The document outlines trends in presentation design from 2017, highlighting shifts in style and storytelling with an emphasis on using real images rather than stock photos. Key trends include the rise of reusable templates, flat design, real-time collaboration, improved version control, mobile-friendly tools, virtual reality, and immediate audience feedback through advanced technology. It suggests that these changes are influenced by marketers and entrepreneurs and are altering how presentations are created and delivered.

1. PRESENTATION
TREND 2017
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2. CHANGE
IN DESIGN
STYLE &
TENOR
From Roosevelt “Duties of American
Citizenship”, to Gandhi’s “Quit India”, to Steve
Jobs “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”, to Malala
Yousafzai “Forgotten Children” – the style &
tenor of the presentation change from one
generation to another.
Contribution from new age Marketers &
Entrepreneurs such as Seth Godin, Guy
Kawasaki, Garr Reynolds & many others are
significant. Today, common sense design
seems to prevail – less is more, flat design, real
visuals, and storytelling are some of the
dominating themes.

3. TREND 1:
NOT JUST ANY
IMAGE, TELL
A STORY
Presenters love stock image sites like
Shutterstock & iStockPhoto for the
range of images they offer. The trend
is changing now. More & more
business leaders are now preferring
real images that narrate a story, rather
than using images just for the sake of
using them.

4. TREND 2:
REUSABLE
TEMPLATES,
MAKES YOU A
DESIGN PRO
Are you still spending hours designing
your own slides? Presentation
template sites like SlideCEO.com offer
thousands of business slides. You just
have to download & start using them.
Start looking like a design pro with the
templates from slide stock sites.

5. TREND 3:
FLAT DESIGN,
KEEPS DESIGN
SIMPLE
Simplicity in design, cross device
compatibility, easy to understand are
some of the feature that makes flat
design popular. This trend will continue
to dominate in Powerpoint presentation
design as well.

6. TREND 4:
REAL-TIME
COLLABORATION,
TAKES CENTER
STAGE
Real-time collaboration is exciting and
highly rated among the young
workforce. New presentation
platforms such as Google Slides are
revolutionizing the way people
collaborate. Multiple users can
simultaneously work on same
presentation from different countries.

7. TREND 5:
VERSION
CONTROL, GETS
BETTER
Do you remember the days where
controlling the version of the
Powerpoint use to be a nightmare.
Today version control is much simpler
with Cloud based automated version
management systems.

8. TREND 6:
MOBILE PHONE,
SMALL SCREEN –
BIG TRACTION
Mobile friendly presentation tool like
the mobile phone projectors are seeing
rapid adoption by the business users.
Sales executives making their pitch
from smart phones or tablet is very
common today.

9. TREND 7:
VIRTUAL
REALITY,
WILL RULE
THE STAGE
Virtual reality has gained momentum in
the last couple of years, with
investments from technology giants
such as Facebook, Google & Microsoft.
They are expected to take the
presentation experience even more
closer to the reality – imagine being
taken to Africa for a presentation on
African safari.

10. TREND 8:
AUDIENCE
FEEDBACK,
WITHIN
MINUTES
Do you still leave the stage without a
clue on how your audience feel?
Technology is better now, some of the
advanced tool enable you to get real-
time feedback even before you
complete your presentation. Checkout
Zoho ShowTime, it allows you to get
direct feedback from the audience
within minutes.

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