Presentation design blog

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

Most PowerPoint templates don't fail at launch. They fail three weeks later, when someone on the sales team adds their own font, a sales person pastes in an off-brand slide, and nobody's sure which version circulating around is current. That's the real problem with how most organizations approach templates. They treat them as a design deliverable rather than a system. Someone builds a polished master file, sends it to the team, and assumes the work is done. It isn't. The hard