Atomic Learning has created the 12 Days of Learning, a series of articles designed to kick off resolutions to keep learning in the new year. We thought this was a great idea and have decided borrow (shamelessly steal) it and do our own. Day 8’s resource focuses on improving your presentation design.

We’ve all sat through boring, tedious presentations with too much text in too small of a font that we couldn’t read from our seats. So much so, that “Death by Powerpoint” is a thing.

Effective Presentation Design

A. Presentations: What You Need to Know 

• Introduction

• What’s the big idea?

• What the presentation is, and what it’s not

• The visual presentation of information

B. Getting Started

• Presentation design and process
• Outlining and Storyboarding
• Make it real
• Using themes and templates
• Using color
• Using text
• Making text clear and concise

C. Communicating

• Finding images
• Using images
• Using graphics
• Using video
• Using audio
• Logos

D. Telling the Story

• Organizing the story
• Using animations
• Using transitions

E. Getting Ready for Delivery

• Creating presenter’s notes
• Creating handouts

F. Resources

• Download: Handout and scripts