Troy & Lori on The Presentation Podcast!
This episode is Troy and Lori Chollar. Microsoft Teams enables all PowerPoint files to be a collaboration file with dozens of people reviewing and editing the same file, at the same time. Troy and Lori of TLC Creative Services talk about how they have integrated Teams into the company presentation design workflow, how Teams files are key to their slide review process, and how Teams files are often a part of the backend setup for live meetings.
Sticky Notes for Card 22
Nick who was with TLC Creative took on the challenge of The Better Deck Deck, card #22 – Sticky Notes, with a fantastic presentation-ready slide full of colorful “sticky notes” vs. the before boring bullet list.
Christie’s Card #1
Christie followed up her card 39, Speaker Notes, by converting the same book page of text on “The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle” into a simple, quick to follow, Better Deck Deck card #1 – Basic Chunking.
Christie’s Card #39
Christie has been with TLC Creative for almost a decade (wow!) and is an amazingly talented designer. She drew card 39 – Speaker Notes. To paraphrase, the idea is to take a slide with too much text and create a simple visual to talk to. Christie embraced that with moving the paragraphs of bulleted text to the Speaker Notes and developing a beautiful slide in both imagery and typography for a presenter to tell the story of “The poison garden of Alnwick Castle” (it’s a real place!).
Jake’s Card #48
Jake drew The Better Deck Deck card 48 – Timeline. This is a great before (standard bullet list) to after (visual timeline of content)!
Karen’s Card #49
Karen is one of the newer designers on the TLC Creative team (okay, she has been with TLC Creative for a year) and she drew card 49 – Path. 
New Presentation Podcast Episode (Talking about Bulletless Design)!
New podcast episode releases today! Join Troy, Nolan and Sandy as they critique Better Deck Deck inspired slide designs!
Troy @ TLC
Lori’s Card #1
Starting things off is Lori Chollar, CEO of TLC Creative Services, who drew card #1 – Basic Chunking (I am admittedly biased, but this is a great slide design, and why Lori is always in demand for presentation design!).
Bulletless Design – An Internal Project
Nolan Haims created “The Better Deck Deck”, which is a great example of modern presentation communication. The product tagline is “52 Alternatives to Bullet Points” which is an obvious clue that The Better Deck Deck has 52 cards, each with a design example of ways to visually communicate.
As an internal design project among the TLC Creative Services team, I created a fun (at least I thought it was fun) project for everyone to create a series of slides using some of The Better Deck Deck’s slide layout options. Before sharing some of the (amazing) slide designs, let me share the design team instructions:
- Google “random number generator”. Set the max at 52. Generate.
- That is your first Better Deck Deck style to use.
- Go to https://www.mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator (okay to refresh until there is a stat you like)
- Create a boring/standard bullet point list slide based on the amazing fact.
- Create a bulletless design slide, using The Better Deck Deck card style that was randomly assigned to you in step #1.
Troy @ TLC