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10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint

Guy Kawasaki makes a good case for The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.

I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

Great advice.

January 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Presentations

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Dave Fletcher // Jan 9, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    Lots of other rules about “slide visibility” - no more than 6 lines, yellow text on dark blue background, etc. BUT, all these seem to be oriented to a large projection of the image. The majority of my presentations these days are via webcast.

    Any guidelines for those presentations?

  • 2 kpont // Jan 10, 2006 at 9:49 am

    I would think you’d want to use the same guidelines for a webcast.