out the website of the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations, Michael Alley for templates and research based design tips.
With these two resources you'll have everything you need without having to wade through the padding in Duarte's book.
 if you sell ideas using power point, you must buy it October 27, 2008
Since four months a go, I have been focused on how to transfer knowledge in the best way posible, studing the brain, marketing tactics, etc, how ever the visual techniques are fundamental, because human capture 80% in a visual way, so, this book teaches you several, concreat and CREATIVE ways yo manage the visual cues elements in order to send an interesting, clear and strong message or idea.
You just start at morning and finish it at evening, is very well writen and published, so, is congruent with what she say.
Technology Presenter, Changed by This Book October 20, 2008
Only since I've purchased Presentation Zen have I've been so changed by a book about presenting, education, and sharing ideas with others. This book is about the mechanics of assembling a better presentation; who better to write it than the queen of presentations, Mrs. Nancy Duarte. Just one of her claims to fame (and a rightful one at that) is designing the slides for An Inconvenient Truth, presented and turned into a movie by Mr. Al Gore.
I only wish I could afford to drop off copies of this book at the desk of every colleague that I interact and present with at DOSUG, DJUG, and beyond. The transformation that the ideas contained in this book would have on their presentations is simply phenomenal. Nancy builds incrementally on each step in the book, taking you to better and deeper approaches to improving your presentations. She gives away her insider secrets on assembling slide order (spoiler: post it notes, used in creative ways + thoughts about snow globes), and what to put (and not to put) on your slides. You'll be surprised what she tells you to leave out.
If you are a casual or professional presenter you owe it to yourself to buy a copy of this book. Your presentations will be transformed to a higher level of training for your audience.
Inspiring, Comprehensive and so well done! October 18, 2008
This book is a great book to inspire one to push beyond the mundane, and enter into an Artful
and more complete type of Presentation-- and it can be applied to any type of Presentation. I found the content to inspire me to create a unique and brilliant Presentation, not just a Presentation. This book is also concise, well constructed to easily navigate through the parts of particular interest, and it touches on "flashes of genious"-- certain examples of great work.
The inclusion of a woman's successful Presentation (the brain doctor) because of a conscious decision to use very few Slides points to this book as a Visionary book. It is not a 'how-to' book but a "think about this" type of book. It was also very beautifully laid out. The attention to every design detail was remarkable and it has become a book I recommend to everyone trying to understand the communicative concepts behind any type of Presentation-- from a business one to one more along the lines of theatre or spectacle-- because those are the Presentation of Ideas too-- albeit emotional ones. I call this an Art Book on presentations.FAUST
The best book in the field - period! October 12, 2008
Working in a world that is increasingly aliterate demands the best control of communications possible, and this starts with the tools of the graphics designer.
Clean, fast, powerful, effective communication requires using the tools to address the unique subculture of your market niche, and your graphics design team has been collecting bits and pieces, here and there, giving you the best of what they have.
If they don't have this book, they don't have enough.
This one book places all of their bits and pieces in a context of graphical communications, as well as providing many more, very useful, bits and pieces of graphic design.
Skip all you were taught, unlearn what hasn't worked, and get this book, which encapsulates the keys to the code of effective graphic communications.
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