Presentation Design Template
Everything you've learned, built into one place to start from
Not a pretty deck. A disciplined one.
This template is not decoration. Every structural decision in it — how the slides are sequenced, how content is grouped, where the pauses are built in — reflects the research and experiments you've worked through in this course.
The serial position effect. The gap between speaking rate and reading rate. The way cognitive load quietly defeats a presenter who means well. All of it is accounted for here. The template is, in a sense, the course in slide form.
What's Baked In
The research, already at work
The slide structure flows from a single well-written objective — the discipline you practised in Lesson 2.2.
Content is sequenced with primacy and recency in mind. The things that matter most are not buried in the middle.
The template resists the essay-on-a-wall. Slides support what you say — they don't replace it.
Attention resets are planned at the right intervals — so the audience's brain gets a reason to re-engage, not just endure.
A Note on Freedom
The template is a discipline, not a cage.
You are absolutely free to design in whatever way you wish. Use a different colour. Swap the background. Add photographs. Make it yours. The template does not insist on any of that.
What it does insist on — quietly, through its structure — is that you are making decisions from a grounded place. The bones are sound. What you build on them is entirely up to you.
Use this as a starting point, not a final answer. A good, solid starting point — but a starting point nonetheless.
After You Download
The work that no template can do for you
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01Refine Your Content
The template gives you the structure. You bring the thinking. Tighten every slide to its essential point — if a sentence could be cut, cut it.
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02Hone Your Slides
Add images that do genuine work. Adjust backgrounds and colour to suit your context and your audience. Every visual choice should earn its place.
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03Rehearse — Out Loud
Reading your notes is not rehearsing. The slides will only do what you practised them to do. Say it out loud, in full, more than once. The gap between reading and speaking is where presentations get lost.
What follows is a presentation that was designed with everything this course has covered — and is meant to be memorable in a good way. It is a starting point. A good, solid one. The rest is yours to build.
Best on a larger screen
The Presentation Designer has three side-by-side panels — a planning form, live slide preview, and navigation. It works best on a laptop or desktop browser.
On an iPad in landscape mode it may also work — give it a try!
Building your PPTX…