Make a slide deck in Gamma in twenty minutes

How to do it

1. 1

   Write eight lines before you open Gamma

   Each line is one slide. After the first slide, each slide gets one point.

   Prompt

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   Make an internal morning-meeting deck of 8 slides or fewer, in English. The audience is coworkers who aren't comfortable with data. Style: white background, minimal decoration, one point per slide. No illustrations unrelated to the content. Outline: 1. Title: Why support emails went up this week 2. Conclusion first: email volume is up 40%, mainly because the new return instructions are confusing, not because the product is broken 3. Numbers: 120 emails last week, 168 this week; 61 of them ask how to return something 4. Causes ruled out: no outages, no major shipping delays 5. Two customer quotes: "I clicked return and ended up on the home page" and "I can't tell who pays shipping" 6. Recommendation: this week, change the returns page so shipping cost is visible up front 7. What I need approved: fit this into the current redesign, not a new project 8. Likely question: did we push ads too hard? Answer: no new ads ran this week
2. 2

   After it generates, fix only three slides

   Don't change fonts slide by slide. Check only: is the title in plain language, does the numbers slide have 120, 168 and 61 right, and does the last slide clearly say what you need them to agree to.

3. 3

   Present it out loud once; cut slides if you go past eight minutes

   Use presenter mode and talk it through. If you stall on a slide, it has two points.

4. 4

   Before exporting, check nothing gets cut off on the projector

   Gamma's default ratio is usually fine, but use present mode to check the ask on the last slide. If that sentence spills onto another slide, people will think you're not done.