So, several times throughout the most recent conference, I found myself wishing that the 6×6 rule was a standard teaching item in more curriculum… until I realized that most of the people presenting have probably never taken any courses in presenting, so there’s no place in formal education it could fit. So, instead, I’ll share it with people here.<\/p>\n
When crafting presentation slides, each slide should have no more than 6 lines, and each line should have no more than 6 words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There are many reasons for this, but essentially it comes down to the fact that with more than 6×6, the text on the slide starts to to be the text of your talk. This leads to your audience reading your slides, ignoring you, and ending up bored.<\/p>\n
The one exception to this I’ve found is in a case that I saw at this FOSS4G conference: the speaker spoke only French, but his slides were slightly more verbose… and in English. So even though he broke the 6×6 rule, it was effective: he was able to communicate his message in English with his slides, and his message more verbosely in French via the talk.<\/p>\n
In general though, try following the 6×6 rule. You may find it helpful to prevent you from just reading your slides at conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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