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!

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.

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

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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...

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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.

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!

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.

More accessible presentation slides can be the difference between your audience fully engaging with your content and your audience tuning out and missing out. And, if your audience miss out you miss out!

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Functional presentation slides can be fabulous too! Add a little spice to your live PowerPoint charts with this delicious doughnut chart DIY.

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Creating a great virtual training experience is about how well you use the physical and virtual tools at your disposal. Good virtual classroom learning requires clever design to focus your learners’ attention, create interactivity, and encourage discussion.