How to Level Up Your Design Skills
Part 2: Presenting Your Work
You’ve probably encountered slide decks come in all shapes, sizes and forms regardless whether you are in design by profession. Whether you’re using PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote or any other number of presentation tools, a good deck persuades and inspires an audience while a bad one is painful for everyone involved.
Here’s why you want to present your work with a deck:
Organization
A deck gives us context for information in a structured format.
Persuasion
A deck is a visual aid that gives emphasis to what the speaker will elaborate on. It should not replicate what the speaker shares word for word, but supplement the spoken information.
Introduction
The goal is to set a balance between the deck as a visual aid vs. the quality/clarity of content delivered by the speaker.
I’m not in the camp of getting rid of the slides all together as a well placed visual aid helps an audience recap your point or give emphasis on what you have said. In addition, note-takers enjoy having a visual aid to keep up with the rapid fire of new ideas.
