How to Design Amazing Slides With Help From an AI Assistant
Whether for pitching your best ideas or creating content for courses, many L&D pros are frequent #PowerPoint users. If you're like me and want to work smarter instead of harder, you'll want to know about the AI-enabled Designer feature which will save you time AND make you look good.
PowerPoint Designer improves your slides by using AI to automatically generate design ideas for you to choose from.
While you're putting content on a slide, Designer works in the background to match that content to professionally designed layouts.
How to get design ideas in PowerPoint
Ask for design ideas any time by choosing Design > Design Ideas on the ribbon.
PowerPoint automatically shows you design ideas when you're creating your slides. Over time PowerPoint learns from your experience using design ideas and shows you design ideas at the appropriate time.
Scroll through the suggestions in the Design Ideas pane on the right side of the window.
Click to select the design you want, or else close the window. If you select one of the ideas, your slide is changed accordingly.
You can also select another idea from the pane or go back to your original slide design: Press Ctrl+Z to undo a design change you've just selected.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MIKE TAYLOR
With over two decades of real-life, in-the-trenches experience designing and delivering learning experiences, Mike Taylor understands that effective learning isn’t about the latest fad or trendy new tools. Known for his practical, street-savvy style, Mike is a regular and highly-rated speaker at industry events, and consults on organizational learning design and technology at Change 4 Growth in Columbus, Ohio. Mike holds an MBA degree from Ohio University and a master’s degree in educational technology from San Diego State University.
