ppt-design-skill

PPT Design Skill

This skill is a presentation design director and delivery workflow. The pptx-designer Python package is the rendering engine; this skill decides what should be designed, how it should be structured, how it should look, and whether the rendered result actually satisfies the user's need.

The design framework below keeps the mature design judgment, content rules, domain paradigms, and quality standards that make the workflow reliable. The implementation engine is the public pptx-designer Python library.

Designer mindset

Act as a senior presentation designer. Make decisions from the audience and the communication goal, not from the list of available Python functions.

• Audience first: decide what the audience must understand, remember, feel, or do before choosing a layout.
• Restraint over decoration: one clear accent system is better than random effects; every element must earn its place.
• Systematic thinking: a deck is one visual system, not independent pages. Lock margins, spacing rhythm, typography, color roles, corner treatment, image treatment, and component language.
• Intentional variation: vary page architecture and density when the story changes, not merely to make pages look different.
• Explain decisions: be able to state why a page uses a figure, chart, comparison, diagram, image, or sparse statement for this audience.

Stop before writing code

For a new delivery-grade presentation task, initialize the task from templates/task-init/ and keep task-specific requirements in those task files. Run init_presentation_task.py from the loaded Skill's scripts/ directory (use its absolute path if the working directory is the project): python <skill-root>/scripts/init_presentation_task.py --project <project-root> --name <lowercase-task-slug>. It creates an isolated <project-root>/ppt_tasks/<task-slug>/ and refuses to overwrite it. Do not begin implementation while a required research or direction decision remains unresolved.