🔴 Powerpoint As A Design Specialty? Presentation Design Tips

[@TransverseAudio]

This isn't to disrespect the amazing work of The Futur. This is to respect the time of those who are busy. Enjoy! 3:20 - Start here ("Minimum Daily Value Provided") 8:50 - Application of presentation (When/where to show it) 11:55 - The process of a presentation 13:32 - Mantra of presenting ------------------------- 15:30 - #1 Gluttony | 20:12 - Cure to Gluttony 23:40 - #2/3 Envy / Lust | 27:00 - Cure to Envy & Lust 27:55 - #4 Sloth & its Cure 31:25 - #5 Wrath & its Cure 33:10 - #6 Greed 36:45 - #7 Pride ------------------------- 38:45 - Potential of value received & determining pricing 44:25 - Potential approach to design 53:55 - Best practices (Fonts) | 57:05 - (Research) | 58:48 - (Meetings) | 1:01:30 - (Review) 1:04:17 - Getting started with this career | 1:12:55 - Career path 1:17:00 - "Secret Sauce" - Formatting your PowerPoints and Keynotes 1:18:38 - 5 Things to include in a presentation 1:20:10 - Tools of the trade 1:21:25 - The show notes Thanks for the sweet free content, everyone at The Future!

[@thefutur]

no disrespect. we appreciate you! if you do this on any of our videos that don't have annotation, we'll update the show notes. thanks man!

[@markcontreras3572]

Thanks for doing this!

[@TransverseAudio]

Happy to help, Keep up the good work!

[@thefutur]

we have a team of volunteers who help out, but since it's voluntary, it doesn't always happen right away.

[@portercooper3121]

dunno if anyone gives a damn but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all the new movies on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my brother recently xD

[@phillipinge3004]

This was awesome. As a designer, my main takeaway is that it's not about the tools, it's about the client. I personally HATE powerpoint, but now I'll be becoming an expert at it. Bottom line is, when you open a Keynote, or open a Powerpoint, you're met with a blank page at 4:3 or 16:9. Get over it. Tell a story. Change the world.

[@edujyoung]

I came to this 3yrs ago to learn about communication design/aesthetic and felt like I didn’t get much. Now, after a couple of years working inside an organisation, I’m here to learn how she thinks and strategises the whole thing. This is gold, if you listen 👂

[@aokcreative]

Loved listening to Ashley's story. Being a presentation designer, it's interesting to hear how someone else works.

[@1pdLIVE]

dude - its in my nature to have new ideas for different businesses. but i was never be able to focus my mind on a thing and make it last. thank to you guys - i found my mission. love your content.

[@thefutur]

You are very welcome!

[@SaltLake180]

Chris you have no idea how much I appreciate the quality and quantity of work you are doing to educate the novice designers like myself. There is so much that you don’t even learn at Art School. Thank you

[@thefutur]

Thanks

[@reminiz]

This is amazing, we have a huge Presentations team at work, and this is going to be a must-watch for them. I personally wouldn't ever want to work in a presentations department, perhaps ideation/top-level or storyboard but not the nitty gritty Powerpoint usage. Never been a fan of Microsofts UX.

[@napolunatico]

This is the first time that I see Chris letting someone talk for so long, and with almost no interruptions.

[@ADYuen85]

I just finished a project that went from illustrator into powerpoint. I am still learning PP so this is video coincides with my education. The project was a digital menu board to be displayed on a TV screen in front of a kiosk serving food. I think that PP has a lot of potential for this kind of digital sign display. Thanks again for the great content.

[@DavidMacGregor1]

I really enjoyed this show. Show is a key word. When some asks me if if can send them my ‘show’ I say no. Send me a plane ticket I’ll present. Slide shows/decks are not presentations.

[@crewzta]

The Futur content is always somehow aligned to things I am working on at the time. This is amazing thanks Ashley, Chris and Futur team!

[@thefutur]

we have a pulse on what our audience is going through.

[@DebjitMajumdar]

3 years later and still relevant xD

[@user-fi6hg8vq6c]

On my creative career journey I’ve recently found myself as a presentation designer. It’s been interesting so far considering I’ve worked with PowerPoint and designed for PowerPoint for many years but not actually been in a role where I’m specifically designing for PowerPoint full time. It’s not the most difficulty design work I’ve ever done but it’s consistently in demand and it’s not difficult to impress your client. I just need to get to that 6 digit salary and I’ll be fine

[@epicmomo]

Woah amazing, haha it reminded of my highschool days and how my classmates would pay me to do their presentations on powerpoint. Then one day a teacher asked me who did the presentation and asked me if i ever considered graphic design.

