Designing a Presentation

Designing a Presentation

38mBeginner2024-05-30

Authors

Tony Harmer

Tony Harmer

Educator, Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite Master

Course details

Perhaps the most essential skill for all knowledge workers, sales professionals, business owners, and educators is the ability to design compelling presentations. Whether you’re reporting performance metrics, delivering a training, or pitching a big idea, you need a presentation to support you and illuminate your speech. In this course, designer Tony Harmer takes you through the essentials of presentation design to give you the tools you'll find most useful in thinking about, designing, and building successful presentations. Tony covers a variety of key topics, including moodboards, outlines, layout, type and text, color considerations, graphics, video, charts, transitions, and animations. He concludes with some useful advice on finishing touches and follow-ups for your presentation as well as strategies for leveraging the power of generative AI.

Skills covered

CanvaPowerPointPresentationsBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Learn how to design presentations that work

Developing Your Ideas

  • Know your audience
  • Outlining for story
  • Using mood boards

Design Essentials

  • Color
  • Type
  • Challenge - Typography
  • Solution - Typography
  • Words and lists
  • Images and graphics
  • Contrast
  • Layout
  • Creating a presentation layout
  • Challenge - Create a layout
  • Solution - Create a layout
  • Using videos in presentations
  • Exploring backgrounds in presentations

Presenting Data

  • Presenting data in presentations
  • Tables

Effects

  • Storyboarding
  • Transitions and animations

Conclusion

  • Generative AI
  • Connecting with Tony
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