Deck Design for People Who Know Things

Anthony Greiter's 40/30/1 Rule treats every element on a slide as a communication choice. If it does not help the audience understand, it gets in the way. There is no neutral in slide design.

A peer reviewed guide covering slide design, data presentation, and delivery for scientific researchers. Built around cognitive processing principles and tested across academic institutions over a decade.

Written by a scientist for scientists. The ten most common ways researchers undermine their own data with poor figure design, and exactly how to fix each one before the next conference.

Tufts University's guide to slide design for researchers. Covers visual hierarchy, font consistency, bullet point avoidance, and how to design slides that serve the audience rather than the presenter.

Slides are a visual aid, not a script. If you are reading from your slides, you have already lost the room. A practical guide to using PowerPoint the right way in scientific presentations.

Reports follow documentation structure. Presentations follow storytelling structure. Scientists who confuse the two end up with slides that are accurate, comprehensive, and completely impossible to follow.

PowerPoint is not a teleprompter. Scientists who use it as one lose the room every time. Five simple, immediately actionable fixes for the most common slide design mistakes researchers make.