20 ways to jazz up your PowerPoint presentations

To create an amazing PowerPoint presentation, you have to learn the process of effective presentation design.

After four years of blogging, I’ve written a number of posts designed to help you create more visually engaging and effective PowerPoint presentations. As all blogs posts do, some resonated better than others and provided great discussion in the comments.

I aggregated 20 of the best posts to help you become a better PowerPoint presentation designer. They cover specific presentation design techniques, book reviews, tips, methods and more.

Without further ado, here they are:

1. 5 Ways to Start Your Presentation Off Strong: You have seconds to grab your audience’s attention, and only a few minutes to keep it. Technology has made it even worse—you have to compete with audience members multitasking on their computers or smartphones. Learn how to grab their attention quickly when you read this post.