How to Turn an Ugly PowerPoint Slide into Something Great (ft. One Skill)
Folks, I have a great one for you today. One Skill, a popular PowerPoint YouTube celebrity (yes, that’s a thing) reached out to me and asked if he and I could collaborate on something. Turns out, he loves the Slide Cow Design a Good Slide Series (check out the latest episode here) and wanted to […]
Design A Good PowerPoint Slide: Episode 9 – The Medical Theme
I love a good challenge, and this one is probably the best one I’ve come across to date. We’re going to transform a Slide Cow subscriber’s text-heavy, medically-themed PowerPoint slide into something epic. The request This week’s request came from Sanjay. His email is below. Hi Yoyo, I [learned] a lot from your tutorials and […]
Revolutionize your PowerPoint presentations with 3D Models
We’re going to take a break from the weekly Slide Cow PowerPoint tutorials. Instead, let’s focus on something HUGE that Microsoft just rolled out for the Microsoft Office suite; 3D Models! That’s right! You, as a presenter, can now import 3D models into your PowerPoint slides. I’m not talking about some 3D image that we […]
Design A Good PowerPoint Slide: Episode 8 – Creative Front Cover
We’ve done our fair share of front cover PowerPoint tutorials on Slide Cow (see here, here and here). Front covers are my favorite kind of PowerPoint slides. They make me get insanely creative. That said, I jumped at the opportunity to help out a Slide Cow follower with a front cover slide that she needed a […]
Your 8 Stages of Making a Presentation as Illustrated by Hilarious GIFs
When you’re asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation, you’re pretty much being asked to go on a crazy ride full of laughter, grief, anxiety and a sense of accomplishment. But hey, let’s have a laugh at that process! Here are your eight stages of making a presentation as illustrated by hilarious GIFs Stage 1: The […]
Design A Good PowerPoint Slide: Episode 7 – The Agenda
If you’re presenting at a major event like a business conference, it’s imperative that you have a slide that introduces the key topics that will be covered throughout the day. Think of it as an icebreaker for your audience; you’re easing them into the concept of covering multiple components depending on what time it is. […]