Presentation Design
Planning and designing professional slide decks is one of my absolute favorite activities. Whether it’s movies, or musical albums, or book series – I love a consistent, unified vibe. Presentations allow me to explore these types of experiences, orchestrating a beginning, middle, and end, crafting a product that takes the user on a carefully curated journey.
Below are some examples of Presentations I’ve developed with varying audiences and using different tools to construct, including Figma, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, and Apple’s Keynote.
Business Development Presentation
I built this oral proposal presentation using Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint. I used PowerPoint to organize and populate the content of the presentation, and Illustrator to create the various infographics necessary to illustrate the talking points of the presenters. I also created the background designs of each slide in Illustrator by designing on an dartboard of the same aspect ratio, then exporting as a PNG to be added in PowerPoint.
Operational Concept Presentation
Over the past few years Figma has become more standard in my toolset for presentation and even general graphic design. I conceptualized this deck as a simple pitch deck intended to convince the audience of an adoption of a new method of analytics in their imaginary work environment. I chose Figma as the medium for this project because imagined myself on a UX Design team tasked with creating a deck for leadership, maybe deciding to use a tool that’s standard in many UX designers’ toolkit. Figma offers quick prototyping, intuitive animations, and easy sharing options on top of the usual export settings found in Keynote and PowerPoint. With this project, a designer could switch seamlessly between their interface design drafts and a presentation for their next meeting.
Quarterly Financial Report
Quarterly reports are essential for providing timely visibility into a firm’s performance, enabling management to track progress against strategic objectives and make informed decisions. They enhance transparency for stakeholders by delivering consistent updates on revenue, profitability, and risk exposure in a dynamic market environment. Additionally, regular reporting supports regulatory compliance and helps identify emerging trends or issues before they materially impact the business.
Project KickOff Presentation
Kick Off presentations are a staple in the proposal management world. When a Request for Proposal drops, proposal specialists scramble to read, analyze, and shred RFPs so that they can develop a plan to respond to the opportunity and submit their proposal on time. To commence the proposal response, proposal managers schedule a Kick Off meeting with subject matter experts, proposal writers, and anyone who will be part of the contractor team. for these meetings, they prepare the Kick Off Deck: a presentation that describes the opportunity, provides a schedule of important milestones and deadlines, the approach the team will take in their response, important contacts, and a checklist of the necessary documents needed for submission. For this project, I used Apple’s Keynote because it’s a common piece of software available to many, standard on MacOS. the same could be said of Google Slides, too. The point is that, with the right approach, even the most commonly available tools can be used for very important projects.