Inclusive Presentations


Nolan Haims

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Inclusive Presentations

Thursday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Central

Audiences are changing and becoming more diverse by the day, and their wants and needs of are evolving—as are the expectations of us as presentation designers. This session will address how design, communication, and software techniques can help speakers take into account age, gender, ethnicity, physical abilities, language barriers, and even attention spans.

Topics include:

  • Selecting more mindful imagery and iconography
  • Balancing text and visuals for older and younger audiences
  • Easy social sharing
  • Making your PowerPoint accessible and 508-compliant
  • Live transcription and subtitles with just a click!

Amazing PowerPoint Features that will Leave You Speechless


Richard Goring

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Amazing PowerPoint Features that will Leave You Speechless

Thursday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am Central

PowerPoint has a reputation for being boring, and sometimes it seems its features really haven’t changed since flint was at the cutting edge of cutting edges! But that all changed since Office 365 came along. Now, there are new tools added every few weeks, and there are tremendous gains to be had from a host of functions. Sadly, these features are all too often hidden away, out of sight, and out of mind.

In this session, you’ll see all the amazing things you can now do with PowerPoint to bring your presentations, eLearning, and other content to life, by telling visual stories in an engaging and interactive way.

Topics include:

  • How to access graphics seamlessly
  • Adding live heatmaps and all sorts of new charts
  • Incorporating 3D models
  • Capturing video and screen recording
  • Converting sketches into slides
  • Generating live subtitles as you talk
  • Using the terrific new Morph transition to do completely astounding things in so easily that you’ll be amazed you ever tried to live without it.

If you gave up on PowerPoint long ago, now’s the time to try again. No, really. It’s amazing what you’ll be able to achieve.

The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator, with Ryan Orcutt


Ryan Orcutt
Creative Director, Duarte



Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator

An Interview with Ryan Orcutt, Creative Director, Duarte

Thursday, 9:15 am – 10:00 am Central

The role of the presentation designer is similar to being a translator standing between two people who don’t speak the same language. Your job is to understand both sides and find a way to help them communicate. Join Mark Heaps as he interviews Duarte Creative Director Ryan Orcutt in this fascinating and insightful interview!

Click: Welcome


Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Click: Welcome

Thursday, 9:00 am – 9:15 am Central

Presentation design is about telling a story: communicating, expressing, teaching, arguing, explaining… And it’s only successful when it is received and understood by the audience. Welcome to Click: The Presentation Design Conference, where we explore how to construct a user/audience experience through the power of design.

Building PowerPoint Templates for Your Team and Clients


Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Building PowerPoint Templates for Your Team and Clients

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 3:15 pm Central

Imagine sharing your beautifully designed and painstakingly crafted files with your client, knowing that they will edit the files on their own. Sounds like a nightmare, right? But 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
  • Creating custom layouts and off-slide instructions
  • Building solid masters

Learn to Love PowerPoint: 0–60 for Adobe Users


Nolan Haims

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Learn to Love PowerPoint: 0–60 for Adobe Users

Wednesday, 9:00 am – 11:30 am Central

PowerPoint is the app that creative pros love to hate. And yet, we all have to use it sooner or later! The dirty secret is that once you learn how PowerPoint works, you’ll find it’s actually incredibly powerful and can perform some tasks even better than Adobe’s tools.

If you’ve ever feared or hated PowerPoint, take this opportunity to get to know it a little better. The more you know, the more fun it is!