Even SlidesCarnival, which I wholeheartedly recommend, is creating a bunch of different slide styles that aren’t layouts. It’s just that something gets lost in translation when designers are optimizing for reusability or efficiency or something. When you use a standard template, you get Title and Section Header and Main Point slide layouts. The thing is, Google Slides, and I think PowerPoint and Keynote already have this concept. Mine may be rendered by the voice of Idris Elba talking louder than usual, it doesn’t matter, because we are using meta-information to indicate what the significance of the content is. Unlinking presentation and meaning is at the heart of semantic work - I don’t care what your HTML H1 renders as on your page, I care that if we take the same content and render it on a different page, the meaning, the significance is not lost.
What if, at step 2, I actually found a layout with a semantically meaningful name, like “Title”? And what if there were others like “Section heading” and “Quote page light” and “Summary slide”? And what if each of those layouts already had the text positioned in the spiffy designed way as intended? Then I could just, y’know, put headings in, and then go back and put in images and speaker notes.ĪND (here’s where we get into really USEFUL semantics), what if… what IF those layout slide names were meaningful and persistent, and even if there was a massive rebrand, I could just apply the new corporate theme, and every slide changed how it looked but not what content it held? What if we decouple presentation and meaning? It’s almost 5 on a Friday, and I’m a little punchy, so I sound sarcastic, but I’m serious. First, a title slide!Ĥ) Sigh heavily, go open another tab? Window? Which contains an existing deck of the right style and era, one hopes. What I want: I am either creating a new slide deck, or updating an existing one so it looks right.
#Deckset speaker notes code#
And the slide layout for “blue 2” maybe gets used as the background for a code sample page, and a heading page, etc. It’s not the designer’s fault, to be clear - I have been stating my needs poorly.ĭesigners (appear to) think: Ah! We will have a variety of 8 backgrounds, and then I will use those backgrounds and make some slides from them, and people will copy the whole slide and thus they will get the positioning and font and color and everything right, they just have to replace the text and image, easy-peasy! And thus they name the slide layouts things like “stars” and “blue 2”. I realized a conflict that I’ve been having with designers for a while now, and I thought I’d share it with you.
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