Have you seen my previous post? Here’s just a few sentences as a really quick recap:
“Do you find slide makeovers helpful?
I love them!…they’re a form of ‘working out loud’ that
I find really useful”
That post’s the 1st part of the makeover shown below, and it explains changes I made to slides 1-2 from a presentation by Diane Windingland.
In this post, you’ll find details of the changes I made to slides 3-5 (of 5) from Diane’s deck:
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Do you find slide makeovers helpful? I love them!
That’s because they show – in concrete terms – how you could improve specific slide layouts and formatting. And they even give you insight into the thought process of the designer who did the makeover. So they’re a form of “working out loud” that I find really useful.
Last month, presentation coach Diane Windingland published a slide makeover by a company called PunchSlide Design. The makeover included 7 slides from a presentation of
Diane’s, and she posted a before-and-after comparison of each one.
Of the 7 slides, 6 of them had photos added during the makeover. To me, that seemed a very high proportion, which led me to leave a comment on Diane’s blog:
“…using too many photos (or too many of any type of
slide) can be about as boring as over-using bullet points”
I felt strongly that I could do a better makeover!
Still, I found the makeover inspiring – partly because Diane’s slides were a great foundation to build on. And partly because, frankly, I felt strongly that I could do a better makeover!
So in today’s post, you’ll find my own makeover of 5 of Diane’s slides. Then, in this post and my next, I’ll share with you my thinking behind each slide’s redesign.
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