Bringing Emotion to Data

Bringing Emotion to Data

Oct 10, 2020 | webinar

Data: Mem­o­rable or not? When I’m not act­ing as a user expe­ri­ence designer and con­sul­tant, I archi­tect and over­haul pre­sen­ta­tions and have done so for almost 2 decades. For about 10 of those, I worked at a retire­ment plan ser­vices firm where, as...
Monkey Wrenches

Monkey Wrenches

Oct 8, 2020 | webinar

Dis­cov­ery Set expec­ta­tions One slide, three ways Review­ing with the pre­sen­ter Uni­ver­sal design & acces­si­bil­ity Intro Today I want to talk to you about how to approach design you’re cre­at­ing some­thing for some­one else and you hear the direct or...
3 Ways to Resize Your Slides in PowerPoint

3 Ways to Resize Your Slides in PowerPoint

Mar 23, 2018 | blog, tutorial

Per­haps one of the big­ger pains in Pow­er­Point is chang­ing your slide size from 4:3 to 16:9 or vice versa. Let’s go through the pros and cons of each method. The Fast Way The fastest way to change the slide ratio is to go to the design tab and click­ing on...
Using Long Screenshots in Presentations

Using Long Screenshots in Presentations

Mar 9, 2018 | blog, tutorial

The Prob­lem You want to show the entire length of a web page in your pre­sen­ta­tion. You don’t want to rely on the spotty inter­net con­nec­tion, so you don’t link to the live site or embed the web­page into your slide. How­ever the full screen­shot is entirely too...
Making clean proofs of slides with complex animations

Making clean proofs of slides with complex animations

Feb 20, 2018 | blog, tutorial

There’s a workaround for that. Note to reader: There’s ALWAYS a workaround. If you’re like me, you love to enhance your story with appro­pri­ate ani­ma­tion within Pow­er­Point. Both sim­ple and com­plex ani­ma­tions can bring the infor­ma­tion pre­sented to life...
The Dot Zip Trick

The Dot Zip Trick

Nov 30, 2017 | blog, tip, tutorial

How do I pull the images out of this presentation? Have you ever wished you had the native image, video, or audio files out of a pre­sen­ta­tion? There is an incred­i­bly fast way to do it. Select the pre­sen­ta­tion file that you want, right-click, and choose...