PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- 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
- 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
- The need for space
- The personality of space
- Passive vs. active space on slides
- Creating space in PowerPoint
- Your turn #3: Space
- The need for similarity
- The need for contrast
- Your turn #4: Similarity and contrast
- Ways to use color
- How to choose colors
- Using color tools
- Checking colors for accessibility
- Building a custom color theme
- Your turn #5: Color
- What's next
Taught by
Heather Ackmann
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