Applications

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Presentation templates

Lesson 9 of 12 in Applications.

Google Slides: Master Slides and Layouts · LearnFree
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Staff make slides every week, and almost every organisation's deck is a graveyard of eleven fonts and four blues. Few brand surfaces are used so often and designed so little.

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One system reaching a shopfront, a phone, a van and a form, each needing a different amount of it.
An ink drawing of four colleagues in a meeting room looking at a messy slide made of mismatched blues, an orange box and different lettering styles, with the presenter standing beside it.
A meeting room screen shows a slide patched together from four blues and three lettering styles, the usual result when a slide template is hard to edit.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The layout everything inherits from. Where a template is actually built.”

    • Master slide
    • Template
    • Decision point
    • Progressive disclosure
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The handful of slide types a deck really needs.”

    • Wayfinding
    • Layout set
    • Legibility distance
    • Letterhead
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The colours, fonts and defaults the software applies. Frequently ignored by designers.”

    • Rollout
    • Livery
    • Theme file
    • Wayfinding

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