how i turned Post-it Notes into a PowerPoint with Claude Design

I just turned a handful of post-it notes into a branded pitch deck using Claude Design. Wrote the slide outline by hand on a few sticky notes, snapped photos, fed them in, got back a real deck that matches my site. Black background, orange accents, my voice.

This guide is the exact flow — so you can copy it for whatever deck you've been avoiding.

Here are the two photos I took off my coffee table — five cards, one idea per card, handwriting and all. Click either one to expand.

And here's what Claude Design produced from those photos plus my brand kit — five slides, black background, orange accents, my voice. Use ← / → to navigate.

The hardest part of a deck is not the design. It's figuring out what the slides should say. A blank canvas makes you think about layout before content, and that's where most decks die.

Post-its force you to commit to one idea per card. No bullet points. No sub-sub-headings. Just: what is this slide about?

My five cards, in order:

1. Title slide — name + subheading
2. Who am I — past work + what I've built with AI
3. Main offer — consulting, automation workflows, custom solutions
4. What people say about me — 3 quotes of people I've worked with (placeholder for now)
5. Let's work together — links, email, social, @atareh

That's it. No slide design. No font decisions. The content is locked before Claude Design sees anything.

This is the step that separates a generic-looking deck from one that actually feels like yours. Before you generate anything, give Claude Design something to match.

There are four ways to seed a brand kit:

Snap a photo of each post-it with your phone. You don't need perfect lighting or a flat scan — Claude reads handwriting fine as long as the note is legible to a human.

Drag all the photos into the Claude Design chat. Or paste them with ⌘V one at a time. Order matters — upload them in the order you want the slides.

With the brand kit set and the photos uploaded, the prompt is almost trivial. Here's what I used:

These post-it notes are my outline for an intro deck. Each note is one slide, in order. Use the brand kit we just set up — black background, orange accents, the typography from my site.

Build the deck. One idea per slide, lots of breathing room. Number the sections (01, 02, 03…) and label them (ABOUT, THE OFFER, etc.) in the top corners. Where I wrote "placeholder," leave visible placeholder text so I know what to fill in later.

Hit enter. Claude Design reads the notes, matches the brand, and renders the deck slide by slide.

Once the deck is generated, you have two ways to refine it:

• Comment mode — click any element, leave a note, batch them up, then send them as a single message. Way faster than chatting one tweak at a time.
• Knobs panel — drag live sliders for things like accent glow intensity, spacing, sizes. No prompt required.

Use chat for structural changes (“swap this headline”, “add a logo row”), Comment + Knobs for polish.

When it's done, export:

• PDF — for email attachments or printing
• PPTX — opens in Keynote, PowerPoint, or Google Slides
• Send to Canva — if your team edits collaboratively
• URL — a live link, which is what I use most

The trick is separating the two hard problems.

Hard problem one is figuring out what to say. Post-its solve that — you're forced to commit to one idea per card, by hand, away from a screen.

Hard problem two is making it look good on-brand. The brand kit solves that — Claude Design has your colors, your typography, your tone before it generates a single pixel.

When you decouple those two, the actual deck-making collapses into a single prompt. The output feels deliberate because you made the deliberate choices on paper; Claude just executed.

1. Pick a deck you've been putting off — intro, pitch, one-pager, team offsite recap, whatever.
2. Write one post-it per slide. Cap yourself at 7–10 cards.
3. Point Claude Design at a GitHub repo, Figma file, or four screenshots of branding you like.
4. Upload the post-it photos in order and run the prompt above.
5. Edit in Comment mode. Export to PPTX or send to Canva.

The thing that unlocks this is not Claude Design itself — it's the post-it step. Do that on paper, with a pen, before you open anything. The tool takes care of the rest.