[@2funkidesign]

Such a helpful chat, PowerPoint is half our intake in in-house design and the craft of storytelling needs to be shared, then design can back it up.

[@ChristopherSmithie]

OMG Ashley!! the whole presentation was lit, but I gotta be honest, the best part for me was 1:13:15 That's the confidence I should have if I got a Design Biz tbh

[@vishnuskov]

The most inspiring and practical channel I've come across in a long time, love the Futur, it's for the taking

[@gwachberg]

i have been doing power point presentations and prezis for executives for many years. my take is: the tool is not the story. you can engage an audience with simple powerpoint, if you take time to tweak animations and transitions you can go beyond normal slide-thinking. but in the end it is all about the story. you need to find a theme that is the best voice for the specific project. then take this theme and use it throughout the slide deck, just be careful to not become annoying. the best story i eve did was for a presentation on MIFID, which is about financial regulation, the most boring topic on earth. but we changed the tone of the whole thing by declaring MIFID as a group of super heroes saving the economy. all of a sudden the slides were filled with capes and marvel heroes, accompanied by some textual references. the audience, which had expected usual boredom, were thrilled. you cannot pull that off every time, but it illustrates how the idea is bigger than the tool.

[@rafiktekari]

Minute 28, I love what you said there, I have been designing presentation for 6 years, and I loove to do that, and I can't see myself using an online template, I hate them they sucks. I have been following The Skool from it's beginning( Josi days ) and I, as a presentation designer I have been looking for something for me Guys! Damn. give me more of this stuff, more presentations, give me more of that. I also was watching you checking everyone else portfolio, but I don't share mine because I am a Presentation Designer.....ahum...ahum! I love this as all the time.

[@pixeltonenewmedia2657]

We work on keynote and convert. Keynote also makes it easy to present online. We publish online give a link and we can control the pace of the presentation. Then we send them the document after the presentation.

[@thefutur]

good reminder.

[@MossyRock-g9i]

SO, I was about to record myself giving a presentation I have to deliver in person tomorrow. I thought I was done... Or close enough to record and iterate. This popped up as the next vid in auto-play. Back to the drawing board! Haha.

[@thefutur]

You can do it!

[@MossyRock-g9i]

@@thefutur You know what? I did! And it went pretty darn well. Cheers!

[@AlexM-vt5pu]

I started my new job as a Sr Presentation Designer today....the salary is great, but now I have to learn to love PowerPoint hahahaha.

[@thefutur]

Comes with the territory.

[@alaindubois7552]

You’re a source of inspiration. Thank you for your fabulous work

[@thefutur]

Thank you Alain.

[@richallaire]

GREAT content... Please do more with Ashley! Best I’ve seen yet.

[@thefutur]

more to come.

[@FrankHuranku]

Nice, another mention for Slideology. I have to buy that before my final design assessment in my apprenticeship.

[@lifelonglearner1863]

have you finished the book.?

[@rockstarkate78]

So good. I have to say though, most of the types of people I work with are NOT willing to give up their stupid jargon and charts. They think it makes them look smarter. Engineers need to watch this.

[@thefutur]

then they run the risk of talking to themselves.

[@radiantDF]

I have worked for several IT companies; What I can tell you is, they looooove their novel-esque type of PPT. They really want to cram everything in just one slide. I, as their Lead/Brand Designer gets sidelined when I try to make it more organized. I remember one of Chris Do's video "Why pay someone you're not listening to?" :(

[@rockstarkate78]

I guess as long as they keep paying, that's their problem ;)

[@radiantDF]

Thanks for the response :) Great tips BTW. My original response got lost when I restarted my mac. Couple of questions: a) What did you do (and feel) when they've changed your design (even if you have followed and observed the branding and design principles) and messed it up? b) How do you "educate" those people (who mess up your presentation) and make them listen to you? (It's quite difficult if you're an offshore and sole designer) Thanks!

[@rockstarkate78]

In my opinion, if the client is happy and they got what they wanted, I did my job. It's primarily customer service. Just like this video says, it's not for you. So if they don't follow my suggestions and they want something else, even if I disagree, I will explain why, but I will do what they want in the end. I think of it like if you worked at a restaurant, you might be able to make suggestions for the best dish and what drink would go with it, but in the end if the customer wants a hot dog and a diet coke, and that's what makes them happy, that's what they should get. As long as they still pay :)

[@isz92]

Great content! For those of us who are in-house designers who are working with flow charts, engineering process diagrams, etc, that software engineers are building (and being put on PPTs), what is the right way to handle that? Obviously we can't go fullblown creative and we need to include the charts. What is the best way to present that info cleanly to other engineer-minded execs or managers who we present to? What's the right balance between cool conceptual, typography/image-oriented pieces like you/Ashley do, but also presenting the info that's needed? Thanks a lot and appreciate this a lot. Where can we donate directly to you and your team Chris?

