How to Get Design Ideas for Presentation?
Starting a new presentation from scratch may seem frightening. Filling the empty slide with attractive images and content is not easy. Once you have the idea and content for the presentation, the next challenge is to get design ideas for the presentation. Once you have added the images, the next step is to arrange the images, shapes, tables, and other elements.
Staring at the blank slide is not going to solve the issue. You will have to start with a template to speed up the process. The right PowerPoint template is an important part of a professional presentation. There are online resources and libraries that you can explore to get design ideas for PPTs.
Importance of Professional Design for Presentation
A PPT design is not just about photos and text; several other elements influence the engagement of the viewers. What type of font do you use in the headings, and where does the call to action button on the slide go? What type of tables are used to display data? There are many similar aspects that must be considered to create a professional presentation.
PowerPoint has a built-in feature or tool that can help you generate design ideas for slides. This tool usually analyzes an existing slide and generates a few ideas to optimize it.
If you need to create a complete presentation from scratch, we have an amazing tool that can do it for you. We will discuss the AI Presentation Maker in the next few sections. For now, let’s look at the Designer Tool in PowerPoint.
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Designer Tool in PowerPoint
The Designer tool suggests possible ways to optimize slides with different fonts, color schemes, visual elements, and formatting. The tool works for existing presentations only, and the slide must have some content and elements for it to work. Not every slide will receive suggestions with this tool.
This is a decent tool if you need some additional ideas to style your PPT, but not every PowerPoint user has access to it. Only Office 365 subscribers can access it. If you are using the online or web version of PowerPoint, you may be able to use the Designer tool for selected slides.
Benefits of the Designer Tool
Not every user needs this additional tool, as there are some better and more efficient AI alternatives, but here are some reasons why you might want to consider using the Designer tool for PowerPoint presentations.
- Automatic design suggestions based on the available text and data
- Apply new layout possibilities without much effort
- Add data charts, tables, and other elements to make your slides more interesting
- New formats and arrangements of the data for the presentations
However, you must have some data on the slides for the Designer tool to work. If you have not tried this tool, use it to get unique ideas for styling your presentations.
How to Use the Designer Tool?
If you are an Office 365 subscriber, you will see the Designer tool icon in the Home tab, next to the Add-ins button. Navigate to the slide that you want to redesign with the tool.
Click on the Designer tool icon to show you possible design ideas for the slide in the dedicated right pane. Preview different ideas and click on the one that suits your presentation. That design will be applied to the slide instantly.
When you click on the Designer icon, it analyzes the slides and then gives you possible suggestions that you can instantly apply to the presentation. If you try the tool for a slide that has little content or only one image, you will see the error shown in the above media.
Sometimes, the Designer tool does not suggest slides despite the content and images. This tool is just to give you some basic ideas, and you cannot rely entirely on the Designer.
How to Design Slides with AI?
Here comes the most exciting part of this article: using AI for presentations. You need an add-in to integrate AI in PowerPoint, and Twistly is your best bet for professional presentations. This AI presentation maker add-in works just like ChatGPT for PowerPoint.
When the user enters the prompt or topic, Twistly creates professional presentations from scratch. From writing content to adding images and suggesting the best AI PowerPoint templates, Twistly is far better and more advanced than the Designer tool.
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Twistly Templates and AI Designs
You have the blank presentation slide, and here is how to create a professional presentation from scratch with Twistly:
- Launch Twistly, either provide the topic, text, document, or YouTube video link
- Review the AI-generated outline
- Select the template for the slide
- Your professional presentation is ready within moments, fully customizable, and editable.
As a user, you just have to provide the topic and select the template. Twistly automatically manages and designs everything else. This is a perfect tool for students, marketers, instructors, employees, and normal users.
Get Twistly for free now and try amazing features and options for a limited time once you are satisfied with what ChatGPT for PowerPoint offers, upgrade to the premium version to unlock the tool’s full potential.
Final Verdict
The Designer tool or Twistly is the best resource for getting design ideas for presentations. Twistly is a complete AI presentation maker, while the Designer only offers suggestions for specific slides based on the available data and text.