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[Arpit]

i've been thinking about freelancing as a 'powerpoint' designer/consultant on a part-time basis after seeing a plethora of cheesy/gimmicky presentations over the years. i wanted to get opinions from the masses as to whether i've got the skills for this...

i've attached a presentation i created for my final project presentation for my accounting designation. how would you rate the quality of the slides, and would you recommend i give freelancing a shot? (ideally, i'd like to be creating presentations for business users because that's my professional/academic background)

thanks in advance

note - the animations look best in office 2010/2011...so if you're running the presentation on 2007, you can ignore the small inconsistencies.

Dropbox Presentation Link

[Arpit]

anyone?

[Ambroos]

I like it, everything is very consistent and looks good. I'd try to clean the design up a little though, there are just too many elements visible at certain times. Your skills with PowerPoint are obvious.

There is however one small remark I have. The content of this kind of presentations doesn't need designing, at least not if they're meant to be used internally. If this was to be external it contains too much information for a presentation and would be much better suited for a regular document. But I can't judge the content of this presentation good enough to figure out what it's meant to be used for. I can imagine that if you'd be working as a designer you wouldn't be worrying about the content. For more information about what I meant about the type of presentation you could have a look at this video: http://bit.ly/mTussO - Duarte has a lot more videos on their channel about presentations as it's all they do. Perhaps an interesting company to look into, maybe even professionally?

(I had to bit.ly the link, Neowin tries to embed any vimeo links, even between URL tags, but this video doesn't allow embedding)

[Arpit]

thanks! i'm checking out duarte's videos.. they are quite useful.

i wasn't a fan of some of the elements either but i was working with 4 other people and they insisted upon them. but still good feedback...i hope to use this as my portfolio or at least some aspects of it.