Visual Storytelling
and Slide Design
Graphics are the second character in your TED-style talk.
Visual storytelling is the feature we often remember in great TED talks. It’s the stunning slide decks of images, audio, and visualizations that simplify the complex and evoke the emotion.
SESSIONS 5-6: Visual Storytelling & Slide Design
We need great visuals.
In an information-dense environment your audience expects more: engaging content that cuts through the clutter. In a TEDx talk, visual storytelling speaks to our visually wired brains where everything is processed faster and with deeper meaning. More than half (65%) of your audience will be visual learners.
That’s why sessions 5 and 6 of the 10 session coaching package are dedicated to developing your slide deck and visual storytelling. Your coach will also assign homework with insightful feedback.
TEDx talk slide design is purposeful.
We employ slides sparingly to enhance and embrace the speaker and the Big Idea.
NEXT STEP: Purposeful Movement & Rehearsal
Example TED-style Visual Storytelling videos
Get visually inspired by TED talks
Eli Pariser, Author and Activist
Beware online “filter bubbles”
Author Eli Pariser makes the case that news and search results personalized to individual tastes are a disservice to users and democracy.
Visual storytelling: Uniform slide theme (social media artwork) highlight the key thoughts without repeating the speaker.
Got a wicked problem?
First, tell me how you make toast
Author Tom Wujec illustrates how co-workers with different thought processes come together to deconstruct and solve the same problem.
Visual storytelling: Graphics take viewers inside a sketchbook troubleshooting the idea.
Tom Wujic, Author and Editor
John Maeda, Design Visionary
How art, technology, and design inform creative leaders
Experience Chief John Maeda paints a picture of how art, design, and even fonts have visually informed us over the years.
Visual storytelling: Rethinking everyday items and organizations through a designer’s eyes.