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Apple keynote: how to make an interactive presentation..

Although we have all heard of Powerpoint as a powerful tool for presentations, I believe that after using the Apple keynote, I have also learned that it can be used to create impressive and engaging presentations.

In this story I’m going to show you how we can create and Deliver a Killer Keynote Presentation using Keynote

Set it up correctly :

Start Keynote, then choose a Theme . Choosing an appropriate theme can save you time and effort in redefining styles, backgrounds, and image formatting.

Planning your content :

The Slide is the core component of Keynote, so it’s best to view your interactive piece as a series of small, slide-sized chunks. If you want to tell an interactive narrative, you’ll want to write it one slide at a time in words, images, video, or short animations.

Create your content :

The first page will be a title slide , so write a good welcome text ,Also use simplify charts and graphs to present your data,Always try to put points in further interactive way so that viewer can understand and grasp the slides veritably and fluently. it'll also helps to make the bystander always stick with the slide.

Short animations :

• On the slide, click to select the object you want to animate.
• In the Animate sidebar, click the Animate tab.
• Click Add an Effect, then select an animation.
• To set animation options such as the duration and direction of the animation, use the controls that appear.(Start Transition,Delay)

A Good Animation can help make a PowerPoint presentation more dynamic, and help make information more memorable. The most common types of animation effects include entrances and exits. You can also add sound to increase the intensity of your animation effects.

Presentation experts recommend using animations and sound effects sparingly. Animation can be useful in making a presentation more dynamic, and help to emphasize points, but too much animation can be distracting. Do not let animation and sound take the focus away from what you are saying.

Present it! :

Go ahead — press Play and test out your presentation. Everything should work as you’d expect, and you can press Escape to exit. Save your Presentation to iCloud, then open it on your iPad, and everything will work just the same there.

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Posted on November 16, 2023

You have some great tips. I also appreciate the paragraph about using sounds and animations sparingly. It never fails when I introduce Keynote to students, that their first presentation has sounds and animations for everything. Thank you for sharing, Keynote is one of my favorite apps.

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Posted on November 22, 2023

There's nothing like a great, well-thought-out Keynote. Thanks for sharing your step-by-step guide.

Posted on November 30, 2023

Another great tips would be to use purposeful animation. If your an explaining how gravity work, using the anvil composition to have an object (or even the word GRAVITY) fall for the sky and land in a smoke dust deliver a message out the topic. And you are right to use is sparingly, use it to gain focus, to surprise you listener.

Great topic and explanation!

Posted on December 01, 2023

Hi Satyajit

Who doesn't love keynote? Thank you for the reminders on creating a presentation. You will have to share one you have created!

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How to use Keynote to make interactive diagrams

By Charlie Sorrel • 11:00 am, April 2, 2019

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Sometimes, when I want to wire up a few guitar pedals and connect them to my iPad, maybe via a mixer or audio interface, I make a diagram before I plug everything in. But the trouble with drawing a wiring diagram on the iPad is just the same as drawing it on paper: If you want to move a component, or change the routing, you have to erase the wires and redraw them.

There are apps made for this. Omnigraffle is one, and it’s great. But it also costs $60, which is too much just for a few diagrams.

Then I thought, what about using Keynote, Apple’s free presentations app? Doesn’t it do diagrams? It does, and it’s quite good.

Using Keynote for drawing diagrams

Apple’s free Keynote app is designed to make presentation slides, but what is a diagram if not a single slide?

There are two things that make Keynote useful for diagramming: stencils and connections.

Keynote stencils

Stencils, or objects, are the vector graphics that stock much of the app. You can add third-party vector graphics, but that’s beyond the scope of this article. It’s also a monstrous distraction. For my use, the built-in shapes are more than good enough.

Keynote connections

The other part that makes this work is connections. Connections are the lines that you draw to hook up objects. They’re found in the Basics panel of the Keynote object browser. You just tap one, or drag it onto the canvas, to add it.

Then, you grab one end of a connection, and drop it onto an object. It connects, not surprisingly, and will stay connected until you disconnect it. That means you can move the object itself, and any connected lines will be pulled along with it.

You can also customize the appearance of the connections, just like any other element in a Keynote slide. You can use thick or thin dotted lines, arrows, faux pencil strokes — it’s all there.

Create separate versions of your Keynote diagram

One final tip. If you want to create several versions of your Keynote diagram, just tap on the slide in the thumbnail view on the left, and tap Copy . Then tap in the blank space under the thumbnail, and tap Paste . You now have a second copy you can work on.

I’m pretty happy using this method to create interactive diagrams. Keynote is free, and easy to use. It also syncs (via iCloud) between iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC. Plus, it is likely to be around for a long time to come.

