Presentation design blog

You've probably been there. Someone from the sales team sends over a deck for review and it looks nothing like your brand. Wrong blue. A font you don't recognize. A chart style that belongs in a 2014 annual report. You ask how it happened, and the answer is always the same: "I just used the template." That's the real problem with most PowerPoint templates. They look fine when they leave the design team. But the moment they hit 10, 20, or 50 different users, they start to drif

The problem isn't that your team can't design slides. It's that without a real system, every person who touches a deck makes a different set of decisions. Most organizations have something they call a branded PowerPoint template. It has the logo in the corner, the right colors applied, maybe a custom font. And then someone opens it under deadline pressure, can't find the right layout, grabs a slide from an old deck, tweaks the font size, and suddenly the presentation looks li