How to design a great presentation…

Good presentation design requires an eye for detail. To design a good presentation you must start with a clear plan and use clear messages. It is much more than getting a presentation design company to add in a few pictures.

Follow our design tips and your presentation should fly.

 

Avoid bullet points

Bullet points are easy, but not a great way of communicating. It is very reassuring to have our speaker notes on the screen, but better if you can memorize them instead.

Use pictures where you can.

A picture is worth a thousand words and can dramatically help you to connect with your audience. This is particularly true where you have an international audience and English is not their first language.

Use a professional presentation design company.

If you want your slides to look polished then having a professional makeover will really help them to stand out. Clearly Presented specialise in presentation makeovers. There are a number of presentation examples on their web site.

Keep the word count down.

We often see slides with lots of words on them. The audience struggle to read them, and while they are reading, they are not looking at the presenter. Where possible, use fewer words and as a maximum use no more than 40 words per slide.

Try to use only one concept per slide.

If you have three points to make – don’t cram them all on a single slide – use three separate slides.

In a very memorable speech Management Guru Tom Peters delivered 50 slides in 20 minutes. He simply used a slide where most speakers would use a bullet point.

Emulate best practice.

We find it very useful to look for inspiration in best practice presentations. It can often be quite difficult to find, so we intend, over the next few months to bring you more examples of best practice presentations.

Also if you look around the rest of the site – you should find many more ideas on presentation design.