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When you don’t know where to take your presentation, Smart Slide templates are a great starting point. The customizable templates use guardrails to protect the design as you add in your content, and can help you reimagine your story. While there are intentional limitations to maintain design integrity, there are so many different ways to customize each layout beyond the default settings.
In this series, we’re highlighting your favorite slide templates, and challenging you to try something new. For each Smart Slide, we’ll showcase different ways to style and format it to help inspire a new way to tell your story.
Funnel
A funnel chart is an incredibly versatile diagram that illustrates the stages of a process in the workplace. People often use funnel slides in presentations, reports, marketing materials, and dashboards to illustrate the sales of a product or service.
You can use a funnel slide whenever you need to display data that decreases over time. They are especially useful to managers and anyone who might need a high-level view of an overall process.
A funnel and pyramid can be interchangeable. Turn your pyramid on its head to create a funnel, or transform it into a wedge, “Aztec”, or staircase— all with the click of a button.
Here are five different ways to use Beautiful.ai's funnel Smart Slide template in your next presentation.
Funnel
The shape of the funnel conveys a message, but it also limits your space. Plan to condense information to make everything fit without looking cramped or unorganized. In projects where space matters, bullet points help get your message across without taking up the entire slide.
Pyramid
Only use a pyramid for topics that are connected. Your topic has to make sense when arranged in a pyramid. How new employees can get promoted makes sense for a pyramid; how every department relates to each other does not.
Volcano
A volcano is a different style of a pyramid, but can be used in a similar way. Too many sections in your volcano will look crowded and complicated. If five sections aren’t enough, consider breaking your info into separate slides.
Aztec
Make the differences between your aztec pyramid levels even clearer by assigning different colors to each one. You might also call out key information with bolded text. The bold font draws the eyes of your audience and makes that word or term stand out throughout your presentation.
Staircase
The staircase variation allows you to show steps in a process in a more visual way. This can be used to manage projects, business processes, or software testing steps.
