Color is a huge part of the fast-paced world of design. Out with the old, in the with the new! Last year’s colors have been replaced with fresh palettes. And Pantone’s Color of the Year, Viva Magenta, is getting a lot of attention from decor to fashion to graphic design. Today we’re looking at what makes this color so attractive and how to import and use it in your presentation design. Why It’s A Great Option The experts are weighing in on Pantone’s Color of the Year, and here’s what they have to say. Pantone Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman says Viva Magenta “vibrates with vim and vigor. I ..read more

You don’t have time to sit and wait for creativity to strike. Not with an upcoming presentation and a blank slide deck staring back at you. One of the most frequent problems presenters and designers struggle with is where to start. In our past few blogs we’ve been talking about using AI to help start your presentations.  Today we are giving you another way to chase down inspiration for your presentation design: Behance. Behance is a community of creatives whose “main focus is to showcase and discover creative work.” With over 24 million designers, artists, and photographers, it’s a resour ..read more

For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing how AI (artificial intelligence) is changing the presentation design game. Check out these stats about presentation design: 91% of presenters say they feel more confident when they have a well-designed slide deck 45 % find it difficult to design effective layouts 41% say it’s tough to find or implement good visuals 47% say they generally spend more than 8 hours on design Does AI have the power to change some of these stats for the better? We hope so. Today, we want to wrap things up with a discussion of the pros and cons of using AI in your ..read more

No one enjoys staring at blank PowerPoint screen. As we all know, starting is often the hardest part. Luckily, advances in AI technology are making it easier to build a custom slide deck without having to agonize over every single design element. In our last blog, we talked about how artificial intelligence is changing presentation design. If you missed that, you can check it out here. Today we want to show you how to specifically put AI technology to work in your presentation design using two popular programs: PowerPoint and Canva. Using PowerPoint Designer We are starting with PowerPoint Des ..read more

To create the images shown above, I entered the words “half brain half technology watercolor shapes dark” in Canva’s text to image AI generator. It took about 1 minute to get a customized image. Artificial Intelligence is expanding the horizons of technology-fueled creativity. It is also changing the presentation design world in new and exciting ways, and today we want to explore these innovations. We’ll start with a quick overview of AI technology, and then we’ll jump into how a couple of the presentation giants are using it. What is AI? In recent months, AI-generated images have been increas ..read more

This is the last of the 3 blogs in our year-in-review series. We’ve been unpacking the top 5 most popular TED talks of 2022 which each gained over 2 million views. So far we’ve looked at presentation design and presentation delivery. Check out those blogs if you missed them. Today, we are exploring the content and structure of these messages to see how TED speakers at the top of the field are developing their presentations. What patterns will we find in their content? And what lessons can we learn from these popular speakers? 1. “How a ‘Hi Level’ mindset helps you realize your potential,” Cord ..read more

In our last blog, we started a year-in-review of the top 5 most popular TED Talks from 2022. Each of these 5 presentations got over 2 million views, so they must be doing something right. We’re on the quest to figure out what that something is. First we looked at presentation design. Check out that blog here if you missed it. Today we are breaking down the TED speakers’ delivery styles to see what made their popularity soar. And in our next blog, we’ll be unpacking the content of these presentations. But for today, we are talking about delivery. What is it that these wildly popular speakers ar ..read more

At Ethos3, it’s our job to study what is succeeding on the presentation front. So, in our next few blogs, we’re doing a year-in-review. We’ll be looking at a specific set of presentations: the 5 most popular TED Talks of 2022 as determined by the number of views. We’ll unpack the presentations for patterns in design, delivery, and content. We want to see what these speakers did to reach over 2 million views each. Today, we’re breaking down the presentation design in these wildly popular talks. What did these 5 speakers show on the screen? How did that affect their success? And what can we lear ..read more

A lot of design and presentation websites out there are claiming to know the 2023 color trends. But we are just 5 days into the new year, so we aren’t comfortable using the word “trend.” At least not yet. However, we do want to look at the color forecasts designers are making. So we’ve explored what designers across the fields of fashion, home décor, product design, and graphic design are saying to look for in 2023. These are colors and tones that are on the cusp of making a statement. And before long, we’ll be seeing them everywhere. Here are the 3 things we see designers forecasting across t ..read more

It’s the time of year that we talk about resolutions, about change. My husband and I work out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at our local gym. We usually dread January because we know it’s the month when the gym will be the most crowded. If we can just hold on until mid-February, we know the crowd will go back to normal and we won’t have to fight for our favorite treadmills. By then, it will be just us “regulars” there. But what distinguishes the “regulars” from the “resolutioners”? Really, it boils down to one thing. Habits. So rather than talk about resolutions, we want to talk ..read more