A quick squint around the internet and you can pretty soon find loads of Prezi templates to buy or download – including a lot of free ones from Prezi themselves. In fact the Prezi website is clogged up with businesses churning out templates by the dozen. Some of the templates are useful, some look good,…
You’ve maybe come across the term ‘Death by PowerPoint’? Or the alternative: Now you know where the term came from. Can you imagine sitting through more and more of just such slides? I’m sure you’ve all been there and you knew how you felt then. Is that how you want your audience to feel…
Can visual design be learned? That was the question posed on Quora recently and while not wanting to downplay the huge talent of so many good designers, it’s fair to say that design skills are something that many ‘non-designers’ have the ability to improve. Like any other skill it needs thinking, learning and practising. If…
Here’s an example Prezi presentation I made today to a networking group- The Vine, at Mercer, a professional services firm in London, UK. I created a set of simple slides to talk to, with simple graphics and a super logical layout. No frills and not too many tricks. Comments welcome. Personal Impact- The Vine at…
Here it is. In all of the detail about slide design, visual and verbal channels, psychology, and blah, blah, blah; I’ve finally found the image that cuts through all the crap. This is how every one of us should use PowerPoint- You’ve got an audience who are interested. You’ve got some complex terrain to get…
In developing our skills as presenters, it’s important to understand that we are using 2 ‘channels’ of information in our attempts to make the points we want to make- The visual elements of our presentation- which tend to dominate our audience’s perception of the moment, and The verbal elements to support to the visual impressions…
You can’t ‘guild the lily’, you shouldn’t put a bling earring on a baby, and a dog is never improved by a leather coat. It’s already got one, hasn’t it? Yes, these are matters of taste, and taste is a very personal thing, but there are some things you should just know. If you’ve got…
We’ve already written about the power of images in designing effective PowerPoint Presentations (and how to change the size of an image for PowerPoint); if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right. This is where the design element comes in. If your image is so small you can hardly see it, what’s the point?…
Slides are always saying something about you. Busy and dull. Cliched and generic? Simple and interesting? What ‘brand’ would you rather have? As Leonardo da Vinci said, and who are we to argue with the man who changed the way we see the world – “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Short and to the point,…