Presentation design blog

Any company can invest and get a brand new custom presentation template built, that's the easy part. (And if you're still in that phase of building your template, our guide on creating professional PowerPoint templates can give you so many tips and tricks.) If you're new to working with presentation templates, start with our PowerPoint Templates 101 guide. It covers the fundamentals of building and using branded templates, from slide masters and layouts to maintaining visual

You've probably been here before: someone from the sales team sends over a deck for review and it looks nothing like your set 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." And that's the real problem with most PowerPoint templates. Sure, they look great when they leave the design team, but then they hit the hands of 10, 20, or 50 differe

Most organizations have what they believe is a branded and locked down PowerPoint template that everyone uses correctly every time for every presentation. It has the logo in the corner, the right colors applied, and maybe even a custom font. But as soon as there's one question about how to use that template, it can all suddenly break down and no longer be the tool it should be. That's not a people using the template problem. It's about the infrastructure of the template itsel