What constitutes "Good" or "Bad" design? A lot has to deal with personal preferences or even more basically, how you may have been instructed to view design issues. One key element to think about when creating your presentations is to design for your audience, not yourself. Craft the information that you want to present into the "bells and whistles" of the presentation. Use whatever "bells and whistles" that you create to enhance the message, don't inadvertently create distractors. The best sources of visual design examples and principals that I have found and incorporated into my presentations comes from Claudyne Wilder and Jennifer Rotondo. Their two products...the book "Point, Click & Wow" A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations and their CD, "Slides That Win" Your Roadmap to Success join together to produce the quintessential coupling of Designing for PowerPoint®. My recommendation...buy both of these products and get busy. You can purchase the "Slides That Win" CD and "Point, Click & Wow" by visiting Wilder Presentations. The following design examples pictured gives you an idea of how the information and design tips are constructed to point out areas that need to be addressed. Other files found on this page are either image files or PowerPoint® Shows and have been created by using the "save as image" feature in PowerPoint® and allow you to see the final products without any instructions or tips. These slides are not indicative of the Slides That Win cd, but merely various images that are contained within the program.

This is the Green Light Guideline Slide.
Follow these rules to create compelling slides. You see the notes page icon on the left. Under this slide is what the notes page says. These notes pages give ideas on organization, techniques and delivery tips.

Give an executive summary to an ongoing customer.
Here's what you might cover to update the account on your company.

  1. New products
  2. Strategic focus
  3. New key customers
  4. Future direction Why do this?

Valued customers are interested in your company--but just a slide or two. Make it pleasant and interesting for them to hear about your company's present and future plans

This is the detour and Green Light slide example.
The detour slide shows you what happens when the rule is not applied. In the Green Light slide you see how the rule was applied. When you click on the magnifying glass in the upper right you see a full screen size of the Green Light example.

Here is the full size Green Light slide.
You can copy and paste the designs for you own use. Under this slide are some more notes page tips.

Delivery Tip:
This slide is easy to talk from. Quickly moving through the information about your company, you sound crisp and clear.

For successful presentations, make your company information slides like this.

Using an executive summary at the beginning of a talk is an excellent strategy to use when you're presenting to people who interrupt your presentation.

This is a way to beat the interrupter by beginning with an overview of your talk. Now at least your audience has heard the main points before you have to answer questions from the interrupter.

Using this Slide:
Copy and past the points into your slide. Use this as a basis to create your own company overview.

   
Chart Effects Examples No Organization Vs. Grouping
Compare All Caps to Title Case Noisy Vs. Quiet Animations
Compare The Bullet Size Non-Parallel Vs. Parallel Phrases
Compare The Logo Background Phrases Vs. Shapes
Compare the Logos Questions Vs. Phrases
Compare the Title Locations Sentences Vs. Images
Compare These Animations1 Sentences Vs. Phrases
Compare These Animations2 Sentences Vs. Timelines
Compare These Animations3 Sentences Vs.Tables
Design for Your Audience Unorganized Times Vs. Clear Plan