Reflections on Designing an Effective Powerpoint Presentation

Basically designing an effective power point presentation also requires a skill. Therefore Victor Chen has come up with some useful tips to guide people in making slides for their presentation by using power point. He generally provides the 5 main ideas of how an effective presentation design should be. This include the size of the text and picture must be big enough for audience to look at.

He also emphasized on the clarity of the colour choice meaning, the contrast of colour of the text and the background colour and so on. He claimed that being progressive in making slides is also one of the criteria of good power point design because a person should only include some amount of text in each slides not too many that it will distract the audience to see what's important or major point to be highlight.

He also mentioned about being simple is important because if a person put so many things such as unnecessary picture or music, it will only distract the audience's focus on the actual point of the presentation. To ensure important point is being highlighted in the slides, he proposed that we should maintain consistency so that differences of using colour for the text will emphasize importance on that particular word or sentence.

All and all, we must strive to provide an effective power point presentation so that our goal to deliver messages and points will be well-received by the audience especially if we are presenting an idea which we believe is so important for them think of such as Dakwah etc. If we can make a good slides presentation, InsyaAllah it may assist us to achieve muslim's mission for an effective Dakwah. After all, the whole idea of Semantic knowledge is to study meaning, if we were to explain the meaning of Quran to our audience we must try to prepare and perform the presentation (dakwah) at our best.

As mentioned in Quran, Surah Al-Nahl 16: 125 "Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided."