You’ve heard it before: PowerPoint is a time suck. Design time is the most common pain point of the presentation design process. When you lack professional design skills (as most of us do), knowing how to structure your presentation, and where to take your slide design can be intimidating. Staring at a blank slide with your creative wheels spinning as you try to make design decisions is where you lose productivity. That decision paralysis is also known as blank slide syndrome.
PowerPoint alternatives— like Beautiful.ai— work to solve the inefficiencies of the presentation design process. In fact, most Beautiful.ai users save more than 40% of time by using Beautiful.ai instead of traditional software like PowerPoint. Our AI presentation maker leverages smart technology across every phase of the design process from templates to the cloud to help you go from idea to impact faster.
But let’s put our money where our mouth is. Here are 6 ways you can actually save time in Beautiful.ai.
Start with a Smart Slide template
Never stare at a blank slide again. Our smart slide templates give you a starting point so you're not staring at a blank presentation wondering how to turn your data into a story. It takes away the guessing, and time-consuming decision making, so you can focus on what matters. Each Smart Slide is totally customizable, and has the principles of good design baked in, so all you have to do is drop in your content to tailor it to your story.
Tag-team with our smart technology
The most tedious part of presentations is tinkering with text boxes, aligning elements, and resizing images to maintain a professional design. The technology baked into Smart Slides takes away some of those pain points that block people during the presentation process. With Smart Slides, there are design guardrails in place to help guide you through each step of your slide. As you add in your content, your slide will automatically adapt by resizing font, text boxes, and trays to preserve design integrity. It’s almost impossible to make an ugly slide, regardless of your skills.
Create a theme for one-click consistency
Having to manually choose fonts and colors for each individual slide is an efficiency killer. Instead, a preset theme allows you to set it and forget it. Choose your theme for the presentation at the beginning and it will automatically be applied to every new slide you create from there on out. This means you aren’t adjusting the typography, font size, colors, or backgrounds on every single slide— but they’re still consistent throughout the entire presentation. This keeps the deck cohesive, and on brand, in a few simple clicks.
Eliminate versioning issues in the cloud
Think about the last PowerPoint you created for your boss. To get sign-off, you would have to export the PPT file, send it as an email attachment and wait for a response. In traditional presentation software, you’re at the mercy of lengthy email chains and various versions of the same deck. When you work in the cloud, versioning issues won't hold you back. You can get feedback and sign-off in real-time, and any updates are automatically pushed live to all versions of the deck. This removes a major bottleneck for individual contributors who want to collaborate on a deck with their colleagues, or need final approvals (fast) from upper management.
Do more, together
There’s a reason people say teamwork makes the dream work. When you’re working together on a presentation you can cover more ground (slides) in less time. In Beautiful.ai, teams can divide and conquer with collaboration features. Tools like slide status, comments and notifications, and tagging unlock a more seamless way to create together, from anywhere. Assign certain slides to your colleagues, or give design feedback on client-facing decks, all under the same roof.
Collaborate with our AI assistant
It’s nearly 2025, which means professionals are leveraging artificial intelligence to help them work smarter. Presentation design is no different. Beautiful.ai’s AI assistant can help streamline the presentation process by acting as your collaborative partner. Ask our AI to create you a slide or deck from a single prompt, generate new or rewrite text, compile speaker notes based on the information on your slide, or make custom graphics or images unique to your story. While the AI likely won’t get you all the way to the finish line, the content generation expedites your brainstorming by giving you a working draft to iterate on in seconds.
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