Some of the primary elements researchers will use in their presentations to show estimates and findings are graphs, charts, and other visualizations. These books are a gateway to creating better, more effective visualizations.

This lists contains the best data visualization blogs. At these sites, you will find tools, tutorials, tips, templates, and more to help you develop and create better data visualizations.

Contrary to what most people actually mean, most of us do not tell stories when we visualize data. These books can help you better understand how to define storytelling and apply it to communicating data.

Contrary to what most people actually mean, most of us do not tell stories when we visualize data. These books can help you better understand how to define storytelling and apply it to communicating data.

Giving a presentation is about communication and how your audience perceives and processes that information. This list contains some of my favorite books on how our brains work and how to get people to embrace and utilize your ideas.

While these are certainly not all of the books on presentation design and skill, these are some of my favorites and offer you different perspectives and advice on creating better presentations.

This list contains the best blogs dedicated to presentation skills and design. You will find tutorials, tips, templates, and more resources to help you deliver a better presentation.

Even if you are not a PowerPoint user, creating presentations that use more images, less text, and less clutter should be applied regardless of the tool you use. Ultimately, it’s not the tool that makes a great presentation, it’s the user.

Be faster and more efficient at PowerPoint. Learn keyboard shortcuts, download templates, and improve your designs by utilizing the resources listed below.

Find the top sites to post and share your presentations. You can get design inspiration, presentation design techniques, and other technical tips for making your presentations as effective and beautiful as possible.

Need some design inspiration for your work? This list includes a variety of websites to help get your creative juices flowing. And if you’re looking to hire a professional graphic designer, you’ll find some amazing talent here.

“Anyone looking at a printed message will be influenced, within a split second of making eye contact, by everything on the page… In other words, an overall impression is created in our minds before we even read the first word” (Erik Speikermann and E. M. Ginger). Before you begin putting text on your slides, take some time to think about how the text will look.

As with photographs, icons can be used to make you and your slides more engaging and memorable. Many of these links offer free, simple icons you can use in your presentations.

The way our eyes and brains work together allows us to better grasp and retain information through pictures rather than just through words. Use this list of photo sites—many of which offer large, high-quality photos for free—to deliver better presentations.

“Color used well can enhance and clarify a presentation. Color used poorly will obscure, muddle, and confuse” (Maureen Stone). Use color carefully to create engaging slides that your audience will want to look at and will help them better understand your content.

Help you and your teams collaborate on new ideas from ideation and synthesis to gathering feedback. These tools can be especially useful in our new world of remote work and remote collaboration.