Designing a Presentation (2021)
56mIntermediate2021-08-11
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.
Skills covered
Google SlidesKeynotePowerPointPresentationsAppleGoogleBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Designing a presentation
- 02 - Presentation software
1. Developing Your Ideas
- 03 - Know your audience
- 04 - Developing ideas
- 05 - Moodboards
- 06 - Create an outline
2. Design Essentials
- 07 - Layout
- 08 - Establishing a layout
- 09 - Type
- 10 - Bullets
- 11 - Words
- 12 - Color
- 13 - Contrast
- 14 - Images and graphics
- 15 - Tips for images and graphics
- 16 - Cropping images
- 17 - Video
- 18 - Backgrounds
3. Charts, Graphs, and Tables
- 19 - Presenting data
- 20 - Tabular information
4. Transitions and Animations
- 21 - Transitions and animations
- 22 - Using animation
- 23 - Storyboarding
5. Finishing Touches
- 24 - Looping intro
- 25 - Following up
Conclusion
- 26 - Conclusion