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Slide & document design courses

Learn how to create clear, effective presentation slides and documents that communicate your ideas with impact.

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Presentation and document design courses

Even if you’re not a designer, you can turn your messages into powerful, memorable visuals and create clear, effective slides and documents that amplify your ideas.

Slide Design

Build effective slides

Create attractive slide decks using presentation software, even if you're not a designer. Our training, tips, and tricks will help you work smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

On demand

Slide:ology®

Turn ideas into visuals

Use visual thinking and design principles to transform information into effective and memorable graphics for presentations.

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Slidedocs®

Create "skimmable" documents

Build helpful pre-reads and impactful leave-behinds with presentation software to support knowledge sharing and decision-making.

On demand

I could not have been more satisfied with the training. We learned countless concepts and skills that will improve every presentation slide I make from now onward. The training itself was engaging, fun, and insightful.

Abby E. Slide:ology® learner

This was inspirational, and taking the training as a team will help raise expectations and the visual quality of our communications and presentations!

Joel B. Slide:ology® learner

The highly curated, action-oriented training materials and approach have super-charged my slide creation skills. I can now take ANY slide and critically analyze it for what can be removed, what should be added, how to make it memorable and ensure it makes a strong point.

Leah R. UX Research Manager | Slide:ology® learner

The tools and tips I’ve learned in this course are 100% effective at helping me create meaningful slides. As a result, I am more productive and efficient with slide communications.

Nora N. Fortune 500 Product Manager | Slide:ology learner

Loved it! Good structure, digestible pieces of content, lots of tips and tricks. I especially loved the case studies and the wrap up at the end of each section.

Slidedocs® learner

You helped me discover lots of features I didn’t even now were there! ​I liked the pace, the practice file, and the high-level overview.

Slide Design learner

Thank you for such a ​good course, with excellent on-screen demonstrations, recaps, resources, and beautiful templates for this innovative business communication tool.

Slidedocs® learner

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