Wednesday, September 2, 2015

How Prezi Presentation Design Broke The Mold

By Daphne Bowen


Prezi is a powerful web based presentation tool. The particular prezi presentation design you choose to implement will determine the response you get from the audience. In general, it was designed to break the monotony of traditional presentation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

The creation and development only took place less than a decade ago yet a huge variety of people such as students, business executives and teachers have totally embraced it. It was originally made by three Hungarian nationals thus name, which is the Hungarian word for presentation.

The applications are not limited to those with an acute understanding of computers and applications. Virtually anybody can set up online accounts at prezi.com where one can sign up and proceed to explore all that it has to offer. A lot of web based tutorials exist to guide you in the earlier stages of design implementation. After creating an account however one is required to select their membership, either free or paid.

The more interesting part is getting into the actual design layout. A number of themes are availed at start up. Choosing a theme will be vital in determining the text color and means by which the objects interact. There is also an additional feature of choosing whether your layout will be 2-D or 3-D. The three dimensional layouts elicits more of a wow effect from the audience if properly used. This is largely due to the ability to zoom in and out of the set.

Since the templates usually only provide the skeleton, the details of the actual presentation will be determined by what you actually intend on presenting. A more general approach that works all the time is to base your ideas around major points of your talk. This will not only give you a bigger picture but will also help you in filling out the minor details at much more ease.

Some of the key advantages have been mentioned in the discussions above. This includes its ability to break the monotony of using traditional tools, and offering a dynamic platform for presenting your ideas. Another worthwhile mention is that it is completely free and easily available irrespective of your location. This is majorly because it allows you to save your work on a cloud based server.

Although being entirely available online is a merit on its part, it could work to the disadvantage of the user in situations where their location has very limited or no access to the internet. Some complaints have also been raised concerning the dizziness effects the 3-D presentations can have on an audience especially when the presenter is quickly scanning through the illustrations. Older people are more inclined to revert to tools they are more used to working with due to the learning curve associated with attempting to understand it.

This brings us to an understanding that prezi is an extremely useful tool that should be adopted by all those who feel the need of adding some oomph to how they present their work. The only thing that we have to encourage in us is the need to learn new things and find relevant ways of applying them to our day to day existence.




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