How to Make a Modern PowerPoint Presentation in 2026
PowerPoint isn't dying the way everyone predicted — but the decks that still work look almost nothing like the ones from five years ago.
Design tips, tutorials, product updates, and industry insights.
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PowerPoint isn't dying the way everyone predicted — but the decks that still work look almost nothing like the ones from five years ago.
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The 2007 iPhone keynote gets quoted constantly for its simplicity — but the slides weren't actually the thing doing the work.
Bubble charts score worse on every chart-reading accuracy test than pie charts do — so why does the slide with bubbles always feel like the pricier deck?
The slide deck that killed in New York can quietly lose a room in Tokyo — here's what actually changes when your audience isn't from one place.
Most decks aren't slow to translate because of the language — they're slow because of how they were built in the first place.
Airbnb had a 360-page prospectus full of numbers — so why did its roadshow deck spend most of its runtime on people, not spreadsheets?
The advice every presentation designer repeats sounds airtight — until you watch it fail in a real client deck, and nobody says why.