PRESENTATIONTREND 2017

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CHANGEIN DESIGNSTYLE &TENOR

From Roosevelt “Duties of AmericanCitizenship”, to Gandhi’s “Quit India”, to SteveJobs “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”, to MalalaYousafzai “Forgotten Children” – the style &tenor of the presentation change from onegeneration to another.

Contribution from new age Marketers &Entrepreneurs such as Seth Godin, GuyKawasaki, Garr Reynolds & many others aresignificant. Today, common sense designseems to prevail – less is more, flat design, realvisuals, and storytelling are some of thedominating themes.

TREND 1:NOT JUST ANY

IMAGE, TELLA STORY

Presenters love stock image sites likeShutterstock & iStockPhoto for the

range of images they offer. The trendis changing now. More & more

business leaders are now preferringreal images that narrate a story, ratherthan using images just for the sake of

using them.

TREND 2:REUSABLE

TEMPLATES,MAKES YOU ADESIGN PRO

Are you still spending hours designingyour own slides? Presentation

template sites like SlideCEO.com offerthousands of business slides. You justhave to download & start using them.Start looking like a design pro with the

templates from slide stock sites.

TREND 3:FLAT DESIGN,KEEPS DESIGN

SIMPLE

Simplicity in design, cross devicecompatibility, easy to understand aresome of the feature that makes flat

design popular. This trend will continueto dominate in Powerpoint presentation

design as well.

TREND 4:REAL-TIME

COLLABORATION,TAKES CENTER

STAGE

Real-time collaboration is exciting andhighly rated among the youngworkforce. New presentation

platforms such as Google Slides arerevolutionizing the way peoplecollaborate. Multiple users cansimultaneously work on same

presentation from different countries.

TREND 5:VERSION

CONTROL, GETSBETTER

Do you remember the days wherecontrolling the version of the

Powerpoint use to be a nightmare.Today version control is much simplerwith Cloud based automated version

management systems.

TREND 6:MOBILE PHONE,

SMALL SCREEN –BIG TRACTION

Mobile friendly presentation tool likethe mobile phone projectors are seeingrapid adoption by the business users.Sales executives making their pitchfrom smart phones or tablet is very

common today.

TREND 7:VIRTUALREALITY,

WILL RULETHE STAGE

Virtual reality has gained momentum inthe last couple of years, with

investments from technology giantssuch as Facebook, Google & Microsoft.

They are expected to take thepresentation experience even morecloser to the reality – imagine beingtaken to Africa for a presentation on

African safari.

TREND 8:AUDIENCEFEEDBACK,

WITHINMINUTES

Do you still leave the stage without aclue on how your audience feel?

Technology is better now, some of theadvanced tool enable you to get real-

time feedback even before youcomplete your presentation. CheckoutZoho ShowTime, it allows you to getdirect feedback from the audience

within minutes.

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