Static design is the type of design that you see in most presentations. Nothing moves, nothing does anything unusual. But slides with static design don’t have to be arid and boring and to follow a certain pattern, like is happening most of the time. Static design possibilities are endless, and the results can be simply beautiful and eye catching.

You just need to use the text, the shapes, the images, the spaces, the colors together, in new creative ways. In this video here you may see some examples to better understand what we mean by beautiful static design.

Power Point is a powerful tool when it comes to animation. Virtually everything can be animated in Power Point: text, characters, shapes, photos, videos. You may arrange them to enter the scene in certain ways at the moment you need them during the presentation, to behave in certain ways while on screen and to exit at your command. Isn’t it beautiful? What else can make the point of the presentation better? This is what we mean when we say that a presentation comes to live.

What if your presentation starts to look more like a movie? Just imagine that your most important slide wants to underline the importance of a new piece of technology and you need something to bring this point home. What about a film like background with data flowing on top of which you just place your own information? Wouldn’t this draw the attention and will be remembered by the audience?

One may create or embed motion graphics in Power Point presentations.

By the way, motion graphics are pieces of animation or digital footage which create the illusion of motion or rotation. You can make them play continuously on the screen as much as you need to make your point to the participants. 

You can’t deny that 3D Pixar characters are awesome to watch. What if I tell you that you may use in Power Point (and even create) 3D shapes, text, objects and characters and then apply to them animations like walking across the screen? Or zooming inside a 3D building? Everything is possible and the visual impact is lasting.  

Most businesses need infographics to present their data to their clients, partners, colleagues. With Power Point these can take any form you may think of, static or dynamic. Thus, data presentation need not be boring but highly visual for easier grasp.

Although PowerPoint is not Photoshop, it is though powerful when it comes to image manipulation. Actually this is what Power Point is made for. Images should not miss from almost any slide provided they are connected with the objective of the presentation.

Observing the design principle less is more, how you use text in your slides is paramount. In Title slides, in Agenda slides or content slides, one can use text for effect by playing with fonts, colors, size, contrasts and text animations. The results can be really impressive.

For quite some time, video is the main media tool for marketing because it’s all about visuals. Why not use video in creative ways in Power Point. This does not have to be just a video playing, although this works well when you want to illustrate something at a certain moment in your presentation. But video can be used in combination with all the other tools mentioned here for a tremendous effect.

We bet you are used to make your presentations without incorporating any sounds of music into it. But things need not be this way. Sometimes a good placed sound or song helps emphasize something in the presentation or contribute to a relaxed and positive mood of the audience. So why not use sounds and music in your presentation?