Presentation Design Essentials


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How do you know if your slide design is effective?

How can you be sure that your slides convey your message correctly and clearly? As a business presenter,if you use slides regularly, this section is a must read for you.

Here, we will take you through the essentials of PowerPoint slide design to answer those questions.

Don’t get worried if the term PowerPoint Slide Design sounds too intimidating. Designing a slide has nothing to do with your creative abilities or your artistic talent.

It has everything to do with clarity of your thinking and common sense.


IMPORTANT POWERPOINT TOOLS


 

6 infographics about Design

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#1 Factor That Wastes Time

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When to Use PowerPoint Slides

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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

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Steps to evaluate Slides

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4 Bad Habits of Presenters

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How Many Slides To Use?

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When to Use Flat Design

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What leads to Slide Design Failure?

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Slides Like Billboard Ads

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Why Bullet Points Suck

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7 PowerPoint Tips Not to Follow

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3 Design Rules to Break

Slide Design Principles

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Slide Design & White Space

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Slide Design Principles & Chunking

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Using Right colors for your slides

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Branded Presentations: Andrea Beltrami

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Good Presentation Layouts

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Slides & Brand Promise

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Slide Design Principle: Dominance

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Beautiful Slide Tips

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Slide Design Balance

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Design Tips from Web

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Design Tips from Print

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Design Tips from Newspaper

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Effective Slide Tips

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Assertion Evidence Model

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To Use Pictures or Text?

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Understanding Font Personality

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3 Reasons for Slide Layouts

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Alternatives to Bullet Points

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Science Behind No Bullets Rule

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Effective Design : 1

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Effective Design : 2

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Effective Design : 3

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Good Background

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5 Design Mistakes

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Layout Rules

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No Power Point Please!

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Minimal Presentation

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Minimal Slide Design

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 Slide That Sells

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 Design Theme Issue

PowerPoint Design Theme Issue

Realize that, as a business presenter, your package for your ideas is the slides you use.

When you use the same old, traditional bullet point slides to package your ideas, you waste all your effort in creating a good content. Your slides don’t do justice to the quality of your ideas.

More than anything, good slide design tells about your professionalism as a business presenter. Learning the right process to create good PowerPoint Slides is not an option but a necessity to make an impression on your audience.

Here is a side benefit, you may not have thought of. Having a well-designed slide boosts your confidence and helps you reduce anxiety when speaking.

Go ahead explore this section to learn more!

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