PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides

Get a quick introduction to purposeful slide design. Discover how to modify and personalize your own design approach to maximize presentation impact.

Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files

1. Designing as Non-Designers

• Good design
• Key design components
• Design pillars

2. Understanding Hierarchy

• The need for hierarchy
• Hierarchy in bulleted slides
• When bullets are cognitively necessary
• Chunking as a bullet alternative

3. Using Space Effectively

• The need for space
• The personality of space
• Passive vs. active space on slides
• Space and unity, part 1
• Space and unity, part 2

4. Creating Similarity and Contrast Strategically

• The need for sameness
• The need for difference

5. Using Color Effectively

• Ways to use color
• Color in PowerPoint
• How to choose colors
• Build a custom color theme

Conclusion

• Next steps