Hey 🙂 We’re continuing our Questions and Answers series and today I’d like to share simple tricks on how to stay creative with your presentations without putting much effort into it.
(more…)How to Present with Diagrammatic Format [PowerPointer’s Q&A]
Hi! My series with your Questions and Answers continues. Today I’m answering the second frequent question I get from you: how to explain something using the diagrammatic format and make presentations easier to understand.
(more…)How to be Creative and Not to Take Too Much Time? [PowerPointer’s Q&A]
Hey, presentation makers :). I’m starting the series of answering your questions, about various PowerPoint and presentation issues – from design tips to “where to catch inspiration” challenges.
How to make Happy Holiday Card in PowerPoint
With approaching Christmas and New Year celebrations, you may want to create a personal greeting card.
You can do it pretty quickly using PowerPoint and some Holiday graphics that you can reuse.
(more…)How to Make visual End-year Review presentation
The last quarter is the time to prepare a summary of the company’s yearly performance. Answering whether the yearly objectives are valid and whether the sale quotas were done. And looking slowly into next year’s plans.
If you are involved in preparing such a business review presentation, here are a few suggestions on how you can make the review visually engaging.
(more…)How to Create Puzzle Shapes in PowerPoint
Recently at our Slide Design training, a participant asked if there is a fast and easy way to draw a puzzle in PowerPoint.
Well, it’s pretty simple. During the training, it took me 2-3 minutes to show how to prepare the puzzle from scratch. Here I share a step-by-step instruction on how to create such a puzzle diagram graphics using only standard PowerPoint shapes.
(more…)How to speed up work with PowerPoint slides #2 [free slides library]
Here’s the next timesaving trick for making a presentation, that works well for me the creation of a so-called slide deck or slides library.
(more…)How to speed up work with PowerPoint slides #1 [shortcuts PPT]
In today’s busy world, the speed of making slides is critical. If you have to make a presentation in a rush and have no time for creating a fancy design, here are some ways to speed up your work in PowerPoint.
(more…)3 Diagram Mistakes to Avoid in a Presentation
If you are presenting a complex topic or writing an article on how something works – then diagrams are a visualization tool worth using. Diagrams are a great tool for explaining processes, dependencies, or structures of any kind.
(more…)Power of Pictures and Diagrams in a Business Communication
My personal discovery path to visualization
In my previous job (I worked in the IT field, in a data science company), I always admired brochures of other IT companies that contained a nicely designed schema visual. Such materials stood out, especially in the field of IT, where it’s common to write lengthy articles.