What is Beautiful.ai?

What is Beautiful.ai ?

Beautiful.ai is a cloud-based presentation tool that uses templates to help organisations create interesting presentations. Through a centralised library, teams can develop and share unique presentation decks with company identity, colours, fonts, logos, and other information.

Remote collaboration is a feature of Beautiful.ai that allows teams to synchronise data in real time to ensure up-to-date designs. The slides change automatically to the material, removing the need to reformat. Supervisors can also control role-based permissions to offer editing privileges and access to critical data, as well as lock logos and other design components to prevent unauthorised adjustments.

Features:

Beautiful.AI contains an introductory “Design Tips for Beautiful Slides” presentation to assist you in getting started. It’s also entirely adjustable, so you can experiment with all of the features and options as you go, or start from blank by clicking “make new presentation.” After that, you’ll be asked to select a theme as well as a colour scheme. You can use Beautiful.template AI’s library once you’ve started adding slides. Because it eliminates uncertainty about where to insert content and the terrible “staring at the blank slide” experience, this is the core of the site’s usefulness. As you build a presentation, each slide becomes a canvas, similar to what you’re used to in PowerPoint.

In fact, Beautiful includes all of the most popular PowerPoint features. They’re both AI, but they’re at quite different places. Users can change the colours and layout of each slide, as well as add images, animation, and presenter comments, using the navigation on the left side of the screen. On the right side of the screen, you can add, duplicate, or delete a slide. You can also use the arrange tool to zoom out and see all of the slides in the presentation.

One of the most lovely. The built-in free stock picture library is one of AI’s best features, and my personal favourite. You can search for photographs or choose from pre-selected categories like Data, Meeting, Nature, or Technology. Although there is an import tool, having stock images available is tremendously helpful if you don’t have your own. Using these photos also assures that no copyright limitations are broken and gives your presentation a professional look. For making tutorials or introductions to a topic, the options to add an audio track and advance times to slides are also useful. You can present immediately from the browser or save to PDF or PowerPoint when you’re ready. There are other options to share with a link or embed with code.

Usability

While a presentation software platform’s intuitive design and overall usability won’t necessarily make or break its existence, they will both play a role in determining whether or not someone will use it more than once. Beautiful.AI was, for the most part, simple and enjoyable to use. The user interface is bold but simple, and it follows current website design trends. Users who are unfamiliar with generating presentations online in a non-PowerPoint environment may initially find the Beautiful.AI interface bewildering. The majority of features are contained under icons, which you must hover over to reveal their function. Some icons, such as the camera for “Add Image,” are self-evident, but others, such as Layout and Organize, are less so. The terminology used by AI may also be unfamiliar. For example, I was initially perplexed by the term “variations,” especially because it is only an option for the title slide.

The lack of drag-and-drop functionality for text fields is clearly a feature I’m missing. Given that it’s one of the company’s most prominent marketing claims, this is where the automatic design adaptation didn’t seem to perform as well as I would’ve expected. Capitalizing a letter in the title on the title slide of my presentation led the text to migrate closer to the margin of the slide. I could simply move the text block to the left in Canva or reduce the font size by a couple of points.

Pros

The templates make it simple to build professional-looking slides with animation. I can create 30-40 slides in a few hours using universal styling, whereas with PowerPoint, it would take 1.5 days and I’d spend the majority of that time standardising the styling because PowerPoint’s autosizing causes two presentations to look drastically different.

Cons

You might want to nudge anything now and again, but the template won’t let you. This annoyance is small, and it occurs much less frequently now that their text boxes and objects feature has been included. I propose finishing your material before working on an animated order (e.g. bulleted lists), because if you reorganise the content, it will stay in the same order.

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