XD Presentations

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Michael Ninness



Howard Pinsky

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

XD Presentations

Friday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

Adobe XD is changing the way many think about designing and prototyping for the web and mobile applications, but it’s also found an unexpected use case. With its blazing fast performance and intuitive features like Auto-Animate, more and more users are starting to craft their presentations completely using XD. In this session, Michael and Howard will share their tips and tricks for how to get the most out of Adobe XD for presentations, how to build incredible animations to tell your story (without having to use a complicated timeline interface), how to collaborate with others to build your presentation, and how to share and present your final masterpiece.



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#SlideADay Project

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Julie Terberg

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

#SlideADay Project

Friday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

It’s easy to get burned out creating work for the same brands all the time, even with multiple clients and projects. This session will inspire you to think beyond conventional slides and take a fresh approach for your next presentation design.

The #SLIDEADAY Project began with a personal challenge: devote time to pure design play, experiment with new ideas, and post one slide concept per day. The results are sketch-like experiments of color, texture, images, shapes, fonts, and layouts—all the decisions that influence slide design.

Julie will show a series of her concepts, the inspiration behind them, and some of the preliminary work as she explains the processes and techniques used to achieve the final designs.

Topics include:

  • Tips and techniques for slide design
  • Inspiration sources
  • Designing slides that convey ideas
  • Applying your concepts in a presentation

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InDesign and Adobe Apps for Presentations

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David Blatner

David Blatner

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

InDesign and Adobe Apps for Presentations

Friday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am

You already have Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign… so why not use them to help make—or even make!—your presentations? Join David Blatner as he explores some of the great options for:

  • Building content in Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator, and then exporting for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides
  • Amazing plug-ins, scripts, and resources to help you build high-quality slides
  • Why you should consider HTML5 (exported right out of InDesign!) for your next slide deck

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Animation Techniques

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Jole Simmons

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Animation Techniques

Friday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am

When you’re designing presentations, you need to think outside the box and function more like a filmmaker. In this focused session, veteran presentation designer Jole Simmons will teach you how! Plus, you’ll learn why you don’t need to be afraid to animate… in fact, you’ll actually start looking for places to use these tools.

We’ll explore:

  • ways to add subtle touches to your decks to really make them look polished
  • how to use animation to create rhythm and continuity in your presentations
  • and perhaps most importantly: how to have fun with presentation design again!

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What Makes it Click

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Steve Wishman



Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

What Makes it “Click”

Friday, 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Is presentation design just about making good slides? What happens when we move beyond the bullet slides and the standard template, and really think about what a presentation is capable of? This session — part interview, part showcase — will be a doorway into what’s possible in a presentation. Steve WIshman was a former Art Director for Duarte, and an Art Director/Manager at Prezi. His software-agnostic approach to building presentations focuses on the qualities we see in film, cinematography, graphic design, broadcast advertising, and much more.

In this session we’ll look at some of Steve’s projects that have shaped his career, how he blends various media and technologies into his client body of work, and what it truly means to build cinematic moments into a presentation. We’ll also learn helpful techniques for expanding our ability to tell stories, and discuss where presentation design is going in the next few years.

Click conference host Mark Heaps will help act as a facilitator for this session; interviewing Steve about his work and hosting a Q&A with attendees.


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Creative Wow 2019

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Creative Wow

Thursday, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Come see and/or share amazing software demos from around the world! CreativeWow is an informal and fun evening event where designers and developers can connect and find ways to make magic.*

Designers: Do you enjoy finding ways to become more efficient and productive? Do you like seeing amazing technology? Grab some dessert and see what cool things the devs have been up to!

Developers: Do you have a software challenge that you’ve been working on in your spare time? Or some feature, tool, or service that you’ve developed that is just so cool you have to share it? Come show it at the CreativeWow! reception, Thursday night. The rules are simple: You have 5 minutes to fire up and demo your stuff in front of an audience of your peers. To sign up, contact David.

*Author and futurist Arthur C. Clark once wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”


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RGB and CMYK: Making Colors Match From Screen to Print and Digital

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Steve Laskevitch

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

RGB and CMYK: Making Colors Match From Screen to Print and Digital

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Today, we prepare documents for a variety of media, and, no, despite the rumors, print is not dead. In a world of both RGB and CMYK, when and how should you convert from one to the other? And what should be converted and what shouldn’t? And when some content shouldn’t appear in some media but is necessary in another, how do we “author once, publish for many?”

If you care about managing your time, minimizing the juggling of files, and maximizing quality, this is a session you need.


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Building Books, Journals, and Other Long Documents

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Chad Chelius

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Building Books, Journals, and Other Long Documents

Thursday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Building long documents in InDesign can be a challenging process… dare we say a chore in some instances! That is, if you don’t use the tools in InDesign that are designed for these types of projects. If you’d like the ability to break long documents apart so that multiple users can work on the same project at the same time, and you want the ability to keep the formatting consistent between all of those documents, you’ll want to attend this session. Learn some best practices that will ease the process of building long documents as well as some tips that can save your bacon when trouble arises. In this session you’ll see a real life example of how one might go about building a long document from start to finish.

Topics include:

  • How the Book panel in InDesign works
  • How to leverage the functionality in the Book panel to make edits quickly and consistently
  • Some tricks to help you avoid common problems
  • Best practices to make the process more efficient and faster
  • Building a Table of Contents for the book
  • Tips for importing Word content into InDesign
  • Leveraging Text Variables

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Typographic Design for eDocuments

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Eric Menninga

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Typographic Design for eDocuments

Thursday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Electronic books are huge. The convenience of having a library at one’s finger tips outweighs the various aesthetic downsides. In this talk, we will talk about the different types of electronic books, including reflowable books and fixed-format titles. We’ll focus on what the primary differences are between publishing for paper and publishing for screen in order to understand the constraints. With these constraints in mind, we can learn how, with care and attention to detail, to produce books that will look great – at least most of the time! Expect to get fairly specific and detailed information about formats and technologies.


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Click: Three Minutes Max

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Mark Heaps

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Click: Three Minutes Max

Thursday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

It’s time for another game where instructors will share their best tip or trick for Presentation Design in under 3 minutes, playing for a grand prize for a member of the audience they represent. There are always great tips attendees learn during this time, and we have a lot of fun.


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