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August 7, 2026
A dashboard is not a decision. It is raw material for one. A dashboard and a decision are not the same thing. One shows you the data. The other does something with it. Think of it like a kitchen full of ingredients. The ingredients do not make dinner. The cook does, and only after deciding what the meal needs to be. A CEO staring at thirty trend lines is akin to someone standing in a well-stocked kitchen with no idea what to cook. The best executives have quietly figured this out. They do not ask, What can we measure? They ask, What do I need to know to make the next call? That shift, from measurement to decision, is where KPIs earn their place. Not every number on a dashboard qualifies. A KPI is the number that actually changes what you do next.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
August 6, 2026
Maurizio La Cava is Co-Founder and CEO of MLC Presentation Design Consulting, the leading presentation design agency in Italy. He is the author of Lean Presentation Design, Presenting Data, Startup Pitch Presentation, and AI Fluency, and teaches pitch and presentation strategy at Politecnico di Milano. He developed the Lean Presentation Design methodology, combining lean thinking, cognitive science and storytelling to help corporate teams communicate with clarity and impact. Before founding MLC, he worked at Accenture and Ferrero International. In this conversation, Maurizio discusses his new MLC Assets Portal.
August 3, 2026
Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022. In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new Design Checker option.
July 28, 2026
This issue has a quiet theme running through it: intention before action. Gavin McMahon's Story Business interview argues that good communication starts with the audience, not with slides. Ramgopal's Presentation Process AI Club is built on the same belief: clarity comes from thinking, not from generating. And the tutorial on adding guides in PowerPoint 365 is about exactly that, placing every element where it belongs, on purpose. Whether you are crafting a story, structuring an argument, or laying out a slide, this issue is about doing it with a plan.
Stay updated with the latest tutorials, tips, and news on PowerPoint and presentation techniques.
July 24, 2026
Have you watched an expert tailor at work? They start by marking the pattern on the fabric. They don't just slap down one chalk mark on the fabric and call it a day. There's one chalk mark for the hem, another for the waist, and yet another for the sleeve length. Every single mark earns its place on that fabric. PowerPoint hands you the design equivalent of that very first chalk mark: one horizontal guide, one vertical guide, crossing politely at dead center of your slide. That works well for simple layouts, but more complex designs call for a more complete guide structure. Just like the tailor who can add chalk marks as needed, you can add more guides to create a proper visual structure for your slides.
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