Create Beautiful Slides like Steve Jobs (in PowerPoint!)
Steve Jobs will never be caught with an ugly slide during a MacWorld Expo! His presentation slides like all Apple products are always beautifully simple. Such slides are easy to create, easy to deliver and easy to be understood by everyone.
Steve Jobs always have beautiful slides.
To create slides like Steve Job is easy in PowerPoint:
1. Insert a blank slide.
2. Apply a 3-stop gradient fill to the slide background.
3. Set stop-1 to black.
4. Set stop-2 to a dark blue.
5. Set stop-3 to a lighter shade of dark blue.
6. Use san-serif fonts like Myriad to imitate typography of Apple products else Arial font is a good approximation.
You should get this:
This was done in PowerPoint.
To learn more about how to create beautiful slides like these in PowerPoint, check out this workshop: PowerPoint Design Ideas
Making Beautiful Excel Charts is Simple
Have you ever told yourself that creating great looking Excel charts is hard? Well it’s not. You only need to understand the only reason we create charts is to aid comprehension of a trend. Once you understand this, you can start to create charts that’s easier to read and understand than text!
First, this is not a good way to design effective charts. There is unneccesary clutter with too many colours, complex font and a legend that needs mental processing by the reader.
There is unneccesary clutter with too many colours, complex font and a legend that needs mental processing by the reader.
The basic way to create beautiful and effective charts in Excel is to remove everything that is superfluous. I took this idea to the extreme and designed a minimalist chart with the same data. By removing clutter, clarity is enhanced!
A cleaner font was used, simple colours and data labels made the chart much easier to read and understand.
To learn more about how to create beautiful charts like these in Excel, check out this workshop: Beautiful Excel Charts
