Keynote Tutorial , Sound is a design,too

When Steve Jobs unveiled iPad at the first, everyone expected that the price of iPad would be over 999 dollar. And then Steve Jobs broke the expectation with 499 dollars. But, it wasn’t stop with that. Steve Jobs dramatically showed the price of iPad at Keynote event.

When he firstly showed the price, he used a sound effect breaking a glass with visual animation on the slide. And the direction of the show was so dramatic and made it sense to the audience. I think that the sound engraved the moment on the brain of audience.

Through this tutorial we will learn how to use a sound effect in Keynote and then we will make a dramatic effect with a sample sound that I provide for you.

As a result, you will get the idea that we don’t have to limit our design with jus visual graphics. A sound is invisible. But, sometimes it is more effective than a visible thing.

Watch the trailer of this tutorial below

How should we use a sound clip on presentation design?

Using a sound clip on your presentation shouldn’t be frequent. Too many sound effects could be bad to the audience’s attention.

Always be careful to use a sound clip with animations or transitions in Keynote.

The sound clip should have a right meaning of your scene.

Think about Steve Jobs. His message was ‘The expectation of the price is broken.’ So the message , the animations and the sound clip shared a consistent theme to direct the scene.

Keynote can control your sound clip with animations.

Keynote provides two animations to control your sound clip.

First one is starting a sound clip and the other one is stopping a sound clip. If you have more sound clips than the only one sound clip in your slide , you can create a sound sequence with those animations.

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Keynote Tutorial Text Format - Make your font consistent

Text is essential for your presentation. There is no presentation which does not have a text. By the way the gap between ideal presentation and real presentation is too big. Still many presentations are conquered by texts. Too many texts make people boring and gone from your presentation. So I would like to suggest a practical way to make your presentation better. Selecting a right font is very important to make your text better to read.

Select a sans serif type font than serif type font. And secondly don’t select too many fonts for your presentation. I prefer 1 or 2 fonts. One more thing is Keynote supports a special effect which calls ‘Text morphing’ and it is great to use a different type of font between slides.

Make a paragraph style in Keynote

Keynote provides a style function which you can use a pre-defined paragraph style to text objects in Keynote. The great reason to use the style is because you can easily manage multiple texts at once and also it helps you to keep your text format consistent.

Select a right font in Keynote

When you select a font, you have to think about the audience at the first. Sometimes people like to use a font to present his/her personality. But, that’s not a first priority. Think about it is a readable font for your audience. Is the audience far from the screen able to read the text? That’s the point.

Text morphing in Keynote

Keynote’s magic move provide a special effect which calls text morphing. It automatically putting a smooth animation between slides. Each slide’s text object should be set up different fonts to maximize the effect.

As I mentioned above, a text is the essential for your presentation. There is no presentation without texts. To make your text better, try the steps above in Keynote. It will make your presentation solid, legible and consistent.

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Time machine gives error "can't connect to a current time machine backup disk"

I suddenly faced this error. But, my time machine’s backup process was fine. The problem was occurred when I tried to run the time machine app to restore a data from previous backups. And the error message always came up.

can’t connect to a current time machine backup disk

So I tried to fix it by rebooting my mac and it doesn’t work. I thought that the networking wouldn’t be an issue to cause this problem. because my time machine was wired to my iMac through thunderbolt.

Folder’s Permission issue

I noticed that the time machine backup folder was not accessible. I tried to change the permission of the folder on Finder. But, it wasn’t possible. So I tried other way which is using Pathfinder app.

And I changed the permission to read the folder and owner of the folder from root to my account. After that the time machine data was finally accessible.

It was great because I could restore my backup which meant I didn’t lose my data. So if you have a problem like this, try to change the permission and the owner of the folder.
I think that if you don’t have Pathfinder app, you can use a command line tool to change them.

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Keynote Tutorial Text Outline - Make your animation meaningful

When people see Keynote at first, mostly they are impressed by Keynote’s fantastic animation effects. I did that, too. But, you have to be careful before you use an animation, because an animation which doesn’t have a clear reason to use could cause a bad experience for your audience.

So through this tutorial I would like to engage you into implementing a meaningful animation with a text outline function of Keynote. In this case the core message of this animation is ‘we need to break a stereotype of our business model’.

Check out the trailer video below,

As you saw, the animation has a clear meaning to use. So I hope that you think it again when you try to create an animation in your slide.

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Keynote Tutorial How to improve your bullets

Keynote Tutorial - How to improve your bullets by using Keynote

A bullet point based text is widely used on the presentation. But, the problem of the use is that a whole text of the bullet points are suddenly shown to the audience. And then the audience would feel burden to the amount of texts on the slide. So we need to improve the way to deliver the bullet text. And with Keynote you can easily improve the bullets.

So here is a trick that you can practically use on your future presentation. When you deliver several bullet points, you can animate them with Keynote’s bullet images. As a result, your audience will follow each bullet animation. This gives us a power to control the audience’s attention.

I always have thought about how the design should be worked on a presentation. Most people never think about it seriously. We have various design elements on Keynote such as text , shape , image , video , table , chart and animation. These elements should be designed with a clear objective. In this example you can learn how you design bullets better on your presentation.

This is a brief introduction of my video tutorial which calls ‘Final Keynote’ and I will put my experience and knowlege of Keynote presentation design into the tutorials.

So stay tuned!

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3 reasons I recommend Principle for Mac

Principle for Mac was developed by the previous Apple engineer ‘Daniel Hooper’. And I think that he made such a remarkable application which easily animates your Sketch design.

We already know that there are various prototyping animation tools. Framers, Flinto, UXPin, Invisionapp and so on… But, I think that Principle for Mac has a potentional to be populated among designers.

3 reasons that I recommend Principle for you

First, Principle makes a great quality animation based on your design. You might think Framer as one of the best UI animation tool in this area. I agree with it. By the way Principle seems that it doesn’t fall behind Framer in the race. Look at the animation that I created with Principle below.

Second, Principle is really easy to learn and use. I think that the weakness of Framer is not to easy. You have to learn Javascript or Coffeescript to create an animation. If you already have an experience to code, it could be no problem. But, I guess that mostly designers wouldn’t be good at coding. Designers are normally reactive to visible things or objects. Photoshop, illustrators and Sketch, those tools which desingers use everyday follows that notion.

Therefore Principle for Mac tries a different approach from Framer. Principle for Mac has almost same interface like Sketch which UI designers mostly use in these days. So you don’t need to learn the interface of Principle.

Also, Principle’s way to animate between artboards is like using Magic Move on Keynote. Let me say that it just works!

Third, Principle has various options to share your animation. Principle can export an animation work to an independent Mac app. So even though an user doesn’t have Principle for Mac, he or she can open and run it on his/her Mac. And it can also export animations to video or animated GIF file. I love this feature. I can share animations from Principle through all kind of channels, Facebook, Messanger, Twitter, Dribble, etc.

I think Principle team strategically put this into Principle for marketing.

Some ideas for Principle for Mac

Principle recently released version 1.2. And I think that they are rapidly updating Principle in the near future.

Through my experience I come up with several ideas for Principle.

• More options to control audio and video layers’ properties.
• Easily add a typing animation
• Share the animation through web
• AppleScript support

Principle Examples

Principle References

• Principle for Mac
• Principle Repo

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LG found their own path.

I think that LG tries to be the best. It finally found their own path to innovate.

LG succeeded to put a finger print sensor into their smarthphone’s screen.

According to this What is Apple going to do with their iPhone7? I hope that Apple does this thing,too.

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