PPT Design

Hi everyone ,

 This week I would like to share with you  my thoughts toward design phase in a project  .Basically doing design in a presentation is quite challenging .

We have  done so many PowerPoint presentations and I think we  know that the design is very important because it produces the blueprint for the entire project.

Outlining the content 

The very first step of a great PowerPoint presentation is to pare down your content and refine your message.I have seen many presentations ,( I might have done this mistake in my presentations too ) ,having too much information in one slide and even more than that not having a clear ,concise and memorable point.

So first of all we should spent some time to think about our slides and what it needs to tell the audience in a simply and easy way .what is exactly that we want our slides to say and how we can convey that in as few words as possible .Beginning with the title, what do we want someone to know about our slide and have it as clear as possible .

Once we have our point and we’ve written out the content for our slides we can simplify our sentences even further .So instead of writing all our content out in full sentences we can turn it into short statements ,or just remove things from your slide and put them into your talking notes so you can still bring them up .But sometimes we need to keep more text on the slides than we would like to ,because the presentation needs to stand on its own without you there talking over it .In this case the best we can do is to divide it up into multiple slides .

Creating flowcharts

I have used flowcharts in my presentations to explain processes in which steps appears as a symbol  or when I wanted to have the main idea branched into a few other topics.

You can align shapes or symbols with words so it would be clearer.I think that it is very important to use flowcharts in a presentation ,with a starting and a ending point and all the elements connected to each other you can support the message you want to share with your audience.

Specifying screen design

We all like to choose theme and templates that fits to our presentation .I personally like to search for slide design and pick elements that I like and apply them to my content.

Also there are ways to download different themes according to your needs .

Create storyboards

The Storyboarding feature in PowerPoint is an easy to use tool ,that helps you to turn your ideas into visuals through animations,shapes and text ,making it easier for instant feedback and modifications until the design of final product.

We all know that PowerPoint is a visual medium and often it feels like we have to be more professional in order to know how to create great slides.

Something that can help to make our presentation  more interesting is to replace words with visuals or simply adding them in .We can do that by breaking up the text into chunks and by adding visual elements like picture,graphics icons or simply shapes.

For example in my presentation last week I’ve simply added colored and outline shapes around my text in a way that makes the overall slide more visual .Images and icons are a good choice too.

I also  like to include white space in slides for example if you  chunk up the content into blocks and bring them closer your slide will be easier to look at .

To sum up , everything you do, you should have your audience in  mind ,make sure all your slides are properly aligned ,use "menus "to better control your slides or objects design  and keep it simple .

Thank you !

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