Slide Design: a guide to great presentations

Slidebean
14 min readJan 5, 2016

From the moment you start creating your slides to the minute you stand in front of your audience, the process of conceiving a great presentation can be both intimidating and challenging. How do you begin to master the skills required to pull it off?

Our team of experts has created this thorough list of creative presentation ideas to ensure you can get professional slide design on any presentation you create.

Here’s a small index of what we’ll be covering,

  1. Basic creative presentation ideas to keep in mind
  2. PowerPoint alternatives to use
  3. Presentation outline: telling a (great) story
  4. Color palette and slide design
  5. Dealing with images
  6. Stock photos that don’t suck
  7. Classic PowerPoint mistakes to avoid

Creative presentation ideas to keep in mind

1) SCRIBBLE BEFORE YOU BEGIN TYPING

Before jumping into creating your presentation, think for a moment what’s the core message you wish to convey. What are the main ideas that you want to cover with your presentation? A good exercise is to scribble these ideas, and then assigning them a number which can be…

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