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    4 simple design tips to dramatically improve your slide

    presentations
    Tags: Articles, Giving Presentations

    You're drowning in your to-do list when your


    boss swings by and says, “I need you to
    present the group's new process to the
    leadership team next week. Can you prepare a
    slide deck by Friday?”

    Love them or hate them, slide presentations


    are a fact of life at many organizations. But
    you don’t have to be a design wizard or spend
    days making engaging, impactful slides — you
    just need to know a few fundamentals of
    good design.

    Here are four simple but surprisingly powerful design tips that will dramatically improve the
    look of your slides and the clarity of your message.

    1. Be consistent (and minimal) with fonts and colors.


    When it comes to slide design, less is usually more. Keep your font and color choices simple,
    and be consistent in how you use them.

    If your organization has branding guidelines for fonts and colors, use those.

    If not, two good general rules:

    1. Use no more than two fonts: one for headers and another one for body text.

    Choose plain, commonly used fonts like Arial, Times, or Helvetica. Avoid fonts you installed
    yourself — they might not render on other computers — as well as cursive and overly
    decorative fonts, which look unprofessional. Whatever you do, don’t use Comic Sans!

    2. Use no more than three colors: one for headers, one for body text, and one for accents.

    Choose neutral ones — gray, blue, and navy are safe choices — and, if you like, a single accent
    color. Steer clear of special effects like drop shadows, gradients, word art, and animations.
    They distract your audience from the main message of your slides.

    Pro tip:
    In PowerPoint, to match a font color to a logo or brand, open the font color tool in the Home
    tab and select the “More Colors” option. Then click the eye-dropper icon, hover over a desired

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    color anywhere in the presentation (such as an image or logo), and click. To match a shape
    color, click “Shape Fill” in the Home tab and follow the same process.

    In Google Slides, you will need to know the six-digit hex code for your brand’s colors (ask your
    design or marketing team for it). To match the color, navigate to your font or shape color
    palette and click “Custom,” and enter the color’s hex code.

    2. Align your margins. No, seriously, align your freaking margins!


    Have you ever thought a slide looked off, but you couldn't quite figure out why? Most likely, the
    margins weren't properly aligned.

    Once you know this trick, you’ll never look at a slide the same way again. Aligning the margins
    of your text and images make your slides appear neater, better organized, more professional,
    and more visually pleasing.

    The best part? It's easy. Just follow these simple rules:

    1. If you have a text box and an image or two images side-by-side, align the top margins of
    both items.

    2. Align all the left margins of your text boxes, including headers.

    Here's an example of a slide with misaligned margins. It looks thrown together:

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    And here's the same slide with the top and left margins aligned. See the difference?

    Pro tip:
    In PowerPoint, use the “Align” function to automatically align margins or the spacing between
    objects. Select the text and/or image boxes you want to align, then click the “Arrange” icon
    from the Home tab and scroll down to “Align” or “Distribute.”

    In Google Slides, select your boxes, click “Arrange” from the main menu and scroll down to
    “Align.”

    3. Stick to one idea per slide.


    You’ve probably heard the phrase “death by PowerPoint” (if you haven’t, lucky you!). It is used
    to describe presentations in which the speaker drones on and on in front of an endless stream
    of words on slides, boring the audience to death.

    Many people believe that the best way to avoid death by PowerPoint is to use fewer slides, but
    that strategy can backfire. How often have you seen (or made) slides that look like this:

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    Now imagine trying to read the information on the slide and follow what the speaker is saying.

    When you cram too much information onto your slides, you create a double whammy: The
    slides are difficult to read, and, because your audience is trying to process too much
    information at once, the presentation becomes difficult to follow. This is when death by
    PowerPoint really sets in.

    Contrary to what you might think, adding more slides can improve both your deck’s
    appearance and the effectiveness of your delivery. Stick to the “one idea per slide” rule and
    break up your idea into bite-size points that easily fit on a single slide. It will make your
    presentation more interesting and easier for the audience to follow.

    So how many slides should you use? There's no magic number. Use exactly as many as slides
    as you need to clearly and effectively tell your story. No more. No less.

    Pro tip:
    Your slide deck is not a script. Instead of typing out complete thoughts, use only enough words
    to express the main idea of each slide. You can use the Presenter’s Notes section along the
    bottom to add full sentences and talking points — in “Presenter’s View,” they’re visible only to
    you.

    4. Leave plenty of white space.

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    White space is just the empty space between your headers, text and images — and it's really
    important.

    If you don't leave enough white space on your slides, they'll feel cluttered and hard to read, like
    this one:

    Like aligning your margins, white space is another small adjustment that can make your deck
    look a lot more professional. See below how giving the same text and images a little room to
    breathe makes the slide feel more composed and easier to read?

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    Bonus tip: Once you have a decent slide deck, use it as a template.
    There’s no need to create slides from scratch each time. Save your mental energy by reusing a
    deck that follows these rules as the basis of future slides.

    Don’t worry about seeming repetitive. Chances are your audience won’t notice that you used
    the same layout as last time (and the time before). Even if they do, they’re more likely to
    admire — and perhaps even envy — your slides’ consistent clarity and professionalism than
    judge you for a lack of creativity.

    For more on these tips, including editable examples, check out our downloadable slide
    presentation:

    PowerPoint:4 Simple Tips for Better Slide Design

    Google Slides: 4 Simple Tips for Better Slide Design

    © 2018 Jhana Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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