PowerPoint is an amazing tool to express your ideas, for a fact you are literally painting your ideas on the slides, but with great power comes great responsibility with which you don’t want to mess with. So here are three rules that will help you learn how not to design a presentation in PowerPoint.
#Rule No. 1: Don’t Use Too Much Text
Yes, we have content that is both meaningful and also conveys our ideas behind the presentation but if you use too much text, your audience is gonna be lost in limbo. Why? Because they neither be able to concentrate on your content nor on you. So, better summarize your text to the minimum, use the appropriate picture to go with the text. And you become the content i.e speak while you present the idea.
#Rule No. 2: Colors Matter
No matter how much you add content or pictures on slides, they much meet the user-friendly colors. So, what are user-friendly colors? The use-friendly colors are the subtle colors that don’t irritate the human eye, instead, they make them feel comfortable to look at. So how do we know which color is subtle? For example! If you are using shape on a slide, fill it with a color and decrease the opacity/transparency to 60% and the color output you have will be the subtle color. One more advice is to try reading color theory books they have a lot of information on colors.
#Rule No. 3: Time is irreversible
When presenting your idea you should respect the time of the audience, so try utilizing every minute but do not rush. Here’s a small exercise you can practice. Try pitching a presentation in a 20-20 formula which means 20 slides, 20mins you present & 20 minutes you talk & each slide exceeds no more than 2mins each.
Try these tips and we promise you won’t mess up the presentation. In our next part, we will discuss some design ideas and how you can use the native elements within PowerPoint and create something amazing out of it.
