From Boring to Bravo: How to Be a Slide Design Superstar

All of us are short on time. In this session, you'll learn how to quickly transform dense text-heavy slides into visually appealing professional designs. Our first step will be to create your own design toolkit and set up your PowerPoint environment to help you work more efficiently. Next, we'll show you some time-saving techniques that make your job easier and will help you create better presentations that you can be proud of.

• Introduce you to design resources help you build better slides
• Customize your PowerPoint setup to boost the efficiency of your workflow
• Make your PowerPoint content more professional and compelling
• Learn to do speedy slide makeovers

Learn more at https://mike-taylor.org

Transcript

1. Fast Fixes For PowerPoint: Taking Your Slides From Boring to Bravo Mike Taylor
2. Mike Taylor mike@mike-taylor.org
3. bit.ly/uncp22 Everything you’ll need is here including my contact information, supporting links, practice files, etc. Workshop Materials
4. What is your biggest PowerPoint challenge? Use the chat pane to answer.
5. Blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations is like blaming Word for bad writing
6. Agenda Your Toolkit Plan Before Building Build Better Slides Faster
8. What is an Effective Presentation?
10. Setting Up For Success Multimedia, Add-ins & the QAT
11. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” –Abe Lincoln
12. PowerPoint Toolbox
13. Where do you get photos, icons, etc? Use the chat pane to answer.
14. Office 365
15. Stock Photos
16. ICONS
17. VIDEOS
18. ILLUSTRATIONS
19. CUT OUT PPL
20. CARTOON PPL
21. EveryPixel Search Multiple Photo Sites
22. The Noun Project Millions of icons + more photos
23. Freepik Stories Illustrations & Vector Graphics
25. Add-Ins Extend capabilities of PowerPoint
26. Noun Project
27. Pexels
28. BrightSlide brightcarbon.com/brightslide
29. 2 Ways to Get Add-ins From Microsoft Directly from Developer
30. Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) Quick, easy way to access any feature in PowerPoint, without scrolling through endless menus.
31. Quick Access Toolbar
32. Right-Click Any Button
33. Keyboard shortcuts too! Alt +1 Alt +2 Alt +3 etc
34. DEMO
35. Hands On • Browse the PowerPoint Stock Images Library • Browse EveryPixel or Noun Project (don’t forget to bookmark them) • Add some items to your QAT (or download/import one provided) • Browse/Install a PowerPoint add-in (if you’re permitted/able) http://bit.ly/uncp22
36. Plan Before PowerPointing Goals, Audience & Call to Action
37. How do you plan for a new presentation? Use the chat pane to answer.
38. Questions To Answer YOU YOUR AUDIENCE
39. What do you need to know about your presentation?
40. BEFORE You Build
41. Nolan Haims nolanhaims.com/goodies
42. Nolan Haims nolanhaims.com/goodies
43. Cliff Atkinson cliffatkinson.com/beyond-bullet-points My Favorite
44. Always Remember: Put The Audience First!
45. What do you need to know about your audience?
47. Never deliver a presentation you wouldn’t want to sit through. Duarte’s Golden Rule
48. Better Slides Faster Concepts & Techniques
49. A Word About Versions vs
50. Office 365 Office 2019 Office Web Most Features Fewest Features* A Word About Versions
51. Strategy #1 Reduce Text
52. Multimedia Principles Richard Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara.
53. Too much text is visually disruptive
54. United States Federal Budget The budget cuts mandatory spending by a net $2,033 billion (B) over the 2018–2027 period. This includes reduced spending of $1,891B for healthcare, mainly due to the proposed repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare); $238B in income security ("welfare"); and $100 billion in reduced subsidies for student loans. These savings would be partially offset by $200B in additional infrastructure investment. The budget cuts discretionary spending by a net $1,851 billion over the 2018–2027 period. This includes reduced spending of $752 billion for overseas contingency operations (defense spending in Afghanistan and other foreign countries), which is partially offset by other increases in defense spending of $448B, for a net defense cut of $304B. Other discretionary spending (cabinet departments) would be reduced by $1,548B. Revenues would be reduced by $1,000B, mainly by repealing the ACA, which had applied higher tax rates to the top 5% of income earners. Trump's budget proposal was not sufficiently specific to score other tax proposals; these were simply described as "deficit neutral" by the Administration. CBO estimated that based on the policies in place as of the start of the Trump administration, the debt increase over the 2018–2027 period would be $10,112B. If all of President Trump's proposals were implemented, CBO estimated that the sum of the deficits (debt increases) for the 2018–2027 period would be reduced by $3,276B, resulting in $6,836B in total debt added over the period.[6] CBO estimated that the debt held by the public, the major subset of the national debt, would rise from $14,168B (77.0% GDP) in 2016 to $22,337B (79.8% GDP) in 2027 under the President's budget.[7]
55. United States Federal Budget Mandatory spending: The budget cuts mandatory spending by a net $2,033 billion (including $238B in income security ("welfare"); and $100 billion in reduced subsidies for student loans. Discretionary spending: The budget cuts discretionary spending by a net $1,851 billion This includes reduced spending of $752 billion for overseas contingency operations (defense spending in Afghanistan and other foreign countries), which is partially offset by other increases in defense spending of $448B, for a net defense cut of $304B. Revenues would be reduced by $1,000B, mainly by repealing the ACA, which had applied higher tax rates to the top 5% of income earners. Deficits: CBO estimated that based on the policies in place as of the start of the administration, the debt increase over the 2018–2027 period would be $10,112B. If all proposals were implemented, CBO estimated that the sum of the deficits (debt increases) for the 2018–2027 period would be reduced by $3,276B, resulting in $6,836B in total debt added over the period. CBO estimated that the debt held by the public, the major subset of the national debt, would rise from $14,168B (77.0% GDP) in 2016 to $22,337B (79.8% GDP) in 2027 under the President's budget.[7]
