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While presentations remain one of the focal tools of visualizations, there are still so many pitfalls in creating them. As you attempt to master presentation design and create convincing, informative slides, you’re likely to come through endless fails and experiments. Time to change that and provide yourself with a verified instruction that’ll guide you from the beginner’s to the professional level.
It’s a bit frustrating that there are still those who treat a presentation as a bland piece of text with a few graphic insertions. This should be forgotten once and forever because the real creative possibilities of presentation design are endless and highly adaptive to business and creative fields. Office workers, entrepreneurs, startuppers, teachers, and creators — every professional needs their type of visualization and approach to presentation design.
With Katya Kovalenko, a presentation & data designer from Barcelona, you will explore the art of presentation design. After a decade of working in advertising and communication agencies, she started her own creative business, helping startups and companies to develop their ideas into brands. Katya combines an analytical approach and simple aesthetics in her work, often using data to tell visual stories. Katya’s courses will be helpful regardless of how well you already master presentation design — there are classes to fit any level of expertise, so even the experienced ones will find a bunch of helpful hacks.
Use the code THEDESIGNEST-10 to get an extra 10% off any of the courses. If a course is at 75% off, you can get a total of 85% off your purchase. You can even use the code on multiple purchases — there’s no limit to what you can learn.
First off, let’s leave behind all the scary flashbacks where you had to invent something positive with weird transition animations and tons of data. The way you present information dramatically influences how much your audience will absorb, which is why presentation design is an art that can’t be limited to superficial manipulations.
In this course, you’ll discover the endless potential of presentation design, learn how to approach it, and set the working process. There’s also room for the most effective methods of organizing information and pro tips from a designer’s point of view. At the end, you’ll be able to create the narrative structure, develop the content and the look & feel and finally, apply everything you’ve learned into a compelling presentation.
One of the most unifying concepts of presentation design is its diversity. And in this course, you’ll learn how to create versatile, persuasive presentations. You’ll dive right into the principles of design and learn about color theory, typography theory, composition, and layout.
Once you are okay with the essential theory, you’ll get to onboard the template by setting up your workspace and choosing the suitable theme and format. Katya teaches the importance of using grids and walks you through a typical template layout and all the details you should know. These include work with images and icons as well as covering style source, proportions, line and character spacing, and alignment. By the end of the course, you will be able to create templates fitting your project, goal, audience, or business field.
Humans are in constant contact with visual languages, so we clearly understand them, but it’s still challenging to speak them fluently. To solve this, you’ll learn about some different types of graphs and diagrams that are commonly used to visualize information. And as your final project you are going to create a series of images with graphic visualizations: either infographics or an illustration for an inspirational quote.