Think about human obstacles!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:11 am
Learn more about slide backgrounds and PowerPoint templates elsewhere on our blog.
Design for the screen space available
The second really important thing to consider is that most standard templates are in the widescreen default size (1920 px by 1080 px).
Same conference presentation mock up as above but with the slide dimension of the standard widescreen written on.
However, for conference presentations almost phone codes brazil anything goes. The screen might be square, or ultrawide. You don’t want your story to be told in a tiny portion of the screen but to fill the space. So, before you start designing slides, change the aspect ratio of the slides in PowerPoint to match the dimensions of the screen. (We say to do this first as PowerPoint does weird things removing formatting if you change the slide dimensions with content already on the slides.)
Same mock up with a super wide screen shown.
To change aspect ratio in PowerPoint go to Design, Slide Size, Custom and then enter the correct details. To get these speak to the AV team and ask for the size of the screen in pixels and enter those details in PowerPoint with the units px. Taking the effort to do this will mean your slides look awesome in the space. Learn more about changing slide size in PowerPoint and in Google Slides.
There’s one other consideration you need to be aware of before you start putting content on slides and that’s obstacles, usually of the human variety! Remember, there are areas of the slide space that may be completely blocked because the presenter is standing in front of the slides, or the heads of the front rows of the audience pop up, or there’s some furniture onstage.
Same mock up with sections of the conference presentation screen blocked out around the presenter and along the bottom where the audience heads overlap with the screen.
You need to block out those spaces to prevent putting important information where no one will see it. Here we’ve done it with a semi-transparent shape added to the slide master (this means it will sit behind your content).
Design for the screen space available
The second really important thing to consider is that most standard templates are in the widescreen default size (1920 px by 1080 px).
Same conference presentation mock up as above but with the slide dimension of the standard widescreen written on.
However, for conference presentations almost phone codes brazil anything goes. The screen might be square, or ultrawide. You don’t want your story to be told in a tiny portion of the screen but to fill the space. So, before you start designing slides, change the aspect ratio of the slides in PowerPoint to match the dimensions of the screen. (We say to do this first as PowerPoint does weird things removing formatting if you change the slide dimensions with content already on the slides.)
Same mock up with a super wide screen shown.
To change aspect ratio in PowerPoint go to Design, Slide Size, Custom and then enter the correct details. To get these speak to the AV team and ask for the size of the screen in pixels and enter those details in PowerPoint with the units px. Taking the effort to do this will mean your slides look awesome in the space. Learn more about changing slide size in PowerPoint and in Google Slides.
There’s one other consideration you need to be aware of before you start putting content on slides and that’s obstacles, usually of the human variety! Remember, there are areas of the slide space that may be completely blocked because the presenter is standing in front of the slides, or the heads of the front rows of the audience pop up, or there’s some furniture onstage.
Same mock up with sections of the conference presentation screen blocked out around the presenter and along the bottom where the audience heads overlap with the screen.
You need to block out those spaces to prevent putting important information where no one will see it. Here we’ve done it with a semi-transparent shape added to the slide master (this means it will sit behind your content).