Every new presentation design project begins with gathering details – the Presentation Design Brief. Troy, Sandra and Nolan talk about what format these each use for their Design Briefs, along with what information is captured for presentation makeover projects....
Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Kerri Ruttenberg, a trial lawyer, partner at the global law firm Jones Day, and author of Images with Impact: Design and Use of Winning Trial Visuals. The conversation today talks about lots of trial and legal specific uses of PowerPoint...
If you’re planning on using Google Slides; and consistency and branding are important to your company, take a look at the list below before you make the move. You cannot edit a Google Slides theme with custom colors. Yes, you may add custom colors, but...
What’s a presentation creator, right? Well, she’s has been in this industry a long time now, enough to where she used to call herself a power point creator, but now she works in all sorts of mediums. Basically, she helps presenters make good presentations. Anyone...
On two separate occasions recently, I needed to change the slide size for a presentation. Once, when the client required both the standard 4:3 slide size and the widescreen 16:9 format and again, when I was correcting an old template created in PowerPoint 2013 (when...
In the final episode of 2016, the hosts fill the hour with holiday related conversation! Along with the holiday discussions, there is plenty of design talk, great design gift ideas, and plenty of presentation design holiday cheer!...
Today, Troy, Nolan and Sandy talk about the big topic of Data Visualization, or Data Viz, which has countless ways of displaying data on slides. Every presentation designer is using Data Viz techniques, without necessarily knowing it, or calling it that. Although all three approach Data Viz...
There are 36 Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) for PowerPoint around the globe, and 14 in North America. Microsoft hosts an annual Summit on the main campus outside Seattle, with sessions for the product managers and developers to meet, discuss and gather input from the MVPs in their...
First was words, then images, now video. Presentation design has changed and today our hosts Troy, Nolan, and Sandy talk about using video in PowerPoint – tips and tricks for video in PowerPoint – using PowerPoint as the video creation app – from technical to...
Troy, Nolan, and Sandy were featured presenters at the 2016 Presentation Summit in Las Vegas, NV and managed to secure a presentation slot for this special live audience recording of The Presentation Podcast! The podcast hosts were joined by conference director Rick Altman and...
PowerPoint has lots of great features for adding motion to static content through animations and transitions. Overall PowerPoint presentations are known for animation, and knowing that animation is used by everyone from elementary age students to professional designers says a lot about the functional design...
Join Troy, Nolan and Sandy as they talk all about Pitch decks. Pitch Decks are a specialized sales presentation, and they discuss who uses them, who designs them, what is unique about their content, and how each of us approaches a Pitch Deck project....