My friend and fellow PPT MVP Dave Paradi has a nice post up on how to source and use vector icons in PowerPoint when you don’t have access to Adobe software.
And a few more resources for free icons are Google’s Material Design icon collection, flaticon.com and thenounproject.
I’m really excited to be doing my second webinar for PresentationXpert on Wednesday, November 12.
Visualizing data effectively and clearly is becoming an increasingly larger part of workflows these days. Tune in to this free seminar to learn how to create better charts and visualizations using the tools you already have on your desktop.
We’ll cover 6 solid techniques for indentifying and telling the story of your data including the all-important “McKinsey Rule.”
We’ll discuss “chart junk,” how to identify it, why it’s counterproductive and how to remove it. We’ll discuss why pie charts suck, how to avoid legends and the reasons why the fewer colors you use the better.
And did I mention that the webinar is absolutely free?
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Love the simplicity of this AT&T ad visualizing 99%.
You know, the easy thing to do with this data would have been to make a bunch of bar charts, pie charts, bullet graphs, sized shapes, or something…
But there’s something about forcing the reader to spend more time examining these numbers that I like…
h/t to ThinkProgress.
I hate the facts of the data behind this chart, but love the way the designer calls extra attention to comparitive norm. From prisonpolicy.org.
My awesome friends at SlideRabbit wrote up a really nice explanation of how they recently created an interactive infographic for a client all within PowerPoint. And if you don’t read the whole thing, you can’t whine and say, “But why would you do that in PowerPoint?” (Hint: It’s all about client editability…)
A lot of people (including clients of mine) took note of presentation designer Emiland De Cubber’s slide makeover of Mary Meeker’s deck profiled in Business Week.
It’s good. Take a look.
And a hat tip to IdeaTransplant’s great post on the makeover.
