Current Design Trends and Their Use in Presentations.

Covid has made people go through a lot of changes, working from home being one of them. Though people have managed to work from home and are offering the desired efficiency, still, many presenters find it difficult to do a presentation online. This is because when a presentation used to be in a presentation haul, there was a great role of the presenter in its success. But since people are now having presentations online, there is not much that a presenter can do, but rely more on the presentation for its success. It implies that now we need to focus more on the presentation making, as the body language or dressing sense of the presenter is not going to work for the presentation. Now the presentations need to be self-sufficient and powerful enough to fulfil their aim. For that, the designers need to be conscious about what the audience requires, and what are trends are to be followed to make the presentation fruitful. Covid has made people go through a lot of changes, working from home being one of them. Though people have managed to work from home and are offering the desired efficiency, still, many presenters find it difficult to do a presentation online. This is because when a presentation used to be in a presentation haul, there was a great role of the presenter in its success. But since people are now having presentations online, there is not much that a presenter can do, but rely more on the presentation for its success. It implies that now we need to focus more on the presentation making, as the body language or dressing sense of the presenter is not going to work for the presentation. Now the presentations need to be self-sufficient and powerful enough to fulfil their aim. For that, the designers need to be conscious about what the audience requires, and what are trends are to be followed to make the presentation fruitful.

Though the trends have always changed for presentations every five years, since most of the presentations are now online, the changing trends have multiple additions to it too, as the presentations now need to be more reliable, attractive, understandable and powerful. Here we discuss some of the newest design trends of 2021, or we simply say the trends of ‘work from a home culture’ that are essential for the success of a presentation:

1. Minimalism: Minimalism has proven to be among great efforts for the success of a presentation in the past years, and the same trend is relevant in 2021, too. In fact, the very trend is here to stay for a very long time. Minimalism simply means that one must not choose complex content for the slides but keep things simple. Neat slides help the audience easily grasp the original content and understand the aim of the presentation, rather get tangled in the complex/unnecessary texts and animations. Minimalism, though, supports the use of less text, images, and other content, it also means that the text, images, videos or animations you use should be attractive/powerful and indicates the sole aim of the presentation.

2. Pastels, Gradients and Vibrant Color Theme: In the last two years, we have seen an increase in the liking for pastels as well as vibrant colours at the same time, among people of every age group. For presentations too, people have started to play more with the pastel as well as the vibrant colours as they are equally beautiful and eye-catching at the same time. Pastels, on one hand, make presentations look more elegant and soothing, whereas, on the other hand, the vibrant colours help to scream out the goal of the presentation. Talking about the third colour theme, the gradient, there is a similar fan following for the same. A proper transition between two colours through gradient changes the whole vibe of the slide and is capable of attracting the audience.

3. More Images, Less Text: This has been the prime slogan for presentation designs for the past few years, and in 2021 too, you only need to remember this slogan for the success of your presentation. Not only images, but animations, short videos, illustrations instead of long texts are the way to success for a presentation. Though the slogan is applicable for both online and offline presentations, since we are living in the work from home culture, having less text on the slides can reduce a lot of effort for the presenter. Visuals have always been easy to understand and capable to hold the audiences’ attention for a longer time, whereas reading the long text would be the last thing the audience would want to do. The trend of using images also includes text masking, use of custom font, picture cropped to shapes, use of flat Icons, illustrations, etc.

4. 3D Design, Doodles and More: Talking about the current design trends, 3D designs, doodles, and illustrations have become really popular in 2021. These trends are further divided into the fluid design (flowing shapes and lines), retro design (for nostalgic effect), use of geometrical shapes/flat icons, use of blur and grain, typography, etc. These are the new means for content representation, which needs creative minds and a lot of effort, but the result is always meaningful and attractive. Using these super attractive design methods one can create an outstanding presentation. Also, data visualization using graphs and charts have become popular among designers as well. Through data visualization, the data representation becomes more understandable for the audience. Last but not the least, the dark background (with Neon) is completely in these days, as the content on a dark background written in neon pops out beautifully and is quite eye-catching for the audience.

5. Nature Inspired Slides: As time is passing by, people are becoming more concerned about nature and preserving it. The lockdown inspired many people to have their own plants, and they even took care of their old ones themselves during that time. Hence, the themes that are nature-driven are quite popular these days. This new trend has inspired the designers to create slides that are earthy and reflects nature. You can easily find presentations that include earthy tones, like green and brown or slides with leaves and flowers, etc.

6. Use of GIFs/Short Videos/Zero gravity: Another new trend is to include GIFs, short videos as well as zero gravity illustrations in the presentations. These means of content are interesting, express more in less and are way easier to understand than texts and even images. We are not telling you to ditch the text and the images, but the use of one or two Gifs/short videos or zero gravity illustration can help you keep the audience engaged and leave a great impression on them.

So these are some of the 2021 trends that designers are following to make powerful presentations for their business. If you are also looking for trendy presentation design inspirations that can help you grab the attention of your audience, you can explore the huge presentation library of SharePresentation. SharePresentation is an online presentation submission platform with millions of presenters from across the globe upload and share presentation on the platform every day.