So how do we go about creating a slide to explain a complex process that doesn’t look like this infamous presentation slide.
Start by writing out your process and, like in the previous example, define some clear, simple stages with pithy captions.
Then start building your slide by where in the process. Some of the stages will happen sequentially, some will be happening throughout the whole journey, and some might mean you end up back at the beginning.
Once you have these blocks that phone number ukraine relate to each other, you can fill them in with mini visuals that show what happens in each.
Then add a little design flourish – again keep it clean and simple. Don’t over-design this kind of thing. Finally, and don’t forget this stage, animate your slide. It can be really simple, but bring in each stage one click at a time, and talk about each stage before clicking and moving onto the next. If you show the audience the whole slide, they’ll skip ahead, figure out the puzzle, and then when you get to the punchline, they’ll have landed the plane about 10 minutes prior, just with less of the pizzazz.
Call-to-action
In murder mysteries and thrillers, the action builds up to the last 20 minutes, but after you find out who did it, you’re left with about 10 minutes of wind down. That’s what you get in presentations too – slides like ‘questions’ and ‘thank you’ take up important presentation time when they’re just essentially a background.
This is where call-to-action slides sit too, but at this point, the audience has already tuned out and they’re waiting to see if the adverts on the other side have finished so they can switch to a new show.