[@JoshuaEliGilley]

where does Chris get all the cool hats?!!?! love this talk, keep returning to it.

[@thefutur]

I’m a connoisseur of hats.

[@wasiuraji5550]

Thanks Chris Do and Ashley Smithers for this episode. Please can she do episode on her presentations slides showed discuss and analysis the idea behind it and brief, to have complete sense. I got some insight about the musical theme design not complete sense without understand the goal or the brief.

[@thefutur]

we will have her back.

[@communi-ty]

This was life-changing like I never knew any of this, just one question what was the name of the font she mentioned? stuck right now answer ASAP will help a lot. take care stay safe, blessed, happy, and healthy always.

[@johanterzis4873]

The only channel you hit like before you watch the video! The futur always delivers and that is a fact.

[@thefutur]

;)

[@777wisdom7]

powerful insight into Power point presentations

[@christiandaa]

Another great video. Great job thefutur team!

[@jasonpenix409]

Watched Live on and off while at work, will Rewatch to see parts I missed. Very informative, thanks! Will Ashley's Deck that was presented on the live stream be available via a link to look over outside of the video post?

[@thefutur]

that is up to Ashley.

[@SalMi106]

I love chris hat/cap so much :)

[@thefutur]

Mika_productions thanks! Picked up in Tokyo.

[@reminiz]

How does Ashley get new clients for presentations? Especially if you can't always show your work due to NDAs.

[@DavidUebergang]

Matt Kendall gonna go out on a limb and guess when she helps one client win the big bucks, they tell their friends. Would be interested to know for sure.

[@Mrdeluca666]

I love your shows and podcast! Its a great mentor for me :) Do you put all the live shows in the podcast?

[@thefutur]

no. we record separate content for podcasts.

[@cbmotolog5092]

After listening to Chris Do speaking I'm used to clear and concise speech. I'm honestly surprised that an expert in presentation design is liking, umming, yeahing, and you knowing through their own deck. I can only imagined you caught her at a bad time and she didn't have time to rehearse.

[@thefutur]

CBmotolog it’s Ashley’s first time on Camera. She crafts the presentation but isn’t the one giving them. I think there’s a difference.

[@cbmotolog5092]

Fair enough. It seemed that a part of her business is actually coaching her clients in that week after her presentations are delivered on how to give those presentations effectively. But, I guess, who wouldn't be a bit nervous talking to THE FUTURE haha

[@thefutur]

right? we have a big audience and speaking into a computer screen is also a little different.

[@AshleySmithers]

I heard every 'um', 'like', and 'you know' in my soul - but I did this with a full-blown flu! For this one, I was mostly concerned with not sneezing all over the camera.

[@alexgoico]

I wonder if she has a cold. Sounds like something is stuck in her throat. Or she is going to start crying. Maybe it is very intimidating talking to Chris. Who knows. Anyway the seven sins idea seems a bit like a "glued on" concept.

[@reminiz]

Death to 4:3 i say... Embrace the 16:9 :)

[@Am-graphix]

LOL on the powerful and f-bomb comment. Rock on strong authentic Canadian women!

[@Am-graphix]

Also a big hell yes on the quality of the presentation vs blaming the tool.

[@amosabsolutecreations6757]

Thanks a lot Ashley, all in all the Futur team for sharing this with me. I have realized that every video from the Futur it is a new lesson for me every time. #Ilearneveryday @Amos_SouthAfrica.

[@thefutur]

Awesome! Glad to hear.

[@_cb336]

So patient.

[@thefutur]

what do you mean? who is patient?

[@lifelonglearner1863]

omg, this is priceless. Thanks madam.

[@rukanmalas]

amazing love it

[@coralcohen1680]

I would really like to see some of her decks, I can't find any on her webiste. Where can I find some of her work?

[@thefutur]

i don't think she's allowed to share any of them.

[@coralcohen1680]

The Futur alright, didnt think about that. Thank you anyways! Love your channel❤✌

[@garyspeed8961]

i often have the challenge of presenting in bilingual format (English and Vietnamese) both on the slides and with a translator... do you have any insights on how to manage that complication successfully?...

[@thefutur]

that's a whole other beast! yikes. @ashleigh?

