Tips for Designing a PowerPoint Presentation…..

In the corporate world if you are dealing with clients or customers, having a meeting with your colleagues, making strategy for organisational benefit or imparting training to large number of audience of an organisation then you will definitely need to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.

Designing a PowerPoint presentation is an art of providing an information in a point wise manner so that your audience can easily understand and connect with it.

While designing a presentation you may use lots of features such as audio, video, designs, graphs, flowcharts, etc. which may enhance quality of topic or subject or content and may emphasize the specific subject or topic or content which will create a wonderful impact on the audience.

Designing a PowerPoint Presentation

So for designing a PowerPoint Presentation you should know the basic things. Below are the mentioned tips that one should follow while designing a presentation.

1. Slides: Your presentation should consists of different slides mentioned as below:
   • Title slide: It is the first slide which contains the Title of the Topic, Name of the speaker, his designation or qualification, Date, etc.
   • Outline Slide: This slide should contain the titles of the subsections or sub-points of your presentation.
   • Content or Informational slides: The total number of these slides may vary as per the topic or the presentation that you are going to deliver. These slides contains the detailed information of your topic or subject.
   • Conclusion slide: It shall summarize your entire presentation into few key points or key notes.
   • Slide containing contact details: This slide should contain your contact details such as email address, contact number.
2. Information on each content slide: Each content slide should contain the information in a bullet point. You should not use lengthy paragraphs. Each slide should contain 5-7 bullet points. Even your audience will get bored if you are continuously putting only the bullet points on each slide. To make an impact, you can use pictures, graphs, audio, video etc. on slide.
3. Font: Use the font (for the content) that should be able to be read by each member from the audience. Use Font style should be regular. Font size should be in between 22-32.
4. Design theme: Use only one design theme for your complete presentation. Do not use multiple design theme.
5. Use appropriate pictures/diagrams/clip arts instead of using plain text. This will create more impact on audience.
6. Graphs / Charts: The complicated numerical data, trends, patterns etc. can be presented using the graphs/charts instead of placing it in plain text.