Creating Good Designs
What is the most important thing to consider when designing a presentation?
What is your message?
Tool you can toggle on in the VIEW tab to determine alignment on your slide; can also be toggled with the command SHIFT + ALT + F9
What is the ruler?
when one design element appears more important in comparison to other elements on the slide
What is hierarchy?
Also known as white THIS or negative THIS; refers to the empty places or the separation between elements on the slide; creates separation between objects and can help guide viewers' eyes to specific points within the design; can be active or passive
What is space?
opposite of sameness; creates focus for a powerpoint slide or deck; should coincide with your message's key points; can be exhibited through color, size, or shape; cannot be achieved without sameness
What is contrast?
What are the three pillars of design?
What are audience, environment, and message?
Help give you visual cues when you're formatting in PowerPoint. The default horizontal and vertical lines make a THIS of one-inch squares; can be toggled on in the "VIEW" tab
What are grids?
Where you take something that is long, and break it up and organize it into smaller, bite-sized pieces, and this is nothing new or specific to slide design
What is chunking?
space that has been consciously planned. It is not simply there; it has a THIS role in the design; asymmetrical designs
What is active space?
opposite of contrast; creates consistency, cadence, rhythm, or pattern with your content; achieved by reuse of well-made layouts, templates, or colors; can be achieved with color, size, or shape
What is sameness?
What are the five elements of design as mentioned in this class?
What are size, shape, color, saturation, and texture?
unlike grids, these can be customized; can be moved around to help you arrange objects on a slide; there are horizontal and vertical ones; can be toggled on with on the "VIEW" tab
What are guides (or dynamic guides)?
An aspect of hierarchy; when one element is visually more important than all the other elements on the slide, through contrast, visual weight, or direction.
What is dominance?
space is that is created when the design elements themselves, such as graphics or text, are strategically placed (i.e. centered); empty space
What is passive space?
should attract; contrast and highlight important details of your message and connect important points on individual slides and across your slides throughout your presentation; and not overwhelm, as too much will confuse and overwhelm your audience
What is color?
Good design doesn't have to do with how something looks; good design has to do with how well something...
What is functions?
tool to use to pick up colors from an existing image; great to use when we have an image, but not the color codes for the colors included
What is the eyedropper tool?
An aspect of hierarchy; an element or area of emphasis within the design that draw similarities from that dominant element
What is a focal point?
how different elements of an artwork or design work come together and create a sense of wholeness; can be achieved through proximity, alignment, repetition or continuation
What is unity?
Never use these two color combinations; is discomforting, can cause eye strain and seizures
What are red and blue and red and green?
Three factors influencing design that must be considered by the designer before creating; have to do with where the design is being presented, human reception of visual design (colors, textures, shapes, etc.), and who the audience is.
What are environmental, biological, and social?
A set of coordinated colors used in formatting text and objects in the document; can be customized according to set brand colors
What are theme colors?
your slides' visual hierarchy should be tied to...
What is your content's hierarchy?
*Color* Text should be this and this
What are simple and high-contrast?
Color should be THIS, rather than used for decoration