PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides

This course, which is geared toward non-designers, teaches common business executives to the essential design elements and specifications for effective PowerPoint slide design. MVP of PowerPoint Instead of using handy but unproven blanket principles for presentations, Heather Ackmann strives for comprehension and a comprehensive perspective on design. The three fundamental tenets of an effective PowerPoint presentation—audience, environment, and message—are supported by Heather’s strategy. She leads you through before-and-after examples that demonstrate how to efficiently use white space in slide design, determine whether to use bullet points to convey, how to effectively contrast elements and primary concepts, and how to use colour.