Your sales team is actively destroying your brand identity. Every time they stretch a logo or pas...Your sales team is actively destroying your brand identity. Every time they stretch a logo or pas...
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Your sales team is actively destroying your brand identity. Every time they stretch a logo or paste a chaotic chart into a pitch deck, your brand equity drops. But you cannot blame them. You are forcing your team to use a delivery tool as design software. PowerPoint was built to project slides on a wall. It lacks the auto-layout constraints and component libraries required for strict brand control. Designing master corporate decks directly in PowerPoint is a decade out of date. When you build templates in PowerPoint, the system is highly fragile. One wrong click by a busy account executive breaks the entire visual structure. The fix is simple. You must separate design from delivery. Figma is your design sandbox 📐. The alignment mechanics are flawless. You build the visual system twice as fast. PowerPoint is your delivery vehicle 📤. You export the fixed Figma architecture into PowerPoint and lock the foundations. The grids and brand elements become untouchable. Your sales reps only get access to the text boxes and data fields they actually need to change. They update the client name, change a metric, and send the file. Figma delivers absolute design precision. PowerPoint delivers universal team accessibility. When you combine them, your brand stays flawless 💎
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The lock holds only as long as the template covers what the rep actually needs to say. The moment someone has a slide the system has no layout for, they duplicate a page and unlock it, and you're back to square one with a file that looks official. How many layouts do you usually...
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Spot on. That is why I design flexible systems rather than rigid, one off slides.
I typically ship a core kit of 15-20 universal layouts. Instead of hyper specific slides, focus is on modular building blocks: multi-column metric cards, split comparisons, timeline containers, and...
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