The online design approach

Designing a Prezi for online delivery needs a very different approach than designing for a face-to-face presentation. As viewers will be viewing your Prezi online, and in their own time, you should assume that their attention span will be very limited. Most people viewing content online only have about eight seconds before they become uninterested and move on to something else.

You should also assume that people might not know what Prezi is or how it works. This could send the technophobes in your office running straightaway.

In the rest of this chapter, we'll look at how to design your online Prezi with these things in mind.

The three Prezi design steps

The three design steps you learned in Chapter 1, Understanding the Prezi Frame of Mind still apply:

1. Plan your Prezi.

2. Get the flavor right.

3. Build in layers.

In step 1, you need to ensure that you don't get too carried away with your ideas and stick to a very simple approach. No one is going to click through a Prezi that...