56. United States Federal Budget Mandatory spending: net reduction of $2,033 billion Discretionary spending: net reduction of $1,851 billion Revenues: Reduced by $1,000B Deficits: $6,836B in total debt added over the period. CBO estimated debt held by the public would rise from $14,168B in 2016 to $22,337B
57. Animate & Sync
58. Slides are free.
59. debt held by the public would rise from $14,168B to $22,337B US Annual Budget Mandatory spending: ↓ $2,033B Discretionary spending: ↓ $1,851B Revenues : ↓ $1,000B Total Deficit: ↑ $6,836B
60. Before & After Which one would you rather receive?
61. Use a handout for details & more info
62. Use Slide Notes + Presenter View
63. ‘Full Size’ Images Strategy #2
65. A Day in the Life of a VIRTUAL TRAINER
66. Which one is better?
67. @tmiket 69 “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
68. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
70. Turtles • Leatherback turtles can reach almost 9 feet in length and weigh over 1,100 lbs
71. Turtles Leatherback turtles can reach almost 9 feet in length and weigh over 1,100 lbs
72. Turtles Leatherback turtles can reach almost 9 feet in length and weigh over 1,100 lbs
74. Convert Text to Graphics Fast Fix #1
75. Leadership Team • Sébastien Bazin • Sven Boinet • Chris J. Cahill • Jean-Jacques Morin • Maud Bailly • Arantxa Balson
76. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean-Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
77. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean- Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
78. Accor Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean- Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
79. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean-Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
80. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean- Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
81. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean- Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
82. Leadership Team Sébastien Bazin Sven Boinet Chris J. Cahill Jean-Jacques Morin Maud Bailly Arantxa Balson
83. Bullet List Makeovers How long would it take you to build?
84. Less than 10 seconds
85. SmartArt Convert text to a graphic
86. DEMO
87. Leadership Team • Brad Davis • Lori Skaggs • Brent Sheffler • Akiko Lee • Taishawn Morris
88. Company History • 1967 • Société d'investissement et d'exploitation hôteliers (SIEH) hotel group founded • 1974 • Launched the Ibis brand with the opening of the Ibis Bordeaux • 1983 • Changed its name to the Accor Group. • 1990 • Entered the North American market by acquiring Motel 6. • 1990s • Diversified to include Accor Casinos
89. Images Too: Picture Format » Picture Layout
90. Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson founded the Société d'investissement et d'exploitation hôteliers (SIEH) hotel group 1967 Launched the Ibis brand with the opening of the Ibis Bordeaux 1974 Changed its name to the Accor Group. 1983 Entered the North American market by acquiring Motel 6. 1990 Diversified to include Accor Casinos 1990s BONUS TIP: Ungroup to customize
91. The Société d'investissement et d'exploitation hôteliers (SIEH) hotel group is founded 1967 Launched the Ibis brand with the opening of the Ibis Bordeaux 1974 Changed its name to the Accor Group. 1983 Entered the North American market by acquiring Motel 6. 1990 Diversified to include Accor Casinos 1990s BONUS TIP: Ungroup to customize
92. nolanhaimscreative.com/store
93. Design Ideas is your friend Fast Fix #2
94. DEMO
95. Most Popular Sports • Baseball • Football • Basketball
96. Let’s try it! • 1967 • Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson founded the Société d'investissement et d'exploitation hôteliers (SIEH) hotel group • 1974 • Launched the Ibis brand with the opening of the Ibis Bordeaux • 1983 • Changed its name to the Accor Group. • 1990 • Entered the North American market by acquiring Motel 6. • 1990s • Diversified to include Accor Casinos
97. Most Popular Sports • Baseball • Football • Basketball
98. Work With Images Too
99. Hands On • Convert a bullet list using SmartArt (Slide 1) • Apply a Picture Layout to slide images (Slide 2) • Convert a bullet list using Design Ideas (Slide 3) • Add images or icons then re-check the Design Ideas suggestions (Slide 4) https://bit.ly/uncp-fastfix
100. Super Shortcuts More Fast Fixes
101. “Hover to Discover” Keyboard Shortcuts CTRL C + CTRL V + CTRL D + CTRL M + Copy Paste Duplicate New Slide
102. Windows File Explorer
103. Web Content
104. DEMO
105. Drag image in from File Explorer
106. Drag image in from web browser
107. Alignment & Distribution
108. Format & Animation Painter
109. Cha.. Cha.. Change!
117. Structure First! Build your slides last. Don’t create any slides, until you’ve done the important work of organizing and clarifying your message Reduce the Text Less is more. T ext splits the attention of your audience between reading & listening reducing how much they understand & remember. Make it Visual Say dog, see dog. Images capture our attention and help us remember information. Resist the urge to “decorate”.
118. Questions? Build your slides last. Don’t create any slides, until you’ve done the important work of organizing and clarifying your message
119. mike-taylor.org Exploring the intersection of learning, design & technology