Sometimes you may be asked to provide information for any professional purpose, which may include presenting a research or report in front of your colleagues or pitching an idea or project to a client or investor.
Or perhaps presenting your career in a job interview or speaking at an event or conference.
How to grab the audience's attention by telling the story
There is no doubt that designing interactive and attractive slides helps your presentation to be unique, which may open up more horizons for you and allow you to get great opportunities as well.
If you are someone who sees things from a visual perspective, you may find designing slides an interesting process when preparing a presentation.
How to prepare an interactive presentation
When working on a presentation, it's important to keep your audience in mind. Don't assume they know everything and make sure the content is clearly explained.
The way you begin your presentation determines how your audience will understand your presentation.
You have to grab the audience's attention and make sure that they interact with you, and the best way to do that is to tell a story.
You have to stand in front of everyone and speak in a way that attracts and inspires the audience so that they don't get bored. Stories are the link between you and your audience.
Storytelling is becoming increasingly popular, both in the design and business worlds.
In fact, storytelling is a skill that employers focus on. Stories can inspire, motivate, grab their attention, motivate them, and persuade them to come up with an idea.
Stories are the key that connects the pieces of content in a unique style that touches our emotions.
Stories are what drives our interest and curiosity to learn more.
So, the worst a narrator can do is chronologically narrate the events and digress on this and that.
This may seem appropriate for some stories, however feel free to change your approach and study carefully what type of story or angle will leave a strong impression on your audience.
Remember, you don't have much time to get the audience's attention, so you have to work hard to get their attention.
Tips and tricks for telling and presenting a story
One of the main challenges presenters face is their love to talk a lot. They may continue to talk for a long time about certain topics that interest and enthusiasm.
Of course, people want to hear it, but they don't have the time. They want to remember what they hear.
That's why I'm a big fan of the "picakucha" style, a Japanese style created by a group of architects who loved hearing other people talk but couldn't stand hearing the long conversations [s].
From this standpoint, they devised a special method. “Pechacocha” is a set of 20 slides of 20 seconds each that are automatically preset.
If you get busy talking and move to distracting topics, the slides will change successively and the duration of the presentation as a whole is only about six minutes.
When it comes to design and presentation, I lean heavily on the concept of creative constraints.
Sometimes you may feel frustrated if you only have six minutes to talk about an idea or concept that is important but really challenging to see what you can achieve.
Now, I challenge you, how will you tell your story in just 20 slides?
From this standpoint, they devised a special method. “Pechacocha” is a set of 20 slides of 20 seconds each that are automatically preset.
If you get busy talking and move to distracting topics, the slides will change successively and the duration of the presentation as a whole is only about six minutes.
When it comes to design and presentation, I lean heavily on the concept of creative constraints.
Sometimes you may feel frustrated if you only have six minutes to talk about an idea or concept that is important but really challenging to see what you can achieve.
Now, I challenge you, how will you tell your story in just 20 slides?