XD for Presentations

/in ,


Bart Van de Wiele

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

XD for Presentations

Thursday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Central

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, Bart 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.

Fluid Transitions

/in ,


Richard Goring

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Fluid Transitions

Thursday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Central

PowerPoint offers a number of great ways to seamlessly transition from one slide to the next —  most recently, the extraordinary Morph feature. Learn how to use transitions between slides and between elements within your slides, to get your audience drooling!

Topics include:

  • how to think ‘outside the slide’ — literally!
  • consideration of timing, speed, distance
  • creating beautiful and impressive sequences
  • practical demonstrations of bringing elements to life
  • examples to inspire your creativity

The session will be highly practical with discussion on how to achieve a specific style, and a live demo of the technique being created in PowerPoint.

Adobe Apps for Presentations

/in ,


Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Adobe Apps for Presentations

Thursday, 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Central

You already have Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign… so why not use them to help make your presentations?

Topics include:

  • Building content in Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator, and then exporting for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides
  • Plug-ins and add-ons that help bridge the gap
  • How CC helps

Make Effective Infographics Fast

/in ,


Mike Parkinson

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Make Effective Infographics Fast

Thursday, 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Central

Learn to quickly turn information, words, and data into clear, compelling infographics. You’ll get real-world tips and tricks to speed development, and also receive Mike’s popular “Graphic Cheat Sheet” (and other tools) that helps pick the right graphic for the job. This high energy, interactive session shares a proven concepting process to develop powerful infographics. You’ll also get key rendering principles and tactics for use in PowerPoint, Illustrator, and other tools.

Technical Type for Presentations

/in ,


Nolan Haims

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Technical Type for Presentations

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central

If you still think that you can’t use professional-grade typography in PowerPoint, it’s time to take another look. In this session, we’ll explore the program’s features and capabilities for making type shine and for moving well beyond the worlds of Arial and Calibri.

Topics include:

  • The pros and cons of embedding
  • Cloud fonts
  • Font themes
  • Formatting tips and techniques
  • Converting fonts to shapes
  • Fonts and templates

From Inspiration to Presentation

/in ,


Jole Simmons

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

From Inspiration to Presentation

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central

Have you ever been on a website and saw some amazing animation or something that really caught your eye? Or maybe even watched a movie with some super cool opening credits? Don’t just admire them and move on… use them for inspiration!

Inclusive Presentations

/in ,


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

/in ,


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

/in ,


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

/in ,


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.