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

Most teams don't have a presentation problem. They have a systems problem. When there's no shared standard for how decks get built, every employee figures it out on their own. Some copy last quarter's slides. Some start from scratch. And some pull from three different templates and hope it holds together. The result is a constant stream of off-brand decks, late-night cleanup, and revision cycles that eat into time better spent on strategy. According to Deloitte Digital, marke