Sponsored Breakfast Session: Telling your Brand Story

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John Sturino, Issuu

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

Sponsored Breakfast Session:

Telling your Brand Story

Thursday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am

Stories has graduated from a Snapchat format to a full-fledged change in the market. With over 500M daily active users on Instagram Stories, the Stories format is remaking the way consumers interact with mobile content. The challenge to marketers and designers in businesses is staying on brand for all channels. Issuu helps creators tell their story with the new Story Cloud: a suite of services to allow any business to create once and share everywhere. Join John as he discusses Stories and how Issuu’s services & InDesign extension save time, protect your brand and stand out on social and mobile web.



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Mind-blowing PowerPoint. No, Really!

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Richard Goring

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

Mind-blowing PowerPoint. No, Really!

Friday, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Why are most presentations so bad… even truly terrible?! Few people enjoy creating, delivering, or watching PowerPoint presentations… but we can change that. This session explores techniques to create mind-blowing presentations using nothing but standard PowerPoint. Want to know how to create visual slides? Manipulate images? Master animations? Make it interactive? And produce presentations that will astound your audience? Then come along for a masterclass in ways to capture your audience’s attention and help them learn.


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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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Click: Three Minutes Max

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Mark Heaps

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

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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Visualizing Data

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Nolan Haims

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

Visualizing Data

Thursday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Poor data design leads to overly complicated charts that take too long to understand and steal valuable time from your audiences. Worse, a careless approach to visualizing data can lead to misinterpretation of the messages you are trying to communicate.

This session will focus on fundamental design and data visualization principles to help significantly improve the effectiveness of your charts and communicate the story of your data as efficiently as possible.

We will cover:

  • Reducing color and adding emphasis
  • Identifying and removing “chart junk”
  • Why legends are so bad and how to get along without them
  • Solutions for complex data sets

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Creating Files That Work for Others

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Julie Terberg

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

Creating Files That Work for Others

Thursday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Imagine sharing your beautifully designed and painstakingly crafted InDesign or Illustrator files with your client, knowing that they will edit the files on their own. Sounds like a nightmare, right? For presentation designers, this is the reality for almost every project! You hand over your work knowing full well that it may be changed by someone else—sometimes dramatically!

In this session, you’ll learn how to construct and prepare presentations for sharing and editing beyond your system. We’ll focus on PowerPoint files, with some specific tips for Keynote and Google Slides users.

This session will include:

  • The difference between final files and templates
  • Choosing fonts for different scenarios
  • Setting up theme elements
  • Converting graphics from Illustrator
  • Creating custom layouts and off-slide instructions
  • Trimming bloated file sizes

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