The only problem is that the app is a pretty hefty download. It weighs in at more than 700MB on iOS, which is a lot if all you want to do is make a few diagrams.

Still, it’s worth giving Keynote a try if you want to make dynamic diagrams for whatever reason. It’s free, and you can always delete the app if it’s not for you. Check it out.

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• What’s new in Keynote 14.0
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• Use object styles
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• Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
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Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive in Keynote on iPad

You can enable objects to act as links that viewers tap to jump from one slide to another. This is especially useful when you want to create an interactive presentation that lets viewers choose their own path through the slideshow.

Objects that can be turned into links include shapes, lines, images, image galleries, drawings, text boxes, equations, groups of objects, and animated drawings.

Add a link to an object to let viewers navigate to another slide

Choose one of the slide options or tap Link to Slide and specify the number of the slide you want the link to lead to.

If you don’t need to verify the link, tap the slide to close the controls.

Linked text is underlined, and a link button (a curved arrow) appears in the lower-right corner of a linked object. (The link button isn’t visible when you play your presentation.)

Change a link’s destination

Tap the link button next to the object, tap Link Settings, then select a different destination.

To remove the link, tap Remove.

Set a presentation to play interactively

To use linked objects to navigate between slides, you must set your slideshow to play as a Normal or Links Only presentation type. You can also set your presentation to play immediately after it’s opened, continuously on a loop, or from the beginning if left idle.

Select a presentation type:

Normal: The presentation changes slides or starts animations when the viewer taps or swipes the screen, or taps a link on the slide. This is useful if you want to present slides sequentially.

Links Only: The presentation changes slides or starts animations only when the viewer taps a link on the slide. This is useful if you want to present an interactive slideshow in a kiosk setting, or if you want to present slides in nonsequential order.

Tip: In a Links Only presentation, make sure each slide contains a link (to prevent dead-end slides).

Set any of the playback options:

Loop Slideshow: Turn on to have the presentation return to the first slide at the end of the slideshow.

Restart Show if Idle: Turn on, then drag the slider to set the amount of idle time with no viewer interaction before the presentation returns to the first slide.

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How to Design UI Mockups, Wireframes and Interactive App Prototypes With Apple Keynote In 30 Minutes

Why Keynote?

Apple Keynote is one of the simplest and most powerful tools out there. But it’s not just a presentation tool, it’s also a great tool for creating mockups, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. You can quickly layout shapes on slides to create interface screens, add links to create interactivity between screens, and use slide transitions to animate the interface. You can then export your prototype to your iOS/Android device to interact with it, demo it to others, and get feedback as if it were a real working app.

Keynote is the fastest and cheapest way to prototype your app ideas, and Keynotopia makes it 10x faster and your prototypes will look 10x better!

Here is how you create an app prototype with Keynote in under 30 minutes.

Step 1: Plan It

Create a diagram with each interface screen as a state, and create links to specify how users will transition between them.

For instance, let’s say we’re creating an app that enables multiple friends to find a place to eat on a Friday night that is close enough to all of them.

Here’s what the user flow diagram looks like for this application:

Step 2: Sketch It

Grab a marker and a stack of papers (or your favorite tablet), and sketch a high level layout for each screen in your user flow diagram.

Step 3: Design It

Open the .Key file that comes with your Keynotopia Templates side by side with a blank new presentation.

Start by creating a slide for each screen (each state in the diagram) by copying interface elements from the keynotopia template and pasting them onto your presentation. To edit the label of an interface element, simply double click it and start typing.

You can also modify element sizes, colors, and effects using the shape inspector in Keynote.

After putting together the main screens, you can move them to master slides so that you can reuse them in other screens without doing much copy/paste, and update multiple screens with a single change.

Step 4: Add Hyperlinks

To make an interface element clickable, select it, then open the hyperlink tab in the inspector, and specify the target slide.

I recommend using slide numbers, instead of next/previous slides, since Keynote is smart enough to update these numbers if you end up inserting a slide in the middle later on.

Make sure you test the interactivity every once in a while to make sure the app behaves as you’d expect it to.

You can add some slide transitions or magic moves to create interface animations. But remember not to get too distracted by these features.

Before testing your final presentation, make sure that clicking anywhere on the slide doesn’t cause it to advance to the next one. To do this, select “Hyperlinks only” in the presentation settings in the inspector.

Step 5: Export It & Test It

If you’ll be testing your prototype on an iOS device, save your prototype to iCloud, DropBox, or your favorite file sharing service, and open it in Keynote on iOS, then hit the play button and test it on the device. Hyperlinks and animations will make it feel like a real working app. If you’re testing it on an Android device, export your prototype as PDF and open it in your favorite PDF reader on the device.

Here is what the final prototype looks like

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