介紹基本的平面設計概念和PPT投影片製作技巧，以及理工研究生常需使用的科學圖表製作要點，幫助學生提升簡報能力與美化投影片 ，在研討會發表與畢業口試等場合能有更好的表現。

  • Lecture exercises 隨堂作業(30%)
  • Midterm exam 期中報告(30%)
  • Final exam 期末報告(40%)

Github

9/14

Exercise 1

Introduce yourself

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Strategies

Before creating slides:

  • Audience
  • Venue
  • Hardware

Slide Aspect Ratio

  • 16:9
  • 4:3

Slide number

Useful guideline: 1 min per slide

Font size

  • Presentation: >20 points
  • Class: >24 points

Prepare Flow

  1. Overall goal / target
  2. Structure
  3. Slide design

All the slides neeed to fit the structure and serve the overall purpose

Two Methods

  • Spirit Animal
  • Present, Past, Future

Exercise 2

9/28

Teacher's Day

10/5

Typhoon holiday

10/12

Starting Simple

Four basic tips

  • Not a book
  • Visualize
  • Space a good
  • Alignment

Typography

Six Basics Types

  • Oldstyle
  • Modern
  • Slab serif
  • San serif
  • Script
  • Decorative

Exercise 3

10/19

Typography

Upper case Lower case
Attractive Easy read / Easy write

At most three different types of text font.

  • Serif + san serif
  • Consistency
  • Save the font

內嵌字型: 選項 \(\rightarrow\) 儲存 \(\rightarrow\) 在檔案內嵌字體

儲存字體，有益於在其他裝置正常使用字體並編輯文字

Colors

Tools:

  • Adobe Color
  • Colors

Tips for using colors

  • Pick one main color (6:3:1)
  • Beware of pure colors (unsaturated)
  • Adjust tint/shade/saturation

Refine slides

Shapes

Merging shapes
ex: Fragment

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Exercise 6

10/26

No class

11/02

Midterm

11/09

CRAP

  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity

Exercise 7

Using PPT to create CV

11/16

Animations

11/23

Animations

Course Exercise

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  1. Duplicate animations with the animation painter
  2. Chart animation by category

Transition

Exercise 8

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