How to Create Good Slides

Suppose that by now you have your story as an outline or as a mind map, or maybe just written as
plain text. What’s next? Now you get to the slides. This is the process that I typically follow:

        1. Reproduce the story in your presentation software—PowerPoint, Keynote, or whatever
you are using: One slide per message, text only.

       2. Decide what you want to see on the slides on a very basic conceptual level: Text or
visuals? What kind of visuals? Some people sketch their slides on paper at this stage. I
don’t, but only because my drawing skills are terrible and my Keynote skills are very
good, so it makes more sense for me to sketch in Keynote, or a similar program.

      3. Define the overall style for the presentation: Colors, fonts, backgrounds, textures, and
so on.

      4. Finalize the slides: Draw the diagrams, find the pictures, place the text, and so on.