Animations in user interfaces

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How to make your slides look elegant and "designy"

Presentation design blog … How to make your slides look elegant and "designy" … : copy something you like. Almost everybody can see good design when they see it, very few can create … good design from a blank sheet of paper. And, most people are very poor at copying. They want to make … the slide look like the one from Steve Jobs or that 1960s Swiss graphics designer, and while the … I came across this question on Quora: how to make your slides look elegant and "designy"? I don't … really like the word "designy" but I understand what people mean by it. My answer to this question …

The presentation designer's responsibility

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A sense of space

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Pick your battles

Professional designers can do it all: Give slides a professional look Come up with innovative … Design … decent professional look of your slides. Simple designs can look great (look at Swiss graphic design for … complex slides The amateur designer is in a different position and needs to pick her battles. That … does not support your message. You do not need to be a graphics designer to ensure number 1, a …

Will the designer change your text?

Design … “presentation designer”. Now the world is flooded with them. But “designer” is a very broad term used … by people with varying skills. Most “before and after” examples on designer’s web pages are … Will the designer change your text? … often the text changer might not be very good at design. (The SlideMagic bespoke design pitch was … text always stays the same. Maybe this is the question you should ask a potential presentation designer … actually 3), etc. The text changer is a very different designer from the makeover artist. And very …

What do you mean, "presentation"?

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The right proportions in design

Design … complex set of harmonics and ratios that all relate to each other. Beautiful designs have them … The right proportions in design …

Prototype design

Design … Prototype design … design. Focus on easy wins that make your product look professional and organised, and skip the … “marketing design” for the moment. Minimal effort on the public facing web site No investment in “flashy … have a few interesting ideas). I am becoming better and better at designing web front ends, fusing … slide, spreadsheet, and data dashboard design. I am surprised of the impact the look & feel of a … prototype makes on early users. Investing in design can take a lot of time, and can be wasted when you …

Car dashboards

Design … I grabbed this screenshot of the evolution of dashboard design in Mercedes cars (can’t find the …

Perceived quality

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Black flags

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Parking allowed?

Design … design) Put all the details (hours of day and night, etc.) in a dense footnote at the bottom. Once you …

Presentation designers vs. other designers

installed. Brochures are designed once and sent to print, presentations are live documents edited by … Presentation design ideas … edited by non-designers Framing images: there are a few types of presentations slides. Big images … Presentation designers vs. other designers … get tired of tehm Shapes and icons Icons work in UI design, or on small mobile phone screens. Icons … Every other project, I encounter other designers (web, print) at clients, and sometimes we end up … different than other design disciplines Fonts: Presentations get edited by many people, on many different …

Designing on small screens

Presentation design ideas … as a web app rather than as "mobile first". The issue is not constrained to graphics design. Recently … Designing on small screens … focus your creative energy. This was the reason that my presentation design app SlideMagic launched … I have argued many times before here that design work on small screens is difficult. It is OK to … white board works better to design charts than a small A4 piece of paper. For good design you need a … character monitors were big contributors to the design mess in business presentations. A big empty …

Designing presentations for print

Presentation design ideas … ). Professional print designers will laugh at all this, this is design 101, and these issues have long been … are unlikely to see page scaling issues in your print newspaper. The problem is, these designs are … Designing presentations for print … design of your slides. The bottom line, get a slide to look good on paper on day 1 of the design …

Designing for speed readers

Presentation design blog … Designing for speed readers …

Designing good keynote slides

Some random thoughts on designing keynote slides (in no particular order): A keynote is a specific … Designing good keynote slides … Presentation design …

Designing analyst presentations

Designing analyst presentations … Some random thoughts about designing good investor presentations. Investor presentation in this … latest results: the Frankenstein presentation design method. Results are quick, but poor. A good … Presentation design … use them as input into the design process rather than a straight copy-paste. Think of different …

Being sick and designing

really big fever and stay in bed. Now, as a designer it is different. My work no longer involves in … Being sick and designing … health has a direct impact on your design work and creativity. I often sense the onset of a cold before … Presentation design …