PowerPoint: Silicon Valley Presentation Secrets

Learn how to create dazzling and effective PowerPoint presentations. Pick up slide design techniques used by presentation designers at cutting-edge Silicon Valley companies.

Introduction

• Presentation design is a job

1. Working in the Valley: Behind the Scenes

• Why presentation design is so popular in Silicon Valley
• Presentation designers wear many hats
• The importance of working quickly

2. Saving Time

• The benefits of working directly in PowerPoint
• Create custom shapes in PowerPoint
• The three-shape challenge
• Demo: Fry an egg using shapes

3. Silicon Valley Staples

• Build anything using your imagination
• Make a social media interface
• Make a photorealistic phone feed

4. When in Doubt, Morph It

• What is Morph?
• Morph demo 1: Photo montage
• Morph demo 2: Morphing an element across multiple slides

5. Creating Showstopper Moments

• What are showstopper moments?
• Create a parallax effect
• Make some toast

6. Bringing Still Images to Life

• Add a little life to still photos
• Animate a rocket launch
• Animate a model putting on makeup
• Animate a speeding jet

Conclusion

• Next steps