I used to dread building slide decks. The blank canvas, the formatting fiddling, the hours lost to making one slide look halfway decent. So when I came across a post from an AI professional who now creates all of their slide decks with Claude, I stopped scrolling immediately.
The creator made a point that stuck with me: anyone can ask AI for a full deck and get something back in seconds. But getting a deck you’re actually proud of? That takes a bit more intention. The expert breaks it down into three things you need to nail, and honestly, it’s the clearest framework I’ve seen on this.
Here’s what the original poster shared, step by step.
Step 1: Build your design system
This is the piece that separates your slides from the sea of generic AI decks flooding the internet. The author calls the design system the key to differentiation, and I think that’s spot on.
Your design system isn’t just colors and fonts. According to this contributor, it includes:
- Brand guidelines that keep everything consistent
- Visual elements that reflect your personal taste
- Writing styles that sound like you, not a robot
The rationale is simple. When AI knows your design rules upfront, every slide it generates already feels on-brand. You stop fixing defaults and start refining something that’s already close. The expert points out you can build this system using Claude Code or Claude Design, so it lives in one place and gets reused every time.
Step 2: Get your context right
This is the line that I keep coming back to. The original poster says context is far more important than prompting. Not a clever prompt. Context.
What does that mean in practice? The creator lays out three moves:
- Give the AI the right content to work from
- Feed it the rules it needs to follow
- Add your own unique human insights on top
The reason this matters so much: context is what kills the dreaded “default output.” When you hand AI thin information, it fills the gaps with generic filler. When you load it with real content, clear rules, and your personal perspective, the result actually sounds like it came from you. I was nodding the whole way through this part.
Step 3: Use skills as your superpower
The third piece is what this industry pro calls your superpower for elevating quality. Skills are reusable instructions that boost the final output, save tokens, and raise your success rate.
Here’s the part I found genuinely exciting. The author says you can build your own collection of agent skills that apply across platforms. So whether you’re working in Claude Chat, Code, Cowork, or Design, the same skills carry over. Build once, use everywhere.
The rationale: instead of re-explaining how you like things done every single time, you encode it once. Your skills become a personal toolkit that gets sharper the more you add to it.
Why this approach works
Get all three right, the creator says, and you essentially free your mind to focus on discovery, creativity, and the human-centric tasks that actually matter.
That’s the real payoff here. This isn’t about replacing your judgment. It’s about offloading the repetitive grind so your energy goes where it counts. The mind behind this post framed it beautifully: it’s an example of letting AI do the laundry while we focus on delivering better work.
I love that framing. The boring, repeatable stuff gets handled. The creative, strategic, distinctly human stuff stays with you.
How to start applying this today
If you want to try the creator’s method, here’s a practical way in:
- Write down your brand basics first: two or three colors, your go-to fonts, and a quick note on your writing tone. That’s your starter design system.
- Before asking for a deck, gather the actual content and any rules you want followed, then add one or two personal insights only you would know.
- Notice the instructions you repeat often, and turn the most common one into a reusable skill you can call again and again.
Start small with one deck. You’ll feel the difference between a generic AI output and something that’s genuinely yours.
What struck me most about this post is how it reframes the whole AI-for-work conversation. The savvy professional behind it isn’t selling magic. They’re showing that the quality comes from the setup: your design system, your context, and your skills. The AI is just the engine.
If you create presentations regularly, this three-part approach is worth bookmarking. Check out the full LinkedIn post for the original creator’s complete breakdown and the extra details behind each step.