For those of you who don’t know who Nancy Duarte, or Duarte Design as a company is, look no further than the Oscar Award winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The creators of that impactful, and powerful presentation where those of Duarte Design.

I learned about Nancy Duarte’s book from Presentation Zen. I have to say the there are a lot of parallels between Garr Reynolds’ book and this one. They both cover slide design, development, story, etc.

There are two aspects I really liked about Nancy Duarte’s book. First, I really like the several pages of slide visualization concepts found toward the beginning of the book. The second, was the part about templates. I despise templates, because they promote a person to use Power Point to build your presentation. But, as Nancy points out, if you build a template that depicts all the different slide types that should be used, you’ll help create a more uniform and professional presentation.

Worth the money, the time, and has been a great source of reference for me.