Presentation Design

PowerPoint Slides are a bit like fire: they can either really help a situation (as in heating your house and cooking your food) or really hurt a situation (as in burning down an entire forest or town). In this way, determining how helpful or harmful PowerPoint will be has little...

If the visual presentations that accompany more than 90 percent of the world’s speeches could be dismantled and crushed into tiny pills for insomniacs, every continent would be full of well-rested people. Sadly, we continue to blame the tools, not the carpenters. We say PowerPoint is boring, Prezi is no...

PowerPoint is an excellent tool for communication used by presenters across numerous industries. And, though images are a great way to make your PowerPoint presentations memorable, at the end of the day it’s the written text that is the glue holding your message together. This makes the typography the most...

Photos add emphasis and excitement to your presentations. When put in context with your word messages, they underline key points and deliver them with emotional punches. When looking through the many sources of copyright-free photo sites available on the Internet, it is important not to get carried away with quantity...

If you are reading this blog post, chances are you (and your audience) have been a victim of one or more mind-numbingly boring PowerPoint presentations. You know, those presentations where you have slide after slide of nothing but bullet points. Besides being incredibly dull to look at, when you have...

Any person with basic computer skills can create professional-looking slides for their presentations if they adopt a strategy of audience first. The secret of great slide design isn’t merely an aptitude for design and years of training, though undeniably, both of those help. But if you don’t have that, you...

A presentation plays an important role in both business and education, considering how it can boost our retention. When we read something, we retain approximately 20% of the material, however, when videos, images, and audio feed are involved, the amount of retained information rises up to 60% and even higher....

Designing a presentation in PowerPoint, Prezi or any other platform can look rather easy. However, once we start we begin to doubt ourselves, questioning whether we’ve used the right layout. This is the point when we decide to use a template and play it safe. Of course, it is important...

      Supplementary material can add a great deal to a speech. This is particularly true when you use slides in a PowerPoint presentation - not at all difficult to set up and certainly easy to use. Remember, however, that the slides are not the speech. They merely support...

A study shows that on the average - no matter how many slides you use in a presentation - the audience is going to remember only four of them, though they may have some vague memories of a few others. Four slides, you may think! That’s ridiculous. Maybe so, but...