Designing a Presentation
38mBeginner2024-05-30
Authors

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
0. Introduction
- 01 - Learn how to design presentations that work
1. Developing Your Ideas
- 02 - Know your audience
- 03 - Outlining for story
- 04 - Using mood boards
2. Design Essentials
- 05 - Color
- 06 - Type
- 07 - Challenge - Typography
- 08 - Solution - Typography
- 09 - Words and lists
- 10 - Images and graphics
- 11 - Contrast
- 12 - Layout
- 13 - Creating a presentation layout
- 14 - Challenge - Create a layout
- 15 - Solution - Create a layout
- 16 - Using videos in presentations
- 17 - Exploring backgrounds in presentations
3. Presenting Data
- 18 - Presenting data in presentations
- 19 - Tables
4. Effects
- 20 - Storyboarding
- 21 - Transitions and animations
Conclusion
- 22 - Generative AI
- 23 - Connecting with Tony