What the Heck are Smart Slides?

We all know the dread that comes with creating a new presentation slide from scratch. Not knowing where to start, and how to format your story, can result in decision paralysis. Also known as: blank slide syndrome (the antithesis of productivity). 

That point of frustration is where Smart Slides were born. 

What the heck are Smart Slides?

To know Beautiful.ai is to love Smart Slides – but what the heck are they? And how are they different from a traditional presentation slide?

Smart Slides are inspired, ready-to-use slide templates for your next presentation. With over 60 Smart Slides to choose from, you never have to worry about staring at a blank slide again. We offer a vast variety of customizable charts, infographics, photo collages, and visually appealing bulleted slides to give you a head start on your next presentation. Each slide template is totally customizable with endless, versatile use cases and design options. 

We know what you’re thinking: what’s so smart about them?

The magic is in the technology. With Beautiful.ai’s Smart Slide templates, you don’t have to be an experienced graphic designer to create a beautiful, engaging, and impactful presentation. Simply add your content and the slides will automatically adapt and adjust using principles of good design as the north star. Yep, you read that right. As you plug in your content, the text boxes and visual elements will resize and auto-align themselves to ensure a professional design, everytime. 

The goal of Smart Slides has always been to handle the design decisions for you, to make it incredibly simple and easy for you to create beautiful presentations regardless of your design skills. This required us to put design guardrails in place to protect the simplicity and aesthetic of the slide. Instead of feeling restricted, think of these guardrails as your own personal creative director helping you craft the best slide for your story.

Smart Slides will change your presentations forever

Now that you know what Smart Slides are, let’s talk about how they’ll level up your deck. 

Get immediate feedback on design

The true power of Smart Slides emerges when you're in the thick of content creation. Unlike static templates, Smart Slides adapt as you add your ideas, providing immediate feedback on design and structure.

As you type, you may notice you're running out of space, prompting you to edit and focus on what's essential. This real-time content development helps refine your message, forces you to think outside the box when structuring the bones of your story, and can lead to breakthroughs in articulating your concepts. It's like having a designer beside you, nudging you towards better, more impactful slides.

Save up to 70% design time

We all know time is money— but Smart Slides will save you both. 

Your team doesn’t have the resources to allocate budget to an in-house designer to help with sales decks? No problem. Frustrated with the marketing bottleneck waiting for design feedback? Smart Slides will help remove the friction in the design process. 

With the presentation slide design on autopilot, Smart Slides save users up to 70% of the time it would take to create a deck in traditional presentation software like PowerPoint. All without compromising style. 

Without the time-suck of tinkering with text boxes and fixing alignment issues, Smart Slides make beautiful designs accessible to everyone in a fraction of the time. 

Make it Beautiful, every time (no design-skills necessary)

Smart Slides adhere to a clean and modern design standard, so it’s nearly impossible to make a mess of your presentation. Yes, even if you’re in finance and have little-to-no design experience. 

Asymmetry is never an issue in Beautiful.ai. Our Smart Slide templates ensure that your text boxes, charts and images will always be aligned, sized correctly, and properly formatted. And don’t worry, even if you don’t know what you’re doing, our Smart Slide templates will tell you when you’ve added too much data or text to avoid cluttered slides. It’s like having a deck designer in your back pocket, without being one yourself.  

Plus, relinquishing full design control allows you to focus on what’s really important: your message. 

Getting started

The hardest part of creating a presentation is starting, and now you can start inspired. 

Ready to take Smart Slides for a spin? 

To get started, create a new presentation and add a new slide. You’ll find yourself in our Smart Slide library with over 60 templates to choose from depending on your presentation needs. Once you select a Smart Slide, there’s an inspiration gallery of a handful of fully-designed slides for you to choose from. Each slide in the inspiration gallery is fully customizable, and meant to give you different ideas for formatting your own Smart Slide. After a new Smart Slide is added to your presentation, you can drop in your content and start editing. 

Start a free trial today and unlock the power of Smart Slides.