“Living in the IT

Era”

NAME: CHRISTIAN JADE MAMARIL

COURSE & SECTION: BSA - 1A
TO BE SUMMITED TO: MR. FERDINAND RABINA
 LIVING IN THE IT ERA
HANDS-ON ACTIVITY #2
Instructions
1. Open the MS PowerPoint.
2. Design and create PowerPoint Presentation following the guidelines shown below.
3. Save your files to Google Drive.
4. Attach the URL of your file in the Google Classroom.
Guidelines in Creating Slides
Focus on clarity
• Simple graphics
• Focus on making slides easy to read and digest
• Clear tagline, which
• One slide per point/takeaway, one point per slide (generally)
• is a full sentence (some exceptions, when tagline is just a description, e.g., this slide)
• Contents that support the statement in the tagline
• Data (charts, tables, numbers)
• Conceptual framework (boxes with bullets to support logic)
• Visuals
• Selective application of additional helper elements when useful
• Tombstones (bottom of slide remarks) to call out non-obvious takeaways or overall remarks/commentary
• Category trackers (text above tagline) to make it easy to follow related topics (especially if not building a fully
flowing self-sustaining storyline) and reuse slides
• Attention to detail with language
• Parallel language (e.g., action verbs in all boxes on a slide, or descriptive nouns in all boxes on a slide)
• No spelling mistakes
• No grammar mistakes
• Proper capitalization
• Taglines: First letter capitalized
• Headings / titles: All words capitalized except conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, yet, so, for), articles (a, an,
the), and prepositions (in, to, of, at, by, up, for, off, on)
• Regular text, box contents, etc.: First letter capitalized
• Minimal use of unnecessary words (shorter is better, if meaning is intact)
Font and size guidelines

• Sans-serif fonts
• ARIAL for taglines
• Calibri for contents (boxes, bullets, other)
• • Consistent font size
• 20pt bold for taglines
• 16pt bold for category trackers, 16pt bold for box contents (sometimes smaller based on contents)
• 14pt bold for bullets (unless need to make smaller)
• 14pt bold baseline standard for charts, make smaller based on judgment (e.g., 10pt for charts with
lots of
contents, 12pt for charts with lots of contents or a generally busy slide, etc.)
• 16pt bold italics for tombstones (no box/background)
• 8pt regular for footnotes (source, notes, other)
• • Consistent shape formatting
• • 3/4pt black borders on shapes (incl., screenshots, but excl., icons and logos)
• Blue (RGB: 70, 116, 193) for regular boxes (white text)
• Yellow (RGB: 253, 191, 45) for arrows and placeholder boxes (black text)
• Judgment used for sizing icons, logos, and other visual content
• No shadows
• No background shading for bullets/tombstone, etc.
• Horizontal flow for concepts (some exceptions)
• Boxes aligned horizontally (extra info, e.g., bullets, logos, takeaways with arrows below boxes)
• Timelines and “from -> to” aligned horizontally
Chart guidelines

• Histograms and waterfall charts most common

• Horizontal x-axis preferred both for categorical and time-series data (in general, some exceptions)
• Most data shown in histogram/waterfall format
• Numbers (totals) on top, numbers in stacked charts inside chart
• Selective use of more advanced/complex chart types
• Application based on situation
• Instructions TBD
• No legends
• Arrows (3/4pt, black) and bold text (10pt/12pt/14pt) that point to chart series
• No gridlines
• Consistent colors
• Blue (RGB: 70, 116, 193) for baseline
• Yellow (RGB: 253, 191, 45) for highlighting certain series/items
• Other colors used in stacked or more complex charts (some judgment required)
• Proper use of axes
• Y-axis always starts from 0
• Charts next to each other have the same scale (some exceptions in special cases)
• No cutting of axes
• Consistent axis formatting
• Y-axes have major tick marks on the outside, X-axes have no tick marks
Heading (not tagline) guidelines

• Text is underlined and bold

• Text is capitalized
• Headings / titles: All words capitalized except conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, yet,
so, for), articles (a, an, the), and
prepositions (in, to, of, at, by, up, for, off, on)
• Font size varies depending on situation
• If only one heading of the same level (center-aligned)
• Font 16 (Arial)
• If 2-3 headings of the same level
• Font 14 (Arial)
• If only one heading, but it is for an element that fills only half of the slide (e.g.,
chart on LHS)
• Font 14 (Arial), center-align with the element
Other guidelines

