PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides

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

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