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iA Presenter: A presenting app for people who don’t just want to get through presenting, but prefer to speak to an audience, move them, and create understanding. When creating presentations, Presenter encourages you to focus on what we want to say. Design and imagery are used not to distract but to attract attention to the story you’re telling. Visuals illustrate what you mean, when words cannot convey the message as well as an image or video. In the creation process, Presenter frees you from the burden of pretending to be a 90s graphic designer, eliminates procrastination and dramatically reduces the time you need to create a presentation. Presenter frees our audience from the prison of pretended attention. See also: Wall of text
Presenting is an ancient art, studied and refined over centuries, and captured in the Five Canons of Rhetoric.
Notes on how to cultivate your speaking voice, by Grenville Kleiser.
Many of us experience a paralyzing dread of speaking in front of an audience, and will do just about anything to avoid it. But practice makes perfect.
Should you use gestures while you’re presenting? What about facial expressions? Find out here.
Choose visuals as carefully as words to quickly grab attention, explain complex ideas, and leave a lasting impact.
Selected extracts from Grenville Kleiser's Successful Methods of Public Speaking (1920).
Jam-packed update preceding iA Presenter's first anniversary, primarily centered around image handling.
An extract from Clarence Stratton’s Public Speaking (1920) that explains why a strong conclusion is critical for your presentation.
2023 marked a significant chapter for iA Inc. The iA family grew from a single app to three distinct products: iA Writer, iA Presenter, and iA Notebook.
How to tell your story without boring your audience to death.
Presentation apps haven’t fundamentally changed at all since the early 80s. In all that time they’ve never really solved the human side of the problem. As designers, we feel compelled to create a new solution, one with a slightly different emphasis. By changing our focus, we change the likely outcome. To avoid reinventing the wheel, it is useful to look back before moving forward.