These days, it's not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations-anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You're not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do? Enter Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designer's designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer's Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography. In The Non-Designer's Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer's series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as applied to digital presentations, and adds four more principles specific to clear communication with slides. Whether you work with a Mac or PC, PowerPoint or Keynote, let Robin guide you, in her signature, light-hearted style, through the entire process of creating a presentation-from using the right software to organizing your ideas to designing effective, beautiful slides that won't put your audience to sleep. In this essential guide to presentation design, you'll learn: * What makes a good presentation or a bad one * How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation * Four principles of designing effective presentations * Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly * An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules...that you should totally ignore

Robin Williams是世界著名的设计师、技术专家和畅销书作家。通过写书和授课，她已经影响了整整一代数字设计师。同时，作为Adobe和Mac技术社区内的偶像级专家，她拥有大批的拥戴者。她是Publish Magazine、Adobe Magazine等杂志的专栏作家，是MacWorld Expo等业界重要活动和组织的顾问委员会成员，还创办了Santa Fe电影艺术学院。除本书外，她还著有几十部畅销图书和获奖著作，包括The Non-Designer's Web Book、Robin WilliamsDesign Workshop、TheLittleMacBook等．有的书已被翻译为15种文字，产生了世界性的影响。