Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
[H]ere’s a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design). Much of it is based around courses I designed and taught at UCLA Extension’s New Media/Entertainment Studies department.
Well worth checking out.
Virtual Hosting Blog ยป Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your webpage.
While focused on web design a lot of these points can easily apply to presentation slides as well.
An older article but it stresses some important studies of attention span.
After three to five minutes of “settling down” at the start of class, one study found that “the next lapse of attention usually occurred some 10 to 18 minutes later, and as the lecture proceeded the attention span became shorter and often fell to three or four minutes towards the end of a standard lecture.”