Your First Presentation with AI

Create your first slide presentation with AI — and watch how quickly an idea becomes visual slides. No design skills needed. Just a topic and a prompt.

Why Presentations Have Special Power

You know it: a good presentation isn't just information. It's storytelling. It combines words, images, colors, and pacing into a story that sticks in the listener's mind.

This used to be an art form that required specialized designers. You had a concept, sent it to a designer, waited a week, got three drafts that weren't right, sent feedback, waited another week. After two weeks you finally had slides.

Today? You open an AI tool like ChatGPT or Gamma.app, describe your topic in 3-4 sentences, and within two minutes you have 20 professionally designed slides. This isn't a speed improvement. This is a transformation of possibilities.

But here's the key question: What is a "good" AI presentation? What insights do you need to know what you want to see?

The Director and the Stage

Imagine you're a film director. You don't need to be a cameraman, lighting technician, or set designer yourself. That's not your role. Your role is: you know what the story should be. You give direction. You tell the team what you want to see.

With AI presentations, you do exactly that. The AI is your set design team. You are the director. You describe what the slides should show, which hierarchy matters, which mood fits. The AI builds the stage.

This is very different from before. Previously you had to tell the designer technical details: "Use Helvetica, 14pt, blue #0066FF." Now you say: "I want to convey clarity and trust — use cool colors and clear structures." The rest follows.

What You'll Do Today

Open one of these tools:

• ChatGPT + PowerPoint — ChatGPT generates content, you put it in PowerPoint. The classic, but more work.
• Gamma.app — The AI automatically generates slide layouts, structure, and design. Very fast.
• Beautiful.ai — Smart design template that adapts to your content.
• Canva AI — Canva with generative functions for quick, appealing designs.

Choose a topic. It could be:

1. Business Scenario: "Present a new product. Audience: investors. Tone: confidence, innovation."
2. Educational Scenario: "Explain a complex concept in 10 minutes. Audience: beginners. Tone: clarity, humor."
3. Creative Scenario: "Showcase your portfolio. Audience: potential clients. Tone: personal, visual."

Or take a topic from your life: a project you want to present, an idea you want to share.

What to Observe: Three Anchor Points

After the AI generates your presentation, watch it and focus on three questions:

1. Visual Hierarchy

Which information is in focus? Are the key points prominent, with explanations subordinate? Or does it look like a blur where everything seems equally important?

A good presentation makes you immediately understand: "That's the main message, and those are the details." A bad presentation leaves you guessing.

2. Visual Flow

Do the slides take you along? Does each next slide make sense in sequence? Or does the AI jump between completely unrelated designs?

Good AI presentations have visual consistency. Colors, fonts, layouts fit together like parts of a whole. Bad AI presentations feel like a randomly assembled image gallery.

3. Emotional Resonance

Does the presentation speak to your gut feeling? If you imagine presenting this in front of an audience — would you feel comfortable with it? Or does it feel generic, too polished, too "AI"?

This is subtle. But it's the difference between "works" and "feels authentic."

A Thought to Take Away

When you see an AI presentation for the first time, you'll be surprised how "finished" it looks. It's photography-quality design, rendered in two minutes. And you might think: "That's perfect — why would I change anything?"

The difference between a "good" and a "great" presentation is that you know where the AI gets weak. A great presentation is one you've consciously directed. The AI provided the tools. You directed.

That's your new role: Not the designer. The director.