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PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

PowerPoint MVP Heather Ackmann shows how to create better PowerPoint slides that will keep your audience engaged and get your message across.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Better PowerPoint slides today
  • Using the exercise files
1. Designing as Non-Designers
  • Creating a good design
  • Design pillars
  • Key design principles
  • Designing for everyone
  • Must-have accessibility tools
  • Third-party tools
  • Your turn #1: Redesign a slide using Gestalt principles
2. Understanding Hierarchy
  • The need for a hierarchy
  • Hierarchy in bulleted slides
  • When bullets are necessary
  • Designing bullet point alternatives
  • Creating bullet point alternatives in PowerPoint
  • Your turn #2: Hierarchy and bullet alternatives
3. Using Space Effectively
  • The need for space
  • The personality of space
  • Passive vs. active space on slides
  • Creating space in PowerPoint
  • Your turn #3: Space
4. Creating Similarity and Contrast Strategically
  • The need for similarity
  • The need for contrast
  • Your turn #4: Similarity and contrast
5. Using Color Effectively
  • Ways to use color
  • How to choose colors
  • Using color tools
  • Checking colors for accessibility
  • Building a custom color theme
  • Your turn #5: Color
Conclusion
  • What's next

Taught by

Heather Ackmann

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