How can I become good at powerpoint or presentation design? Follow these tips

1. Become Good with
PowerPoint
Design
A guide by Chibuzo Iwuagwu

2. Good design is critical
Especially when presenting to people.
You should never underestimate the
value people place on good visual design
A good resource:

3. Overview
• Keep it Simple
• Text is Powerful
• Be an Icon
• High Res Please
• Simple Charts
• Colour Control

4. Keep it Simple

5. Your slide is meant to
reinforce your words
Making it too detailed will make the
audience lose your voice
Keep The
Main
Thing

6. Tips:
1. Simple is always better
than complex
2. People want to know what
the main thing is

7. Text is Powerful
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A
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8. By making this
sentence larger and
bolder..
I am telling the audience to
focus on it
Text Size
Matters

9. Tips:
1. Aim to use only two different
font types in a slide, if you
must
2. Too many fonts distract the
audience

10. Be an Icon

11. Icons tell a visual
story without even
using pictures
Visual
Association
Is The Key
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12. Tips
1. Let your icons demonstrate
your idea (clock = time)
2. Put your icons beside/above
your section header

13. High-Res Please!

14. 1 Clear
Picture
= 1,000 Clear
Words
www.freepik.com
www.unsplash.com
Visual storytelling is
powerful

15. Tips
1. Downloading a pic from Google
Images? Wait until the image
gets clear…
1. before downloading it
2. Start saving good pictures on
your computer/cloud space

16. Simple Charts
… or shapes

17. Reduce the amount of text,
gridlines, or numbers in
your chart
Simple
Charts
Especially if you have the figures with you
Or simply use shapes instead

18. Tips
• On your chart, click on the plus button
beside the chart (Chart Elements)
• Uncheck every category that has been
checked
• Then create a textbox beside the chart.
Write the most important figure/percentage
and explain it.
+50%
More than half of
users stop using ODO
after the first month

19. Colour Control

20. Try to stop between two to
three colours within your
presentation
Less is
More
For this presentation we used orange
and grey (although we used different
hues of grey, like dark grey)

21. Tips:
1. White is already an extra
‘colour’,
2. So you can always play with
white as a part of your colour
mix

22. All the best!
Hopefully one of these
tips was helpful to you
- Chibuzo