[@garyspeed8961]

PS.. Ashley, I am with you on powerpoint... it is an amazingly flexible tool if you take the time (like all software) to really understand it... apart from architectural presentations (my bread and butter) I use it as a project scapbook.. capturing ideas, images, notes, links in one location... and even as a schematic design tool to interact with my clients who do not or cannot use more advanced CAD software..

[@thepeacefish]

This weird mic thing is making her voice sound like she's about to cry and it freaked me out. Excellent presentation though, she's definitely on a whole different level of craft here.

[@thefutur]

yes she is.

[@thefutur]

she also had a cold.

[@wilfrodebodo]

There's a huge delay between the audio and video for me for some reason.

[@xvanegas89]

She's like the Olivia Pope of presentation design.

[@ellona3645]

Lol I'm about to graduate in Graphic Design & my plan is to take Industrial Design hahaha which I have 0 experience 😂 I'm currently just feeling lost in life. Not knowing exactly what I want.

[@thefutur]

it's okay not to know.

[@CaliKrazyTV]

Cool

[@jpelasio]

When she says "made in PPT" does she mean actually designed and placed in PPT or it's a jpeg in PPT?

[@thefutur]

designed and built inside PPT.

[@jpelasio]

The Futur craaaaaazy stuff! GG

[@Madelope]

Your hat 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@thefutur]

picked up in hat shop in Japan!

[@cnsvids4u]

Ppt to zip on a pc? Whaaaaaat great tip! #whodathunkit

[@tellme238]

❣love it

[@Maximforall]

Sadly the audio quality of Ashly is so poor that it's difficult for me to listen to

[@thefutur]

sorry. mic issues.

[@Myacckt]

The way he was offended by the 'you re not calling me a lady are you' < .

[@evilhouse6694]

What does master mean in presentation design?

[@thefutur]

good question

[@evilhouse6694]

The Futur does it mean master page in a similar way to InDesign it something different? Could you give me a definition? Pardon me for being not as well informed

[@paulvansommeren]

Is that transition on 44:19 on purpose?

[@thefutur]

no. video refresh glitch.

[@paulvansommeren]

Happy little accident?

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

A lot of "sentence enhancers" thrown in there :p

[@thefutur]

: ) S* bombs

[@y1ann15]

The audio is not in sync for me...

[@thefutur]

yeah. sometimes live streams fail that way.

[@MaxRuso]

Link is not there

[@itsmintvanilla]

Only 20 minutes in but i feel like Chris wasn't picking up what she's putting down. Wasn't really catching what she's throwing.

[@thefutur]

What did I miss?

[@itsmintvanilla]

@@thefutur Sorry i misspoke. I meant to say he wasnt buying what she's selling. Huge fan and watch alot of the content. I meant that it seemed like Chris wasn't impressed at all (rightfully so) by her presentation. Chris can and has done better. Her presentation at the start was brutal to get through, couldn't make it past those 20 minutes.

[@lastminutespecialist]

I would love to be a freelancer who charges 100,000 dollars 💵

[@thefutur]

What’s stopping you?

[@AD-Dom]

Umm why did she leave industrial design? Amazing never ending industry.

[@dianaalbakri6031]

the dude radiates bad energy i can't explain it , love her though very helpful

[@thefutur]

sorry you feel that way. glad to hear for Ashley. She's pretty awesome.

[@vusi_khosa]

Audio not in sync.

[@thefutur]

sometimes that happens via zoom and live streaming.

[@albenjammin]

I miss the facial hair...

[@thefutur]

it was bugging me alec. i don't have a full beard game going.

[@albenjammin]

The Futur push through the pain. You can do it!

[@thefutur]

lol

[@blakewood4756]

This was wildly painful to listen to.

[@mandopacheco7097]

LOL I love you chris, but you need to stop flirting with every female guest, it's cringy man.

[@thefutur]

cringy? are you against the art of charm? if i throw a compliment to our guests, men or women, you find that to be a problem? when Hugh Barton came on the show and I remarked about his immaculately groomed eyebrows, you found that to be a problem? i dunno. if you watch most tv show hosts, you'll see that they do whatever to make their guests feel at ease in front of the camera. i don't think i'm saying anything inappropriate. i'm a happily married man with 2 lovely children. hope that helps.

[@mandopacheco7097]

Yo! I don't mean to come across as a hater. I love the show. It's just an observation. I'm sure it's more natural for tv hosts to be charming with guests in the same room, but the split screen just makes things awkward. Again, I'm sorry If I offended you it's just an observation. PS. I need to work on my sugar-coating cuz I always come across as an asshole

[@bybisht]

Design Idea To @@@help