• Align slide elements

• Horizontal alignment at top/bottom
• Distribute horizontally
• Distribute vertically
• Same width/height for similar elements
• Center alignment for certain visual elements (e.g., logos)
• 4:3 slide size, unless otherwise specified
• Typical for notes and internal decks
• Externally-facing or presentation-decks will more likely have 16:9 format
Sample output

(Optional)
Slide Category

Arial 16 grey
Heading
18pt, arial,bold
Standard heading capitalization

Subheading
14pt, arial, not bold
Tagline Standard heading capitalization
Arial 20pt
bold
(black)
Histogram
Usually full Data values on top,no legend
Sentence
with
active verb
tense
Black borders 3/4pt

Source 12-,14pt
8pt Arial Bold
Not bold Horizontal Alignment
Horizontal alignment
Market landscape
Some companies are big , some are smaller

Companies by Number of Costumers

$B (Worldwide)
350
300
300
250
250
220
200
200
160
150 140
120
100
50
50 30

0
Company Company Company Company Company Something Company You Company
1 2 3 4 5 Else 6 7

Source: Reliable sources (2019), accessed at www.domain.com

Why now
We should go after this market now
Why The World is Full of Opportunity

Problems exist in the People know different Technology is

The world is big enabling what was
world things
not possible

• Lots of • Companies • Experience • New ways of

Costumers business Working
challenges • Skills
• Lots of people • Better access to
to work with • Individuals • Interest information
problems
-First-world
problems (eg., getting
food delivered)
 Market landscape

Some companies are big , some are smaller

Companies by Number of Companies by Number of Cos-

$B Costumers tumers
350 (United States) $B (Europe)
300 350
300

300
250 300
250
220 250
250
200 220
200
200
160 200

150 140 160

120 150 140
120
100
100

50 50
50 50
30 30

0 0
Company Company Company Company Company Some- Company You Company Company 1 Company 2 Company 3 Company 4 Company 5 Something Company 6 You Company 7
1 2 3 4 5 thing Else 6 7 Else

Source: Reliable sources (2019), accessed at www.domain.com

 Market landscape
Some companies are big , some are smaller

Companies by Companies by Companies by

Number of Cos- Number of Cos- Number of Cos-
$B tumers $B tumers $B tumers
250 350
250
(United States) (Europe) (Asia)
300
300
202 200 202 200
200 200
250
250
165 165 160 220
160
200
150 150 200
135 135
160
150
100 100

100
50 50
50 50 50
50
20 20 20

0 0
0 Company Company Company Company Company You company
2017 2019 2021 Company Company You company 2017 2019 2021 Company Company You company
4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
4 5 6

Source: Reliable sources (2019), accessed at www.domain.com

Market landscape
Some companies are big , some are smaller

Companies by Number of Costumers

$B
350 India

300
300
250
250
220
200
200
160 Finland
150 140
120
100
50
50 30

0
Company Company Company Company Company Something Company You Company
1 2 3 4 5 Else 6 7

Source: Reliable sources (2019), accessed at www.domain.com

Background
Some companies are big , some are smaller

Key Categories of Competition

Category 1 Category 2 Category 3

logos logos logos

Some cool takeaway

Market description
Markets are huge

• Details
Total Market size
(Worldwide) • More details
$B
250 • Something interesting to point out

202 • Some more details

200
165
150 135

100

50

0
2017 2019 2021

Source: Reliable sources

Problem

Description of situation and problems

Heading Heading
(Subheading/description) (Subheading/description)

Screenshot Screenshot
OR OR
Photo Photo
OR OR
Illustration Illustration

• Bullets • Some details

• Bullet 2 • Some more details
• Bullet 3 BUT:
• Some details
• Some more details
Topics discussed

Descriptive laundry list slide ( no MECE framework, many items)

• First Thing

• Second thing
o Clarifying bullet 1
o Clarifying bullet 2

• Something else

• Even more
Solution

Our product makes life great

FROM: Old Bad Stuff TO: New Great World

Descriptive Heading Descriptive Heading

Screenshot Screenshot

OR OR

Photo Photo

OR OR

Illustration Illustration

• Details (descriptive bullet 1) • Details (descriptive bullet 1)

• Details ( descriptive bullet 2) • Details ( descriptive bullet 2)
• Details ( descriptive bullet 3) • Details ( descriptive bullet 3)
• Details (descriptive bullet 4) • Details (descriptive bullet 4)