We are sharing our latest Insider’s Insight – Ta dah! – An Insider’s Insight into creating better presentations [1]. We're particularly proud of this issue. We've all been through ‘death by PowerPoint’ at some point. And it is these experiences that have given presentations a bad name. But they can still be a powerful way to communicate and exchange information when done correctly. So what differentiates a good presentation from a poor one?
When creating your presentation, you should view it as a multi-dimensional project, where each dimension must work in harmony to the benefit of the whole presentation. We can’t help you with the subject matter or make you a better presenter, but we can make sure that your slides are first-class and best serve your presentation. There are six specialities to master when you want to design excellent slides: typography, bullets, text, colour, images and themes. We are giving some suggestions on how you should use each of these to create a killer presentation (and how to avoid some of the more obvious mistakes).
We thought long and hard before writing this Insider’s Insight. We first thought that the best approach to takewas ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’. However, once we started it was clear that the best way to provide something different from other ‘guides’ was by adopting an alternative approach. There are plenty of guides telling you how to create great presentations – and most give wildly imaginative examples of how you can display your information – and yet people still create and give poor presentations. It beggars the question as to whether that approach is working? What we have tried to do is put together a brief document where every sentence has something useful to communicate – we hope thereby providing useful insight rather than a host of flashy examples prepared by experienced designers that you don’t stand a chance of reproducing.
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