Before diving into the actual designing of my slides I wanted to do a little bit of research to see the best practices when designing a pitch deck. I checked out some articles and even looked at some slide deck templates to get some inspiration for the general layout for some of the content.
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I decided to begin designing my slides by sketching out what I thought would be fitting slides according to my pitch content. I focused on the main points and themes to select slides to design.
Using these sketches I was then able to create my first draft of slide designs. I thought these turned out brilliantly. All of the aspects of my branding combined so well here and I felt it was a really strong start.
Looking at previous examples they seem to have a lot more slides than what I have here. Using the 5 minute time allowance we were given, and the amount of slides I have here, 12, it works out to be approximately 41 seconds per slide which to me sounds kind of perfect. I don’t want to get carried away with flicking through then slides when I could be prioritising my content and delivery.
In these designs I managed to sue the logo as a third element to accompany images, acting like a little book mark or stamp in the bottom right corner. I thought this was a fun consistency that’ll add to the design.
Another design element I thought might add to the panels viewing experience is the way I have used my stats and big figures. They all come out of their respective images, to me this creates a third dimension and places a greater importance on the figure.
I also used to figma make to create a mockup of what Stacks interface might look like.
