3 Design Hacks to Make Your Presentations Look More Professional
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Do you think you need a fleet of presentation designers to make your latest PowerPoint look good? Sometimes yes, but not always. Here are three design hacks you can use to convince your colleagues that your presentation has been to the experts.
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3 Design Hacks to Make Your Presentations Look More Professional
- 1. Three easy hacks to make your presentations look more professional
- 2. Here is your message.It’s super important Here is your message.
- 3. Here is your message.It’s super important
- 4. But delivering it with bad slides
- 5. But delivering it with bad slides
- 6. But delivering it with bad slides
- 12. People won’t pay any attention to it.
- 13. And they’ll get disappointed when they realise it’s not fish and chips*
- 14. metaphorically speaking of course And they’ll get disappointed when they realise it’s not fish and chips*
- 16. You don’t need to be a designer to make beautiful slides
- 17. Here are three easy hacks to make your presentations look more professional
- 18. But before we begin, let’s have a look at the ugly duckling
- 20. Gross isn’t it?
- 21. Gross isn’t it? White Background
- 22. Gross isn’t it? White Background Bullet Points
- 23. Gross isn’t it? White Background Bullet Points And shock of all horrors
- 24. Clip art
- 25. Step One
- 26. The background
- 27. White can be really harsh
- 29. Make sure you use creative commons images, or buy them from a stock image site.
- 31. v Choose an image in-keeping with your brand Do
- 35. Advanced Go to artistic effects, choose blur Add a Fade animation after previous
- 37. Step Two
- 38. Bullet Points
- 39. Just No!
- 40. Too much text, all at once
- 41. Make each point its own text box, and have them fly in after previous or on a click
- 43. Have your text fill the box – reduced the size! Don’t
- 44. Create boxes that are different sizes Don’t
- 45. Don’t We innovate We care We include you We support you 24/7 We have expertise We’re award winners
- 46. Don’t We innovate We care We include you We support you 24/7 We have expertise We’re award winners forget to line them all up
- 47. Advanced Right click your box and choose Shape Fill Drag the transparency Slider to 25%
- 49. Step Three
- 50. Iconography
- 52. It makes your presentation look like a child’s IT project
- 53. Instead, get yourself a set of icons. Stock image website are great for this – it’s definitely an investment
- 54. Icons provide an easy-to-understand visual language for your audience
- 55. We innovate We care We include you We support you 24/7 We have expertise We’re award winners Once you have your icons pop them in a box the same height as your points Copy the formatting of your points to your new boxes (ctrl+shift+c to copy and ctrl+shift+v to paste)
- 56. Group the objects and add a zoom animation with previous and in the animation pane drag them to the corresponding text box
- 57. Right.
- 59. Remember what we had before?
- 62. Now look at her!
- 63. Now look at her
- 65. Three easy steps and your presentation looks aeons better
- 66. The best thing is that you can use these principles And use/re-use them all over your presentations
- 67. And your super-important message will always be wrapped up in beautiful paper with a big bow
- 68. Interested in finding out more? Click here Content: Hannah Brownlow Design: Simon Cherry