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presentation-creator

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Creates bold, minimal, dark-first presentations with structured narrative arcs, punchy slide copy, high-contrast visual design, and conversational speaker notes. Adapts for live talks or async investor pitch decks. Use when creating a presentation, structuring a deck, writing slides, asking "outline a presentation about...", "write slides for...", "design a deck for...", or building a pitch deck for investors.

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# Presentation Creator

Bold, minimal, dark-first presentations designed for live presenting.

## Workflow

Copy and track this checklist:

```text
Presentation progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Outline structure and narrative arc (outline-structure.md)
- [ ] Step 2: Write bold, minimal slide copy (writing-slides.md)
- [ ] Step 3: Design visual layout and composition (visual-design.md)
- [ ] Step 4: Add speaker notes for delivery (speaker-notes.md)
```

1. **Outline** the structure and narrative arc → [outline-structure.md](outline-structure.md)
2. **Write** bold, minimal slide copy → [writing-slides.md](writing-slides.md)
3. **Design** the visual layout and composition → [visual-design.md](visual-design.md)
4. **Add speaker notes** for natural delivery → [speaker-notes.md](speaker-notes.md)

**For investor pitch decks** (async, standalone): follow [pitch-decks.md](pitch-decks.md) instead — denser copy, 10-slide framework, optimized for reading without a presenter.

## Core principles

- **Dark-first, high contrast** — black/zinc-900 backgrounds, white text, colored accents
- **One message per slide** — if it takes more than 5 seconds to read, cut it
- **Headlines do the work** — bold statements, not explanations:
  ```
  Before: "An Overview of Our Q3 Performance Metrics and Results"
  After:  "Q3: Revenue Up 40%. Here's How."
  ```
- **Section colors create rhythm** — each major section gets its own accent color
- **Notes guide, not script** — scannable prompts for riffing, not paragraphs to read

## Context adjustments

- **Internal (team/company)**: assume shared context, be direct, reference history
- **External (conference/client)**: more setup, clearer transitions, define terms
- **Recorded/async**: tighter copy, stronger signposting, notes clarify what slides don't

## Anti-patterns

- Putting paragraphs on slides — if it takes more than 5 seconds to read, cut it.
- Using more than 3 accent colors across the deck — creates visual noise instead of rhythm.
- Writing speaker notes as a full script — notes should be scannable prompts for riffing, not paragraphs to memorize.
- Starting without understanding the audience context — internal, external, and async decks need fundamentally different approaches.
- Making every slide the same layout — uniform layouts kill rhythm. Alternate between headline-only, image+text, and data slides.
- Skipping the outline step — jumping straight to slides produces a deck without a narrative arc.
Files: 6
Size: 19.9 KB
Complexity: 32/100
Category: Design

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