PowerPoint, presentation design, and eLearning articles, including:

• Google Slides

BrightCarbon's tested out three colour blindness simulators to help you make more accessible Google Slides presentations.

• Presentation technology / Visual communication

If you stick to these guidelines whilst recording, you should be able to achieve professional results from your home or office environment. Remember, preparation before the recording session is paramount to getting the highest quality results. To get the perfect shot, it will take a fair amount of trial and error and normally a few takes! Lights, camera, ACTION!

• Industry insights

After a long siesta, we’re re-awakening our expert interview series with an industry heavyweight Chantal Bossé! We sat down with Chantal for a chat before the release of her new book ‘Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques'.

• Google Slides

Our team has been test-driving a whole host of new Google Slides add-ons and we know you’ll love having some of these in your back pocket!

• PowerPoint design

Including a video of the presenter in pre-recorded content can be a great way of connecting with a remote audience, especially if you’re delivering education or training virtually. It puts a (hopefully friendly!) face to content and can bring your slides to life.

• Industry insights

What does 2023 have in store for presentation design? We asked our expert presentation designers to give their predicitions for the new year.

• PowerPoint design
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It's Christmas! After a late night with too much eggnog and brandy snaps we set ourselves a challenge to see who could come up with the wildest PowerPoint Christmas card! So it's the day after the night before, and through blurry eyes we can reveal our efforts...

• PowerPoint design / Google Slides
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We’ve found there’s no hard-and-fast rule for how big or small text on slides should be. Each presentation has its own unique requirements – it all depends on what you’re using the slides for, what you’re hoping to achieve with them, and how your audience will be viewing them. That said, we do have a few best practices for you to consider.

• Google Slides

Dive into our top choices for the new fonts available in Google Slides. All these fonts are free and open source, licensed to use in print, digital, commercial or other projects under the Open Font License. A font treasure trove!

• PowerPoint design / Visual communication

Space: Vast – Unknowable – Useful? Not everyone’s a graphic designer, but everyone can borrow graphic design best practices to make slides really pop. In this blog post, we’re going to explore how you can manipulate whitespace to create beautifully balanced slides.