The HIPAA Project

With the HIPAA project I worked closely with the Legal Department.  As you might imagine, they can be a tough customer as they have a tendency to be very verbose and very adamant about how the message is to be relayed.  You will want to avoid words like ad hoc or improvisation around them.

After a few preliminary meetings, I realized that the presentation was going to be very dry and very text driven.  With this in mind, I knew I would need to break up the flow of the presentation with bright energetic images.

Five things I really like from this project are:
1.  The All-White Template – This allowed me to use colorful images without them clashing with the Presenter Template.
2.  Big images – These allowed me to create real visual interest and draw the user into the project.  Also, they helped to break up monotony of bullet-driven slides.
3.  Clustering – Clusters are the artistic bunching of small, less interesting images.  When combined they are dynamic and bring otherwise boring material to life.
4.  Do’s and Don’ts – These slides break the mold, because they don’t use bullets; a common sight in PowerPoint Presentations.
5.  Call out boxes – These draw interest to particularly weighty points.  Also, for warnings I used “pink boxes” in opposed to red text; I find this effect less jarring and more professional looking.

Let’s take a closer look: