Monday, 14 September 2015

How Prezi Presentation Design Broke The Mold

By Daphne Bowen


Prezi is a great cloud based presentation application that was created to bring an entirely new outlook on the way we make presentations. The specific prezi presentation design that one decides to employ will have a huge impact on how the audience chooses to respond to you. The term prezi was derived from the Hungarian word meaning presentation.

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 It was originally made by three Hungarian nationals thus name, which is the Hungarian word for presentation.

Its application is quite easy to understand. The first step is logging in to their online accounts. The new users will have to sign up for new accounts. They will further be required to select an account option either free or a paid account. Getting started is easily illustrated by simple step by step instructional videos available on you tube. This way the new users can get to be quickly familiarized with the basics.

Lets now get to the interesting bit, how to create a presentation design. There are a number of templates on offer that you will be required to choose from. This is important in determining whether your view will be two dimensional or three dimensional. The 3-D templates are more versatile since they allow you to zoom In and out of the background. The text, colors and objects interaction with the landscape are usually determined by the choice of the template.

The themes only go as far giving you the ground work. The actual meat of the content will have to be supplied by you. This should not in any way be a daunting task for if you focus your ideas around the major points of you argument then the rest of the intricate details will be filled naturally.

The dynamism offered by prezi is important in giving it the edge over other tools. This coupled with the fact that it offers an escape from boring old ways is a huge advantage on its part. It also does not hurt that it is totally free and available on a cloud basis. This implies that you can edit your work and access it anywhere at any time.

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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