Prezi is an innovative, web-based presentation tool based on an infinite canvas. This canvas and its zooming features are the powers of Prezi. Zooming out provides an overview and, zooming in provides details. You can look at a Prezi presentation as a large mind map. Put text, images, and videos on the canvas and structure your content by frames. Make the important points big and make the details smaller in size. A path in the prezi sets the storyline of the presentation.
Adam Somlai-Fischer invented Prezi in 2007. Adam is originally a media artist and architect, and he felt that the traditional form of slides limited him when he was shaping and drawing up his ideas. He made his first zooming interface in 2001. Together with Peter Halacsy, he started working on an application in 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. They called this tool ZuiPrezi. “Zui” for the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) and Prezi as it is the Hungarian diminutive for presentation. However, very soon they called it Prezi. Peter Arvai joined the team as CEO, and the new presentation tool Prezi was officially launched on April 5, 2009.
This book presents a series of fully realized Prezi projects. It will teach you how to build great prezis. The book builds up on complexity and difficulty. You will not only learn tips and tricks, but also the techniques and workflow used. The ten projects in this book are completely different from each other, and they will give you inspiration and ideas for your own projects. Take a look at www.prezihotshot.com for a sneak preview of the projects.
We hope that you enjoy working on your Prezi projects and may this book inspire you to get the most out of it!
Project 1, The Fastest Way to Go from an Idea to a Prezi, teaches you how to create a prezi by using brainstorming techniques. You will learn how to brainstorm in Prezi, how to go from a brainstorm to a mind map, and how to structure your content.
Project 2, Present Yourself with a Prezumé, shows you how to present yourself online with a more creative curriculum vitae. A résumé in Prezi is a prezumé!
Project 3, I Want to Use Prezi for My Lessons, teaches how you can use Prezi to create learning materials. In this project, we will create a prezi about “The world of bees.”
Project 4, Designing a Serious Corporate Presentation, helps you to create better business presentations in Prezi by using a seven-step workflow.
Project 5, Presenting in the PechaKucha Style, teaches you how to use a whole new way of presenting. You will learn how to build a prezi in PechaKucha style.
Project 6, Presenting Boring Stuff in a Better Way, teaches you how to present data in a much better way. The challenge is to make data visually more attractive.
Project 7, I Really Like Those Hand-drawn Prezis, shows you it’s not difficult to make your own drawings to tell your story in Prezi.
Project 8, Let’s Animate Your Prezi, teaches you how to create stunning Flash animations and use them in Prezi. You’ll create a Prezi machine step by step.
Project 9, More Interactivity with the Prezi Player API, teaches you how to create a menu on a website to navigate through your embedded prezi. You’ll be using the Prezi Player API.
Project 10, Creating an Award-winning Prezi, shows you how the winning prezi IDENTITY of the TED + Prezi Contest, Ideas Matter, was created.