Intermediate Infographic Design using Microsoft PowerPoint

Visual communication standards are rising — and so are stakeholder expectations. In today’s information-rich environment, delivering clear, compelling insights through presentations is critical to driving decisions and alignment.

This 2-day Professional Business Infographics course equips professionals with the tools, frameworks, and strategies used by top designers to communicate complex ideas with clarity and impact.

Discover how design professionals draw from psychology, UI/UX, branding, copywriting to build an actionable framework which streamlines your workflow and enhances info and data clarity.

You’ll also learn to integrate AI tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Pair, and develop design-centric prompt-engineering know-how to fast-track your creative process — making it easier to generate polished, professional visuals.

By combining key design principles, branding strategies, PowerPoint tools, and web-based add-ons, you’ll walk away with a practical and proven design process to transform data, text, and concepts into effective business infographics for your next presentation.

Whether you work in the public sector, finance, or corporate services, this course will enhance how you craft presentations — and elevate how stakeholders perceive and engage with your content.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Leverage AI to automate design decisions, generate layout suggestions, refine visuals, complete infographics, and enhance data visualization while ensuring accuracy and credibility.
• Develop a content wireframe using AI tools to create, optimize, and structure narratives tailored to target audiences and desired outcomes.
• Analyze essential infographic types for corporate presentations, identifying their key characteristics and determining the most effective use cases for each.
• Identify core UI/UX principles used in professional infographic design and understand how they can be applied to simplify cognitive visual load on content-heavy slides.
• Apply key design principles — including alignment, balance, hierarchy, and contrast — to create visually compelling layouts while ensuring consistency in branding and messaging.
• Apply core UI/UX concepts — including user-centered design, information architecture, cognitive load management, and interaction flow — to simplify complex concepts and data insights for audiences.
• Visualize data effectively using charts, SmartArt, AI, and the FSL technique to create professional and easily understandable business infographics.
• Utilize CoPilot, PowerPoint tools, and the FSL technique to transform rigid corporate templates into flexible and creative slide layouts optimized for any type of content.
• Evaluate professional vs. amateur infographic design, identifying essential qualities of effective business infographics and applying best practices in data representation.
• Source and incorporate royalty-free graphics, icons, and images to enhance the visual appeal and engagement of infographics while safeguarding data integrity.
• Apply corporate branding guidelines to maintain design consistency and professionalism while ensuring adherence to organizational standards.
• Combine several infographics into a single slide using the FSL technique to manage cognitive visual load based on the target audience.
• Adapt infographic designs for various platforms — including presentations, reports, and social media — while optimizing content according to available slide space.
• Fine-tune and finalize designs to ensure a polished, professional, and audience-ready presentation while balancing immediate priorities with long-term communication goals.

This course is ideal for:

·     Marketing and communication professionals aiming to design visuals that enhance audience engagement across platforms

·     Analysts, managers and corporate employees seeking to simplify and present text and data masterfully to maximize stakeholder buy-in in corporate presentations

·     Entrepreneurs and SMEs looking to create polished, professional visual communication assets which drive reach and conversions

Pre-requisites

• Participants should bring a laptop with PowerPoint or Office 365 installed, along with a mouse for ease of design work.
• Having Microsoft Co-Pilot for Office is recommended for best results but is not mandatory.
• Participants using corporate laptops are encouraged to check organisational guidelines on the use of AI tools to ensure that they can use ChatGPT or Gemini for this session.
• A basic understanding of PowerPoint is recommended to get the most out of this course.
• Prior knowledge of data visualization concepts is helpful but not mandatory.

"Detailed and knowledgeable, the content is highly relevant to our work scope"

-Chan Zhiwei, SPS (2024)

“Ezekiel shares his subject matter knowledge very generously and even covered additional areas such as creating markers during the course. Passionate about sharing knowledge with the participants. I found the use of alignment tools in Powerpoint; useful keyboard shortcuts; resources for icons and images are the most useful section in this workshop.” – Lee Ying, Senior Manager – Financial Operations, Singapore Tourism Board

“Thank you Ezekiel for the 2 days of workshop! Ezekiel was very patient and attentive throughout and effectively guided us through the various steps to create all the infographics. He regularly checked in to ensure we are not lost too. This course has been very beneficial and I look forward to applying these steps in my work and improving accuracy and efficiency when creating infographics.” – Jamie Hwang, Executive, MSF

Personal Coaching by Industry Specialist: Mr Ezekiel Ho

Highly motivated and self-directed, Ezekiel believes in taking on challenges by the horns and overcoming self-imposed limits. He is a passionate advocate of continued Education and training, and effectively engages learners of all ages using creative facilitation methods.

A creative by heart, Ezekiel possesses close to 20 years of experience with Microsoft PowerPoint. He excels in designing creative presentations which showcase the strengths, brand heritage and unique selling points of businesses and professionals, and training speakers to channel their inner showman to create impactful presentation experiences for their audiences.

As the founder of MEISTERKLASSE, Ezekiel believes in helping professionals transform how they create and conduct presentations. To achieve this, he has participated in local and international conferences, as well as conducting workshops both locally and in Myanmar.