Note #7 to Sookie: AI Can Make Stunning Presentations!
Dear Sookie,
I am terrible at design, but I found that AI can make presentation slides magically shine!
People have always told me that I am a great public speaker, but no one has ever complimented me on my slide decks. In fact, the biggest problem with my slide decks was that I would design them as rough visual aids rather than putting much detail on them with regards to words.
I forget who taught me this, but someone long ago told me that slides shouldn’t be full of content. Well, what I’ve realized is that nowadays people want to see slides after presentations and send them around to others.
Thus, the slides need to be able to speak for themselves, even if I’m not around. This posed a problem for me since I’ve never been good at slide deck design, let alone design in general.
Enter gamma.app.
I am not sponsored by them, nor do they know that I am promoting them. I just used their paid version to see if it could create beautiful slides for me. I just entered in plain text into powerpoint slides and imported them into gamma.app.
I don’t want to share my whole slide deck, but I will show you one of the slides that I made, here.
Yeah. The AI app just made that from five paragraphs that I had pulled from this wonderful newsletter article (with reference in the slide).
Some thoughts regarding gamma.app:
Always use the paid version of AI tools, if you can. There’s always less likelihood that they will use your data to train their AI models if you are using the paid version. With presentation slides, I am less concerned, since most people are not putting extremely confidential and/or private data onto slide decks.
The content of the slide I posted is really worth thinking about. You don’t run a business, so you might be a little less interested in it. I will speak to Ken about this in greater length, but I still believe that you and everyone else in the world really needs to consider the “no moat” phenomenon.
I feel similar tensions with regards to AI as everyone else. Where do we go from here? What happens to professional designers? I don’t have those answers. All I know is that you/we have to push ahead. I will do my best to help you future-proof yourself as AI accelerates.
Sincerely,
Dr. Joe, Your AI Doctor
These notes are for 'Ken' and 'Sookie,' the American names my young Korean immigrant parents adopted while navigating profound change as they moved to the US in the 1970’s. In the notes within this blog, I imagine them as young adults again, but now encountering change and uncertainty from today's AI shifts – Sookie with potential job uncertainty, Ken with business disruption.
Drawing inspiration from their historical resilience as young immigrants facing the unknown, I'm compelled to write with empathy and offer truly helpful thoughts for anyone navigating AI's rapid evolution. Remember, this isn't financial or direct strategic advice, but a perspective to encourage your own thoughtful consideration. I do not identify myself as their son in these notes, but in reality, I write with a son’s heart.
My notes to Sookie will always be free, as I understand employees often navigate workplace changes with fewer resources and support systems. My notes to Ken will be offered at an accessible price point designed to be a worthwhile investment for businesses of any size looking to adapt to AI changes.