iA Presenter puts joy back into telling a story. Here’s how.
Most presentation apps expect us to pour our souls into designing slides. It’s a fiddlefest. Instead of letting you think about what to say and how to say it, it nags. Position this. Resize that. Shrink this. Poke that.
In practice, picking fonts, colors and shapes is less fun than it seems. If you’re not a designer, you shouldn’t have to worry about it. We all have more fun when we focus on what we are good at.
A New Guide About Letting Go
The new How To Guide for iA Presenter is 23 minutes long, which seems short for a set of seven tutorials. It is short, because it was made to teach you one thing: A good presentation isn’t about the slides, but about the story you tell. Let go of the rest.
The How To Guide helps you let go of worrying about layouts. You will let go of wondering if your slides will look good online, or on a certain display. Most of all, you will let go of being afraid:
“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” —Yoda, Revenge of the Sith
What Yoda means is that iA Presenter isn’t about sweating over slides. It focuses on what really matters: Your voice, your expert knowledge, your story. When you learn to let go of the rest, you’ll be in full control and your audience will actually listen to you.
iA on YouTube
There’s a lot more to say on the topic of creating great presentations, so be sure to check out our other resources—both in our Support section, and on iA’s official YouTube channel.
And in case you missed it, we created a How To Guide about iA Writer too.
As for the rest, just let it go.
