Goal: minimize cognitive load for the audience to communicate your ideas. Running examples tend to be good helpful for people.
resist the urge to tell people too much
reasonable checklist
- time
- prior knowledge
- av constraints
notice: unrelated text could be subdued.
Mykel’s Research Tips
- don’t jump directly to an outline (open with something)
- number the slides
- try to have some humor
Some techniques
- To emphasize a single idea, put them in isolation in a single sentence
- Introduce naive solutions, then show how your solution is better
- Iteratively build up the problem while showing what’s hard