Most of the digital professionals I know need to create at least one slideshow a year, whether for an internal meeting, a client briefing or a conference talk.
All too often I see slideshows that contain great content and ideas, but sometimes the slides are cluttered and confusing, or worse, boring.
Thankfully help is at hand, to enable you to create wonderful slides in 2012.
The best presentations seem to have the following in common:
- Minimal text
- Attractive font choices
- Big and bold typography
- Smart use of icons
- Pictures and background textures
- A zero tolerance to typos
- 10 slides or less
- A focus on presenting key messages with clarity
- Lots of takeaways
- A little humour
All of the above helps to leave an impression that lives long in the memory.
There are plenty of other ways to help you optimise your slides. I've compiled a bunch slideshows on how to create standout slideshows. That's very meta, I know, but hey, the medium is the message...
7 tips to create visual presentations
Presentation Secrets
Presentation Secrets
How to TEDx [Presentation Design Tips]
Slides That Rock
Boring to Bold: Presentation Design Ideas for Non-Designers
PowerPoint Porn: 100 Sexy Slides [Safe For Work]
20 Presentation Secrets You Won't Find Elsewhere
10 Commandments for Great Presentations
Making Presentations Better
Are you sharing the wrong slides?
7 Design Principles in Creating a PPT
Do you have any other tips that work well? Please share them below in the comments section.
Reader comments (4)
Head of Digital at QualitySolicitors
8:28PM on 14th December 2011
Fantastic list, thanks for sharing Chris
10:58AM on 19th December 2011
Thanks for including my slides among your list--these are all outstanding.
Cheers--
Michael Gowin
10:02PM on 15th November 2012
Hi, Usually i dont leave comments but in this case i need to say, thanks so much for your time in this article, it really helps me a lot.
11:39PM on 16th January 2013
These are good, but it's pretty easy to create a good presentation about presentations, because the concepts are so simple. Try doing this with a much more complicated B2B product for instance, and you'll find it challenging to completely rid yourself of bullets.
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