The next webinar is Slide Design for Non-Designers. I love this topic, because it’s close to my heart—I’m definitely not a designer. Yet I can create stunning slides (or so people tell me). My story is that my slides used to look awful. After some painful feedback, I read books and studied slides that I […]
Improve your slide design by trying layout variations
In my “Create an Outstanding Presentation” workshops and self-study course, I teach four layouts that always look good. I taught them again recently in a presentation skills class for college students. I find that many presenters who create their own slides struggle with slide design. Not being artists, their efforts are clunky. They usually know […]
What I’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009
Olivia Mitchell, who writes the Speaking about Presenting blog, has organized a group blogging event on what we’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009. (And “design” rhymes with “2009!”) Her inspiration was a blog post by Laura Bergells, called “PowerPoint, Propaganda, and You,” in which Laura talked about what she’d like to see […]
Put one point on a slide
To make slides clearer for your audience, put one point on a slide. Take a slide with 3 bullet points, for example, and turn it into 3 slides. Then add an image, diagram, or chart to illustrate the point. The benefits? Audiences can integrate one point at a time more easily than three. They remember […]
Animate an image from color to black & white
On the popular TV show, NCIS, scenes end with a still shot that starts in color and then becomes black & white. In a discussion on the LinkedIn group, Great Communicators! Effective Presenting & PowerPoint, this technique was suggested as a fun section transition for a presentation. Here’s how the technique looks: Here are […]