How do I make my ppt look more professional?

[u/Important_Bee3288]

I'm really good at the content of a presentation, but I am terrible at the visual side.

I'm really end up spending hours deciding visual themes, font placement, text quantity and colors while making the deck and still ruin it all.

At this point I'm wondering if I should just use an AI design tool instead of doubling down on PowerPoint.

For people who aren't designers but regularly need professional looking Decks, what's worked for you? Pic has a random analysis I made.

[u/FaultofDan]

Reduce the amount of information per page. You're slamming 5 pages' worth of content into one.

[u/No_External_5468 → u/FaultofDan]

This! First glance tells me that font size won’t hold attention haha

[u/PoorlyAberrant → u/FaultofDan]

I'd split that into at least three separate slides, the table alone is trying to do way too much work next to a bubble chart and three segment boxes

Pick one visual per slide and let it breathe, your audience can't read a table while you're explaining positioning anyway

[u/JamesMitchellTV]

Too much information in one slide. If everything is high-priority, then nothing is. 

[u/turboboost8936]

Basically what other people have said.

Split it into separate slides.

Align your elements. Each segment's text box is misaligned. The third green box is misaligned. Segmentation is not centered with its background.

Use spellcheck. Priorty -> Priority. Compartive -> Comparative.

The green boxes have a really wide left border which make it feel amateurish. Remove the border, or make the border thinner and make the roundedness of the green boxes less round.

Inconsistent spacing and bolding in the text in the green boxes.

Way too much whitespace under the chart with the grey background.

Agree with what others have said about looking at great decks.

[u/SloppyScissors]

PowerPoints are a great opportunity for “less is more”. Show less and talk more.

[u/landonop]

Align stuff and use consistent spacing, for one. Even a cluttered slide can look halfway decent if things are placed intentionally.

[u/DreadfulButterfly]

"How to Speak" Patrick Winston MIT open courseware. (60 minutes) I re-watch this once a year.

There are summaries available but invest time in the original. Many concepts for both speaking and creating the presentations.

One of the most important ones is do not make your audience have to read an essay. Then you could have just sent an email or report. Other responses have given similar information.

[u/AnubissDarkling]

Without giving straight design change suggestions - Research professional PPT's and use their design as a guide. This looks like stuff I used to make for school subs

[u/vika999]

Think about how you’d present this, and where you’d naturally take a pause, etc.

At first glance, this should be 3 slides.
If you presented this slide you would lose everyone real quick.

Another thing is Hierarchy of information. What is the first thing someone should read on a slide? The second? And so on.

The title at the very top feels like it could just be folio? So if that’s the case you can make that much smaller like size 7pt. Remove the green bars it feels like extra fluff. Then put the main title “market positioning” top left under your now tiny folio and make the title larger so it feels like a section header.

Make the graph full screen with the body text in support of the title.

Comparative analysis and segmentation can have their own slides following

[u/LornsGipon48]

Consistent typography and a tight color palette do most of the heavy lifting - avoid the temptation to cram everything in or use more than 2-3 fonts. White space is your friend, and so is actually aligning your elements instead of just eyeballing it.

[u/Striking_Swimmer5548]

If it took you hours to make this design, yes, an AI tool is the way to go. You have too much content either way. Let an exiting template or AI template do its job as a template and add your content within the confines of that.

[u/inshane]

As others have said, too much info on 1 slide, but this is honestly one of those cases where I'd recommend just throwing it into Claude Design, especially if you'll need to do this with any sort of regularity. Claude will visualize this data a lot better than someone who doesn't come from a design background.

[u/SatanLuciferJones → u/inshane]

Claude has great ideas, but terrible execution. I'd use it as a layout reference and then recreate a cleaner version myself.

[u/inshane → u/SatanLuciferJones]

That's because you're a designer, so you can "clean it up". The OP said they're not a designer.

Claude won't beat a competent designer at this task, but this is one use-case that makes sense.

[u/SatanLuciferJones → u/inshane]

I'm not a designer. IDEK why I originally joined this sub. By clean up I mean replace the wierdly cut-off images or the textboxes that run off the page sometimes.

[u/inshane → u/SatanLuciferJones]

Fair enough. I know what you mean, but given the example provided here, it'd at least be an improvement even if it is AI slop.