About this design
Where the Field Notes style comes from, and what it signals.
Field Notes borrows from the physical culture of ethnographic and UX research: the kraft folder, the ruled index card, the red pencil circle. Content sits on slightly rotated white cards, each printed with faint blue ruled lines at rgba(125,160,199,0.4), taped down with semi-transparent beige strips. The assembled quality is intentional.
The background is flat kraft brown (#D7BC94) with no decoration beyond the cards themselves. Typography is Courier Prime throughout, a typewriter monospace that reinforces the analogy. The single accent is pencil red #B5483A: it appears as rough ellipses drawn twice with slightly different paths to suggest an actual pencil stroke, in margin notes, and in the small uppercase 'EXHIBIT A' style tags framed by a 1.5px ink border.
The theme fits research readouts and study materials where the handmade quality is itself a form of credibility. It signals that someone sat in the room, took notes and circled the number that matters. Corporate pitch decks would undercut that signal.
Use it for
- UX and user research readouts for product teams
- Academic or field study summaries
- Workshop facilitation and discovery session recaps
- Investigative or audit report presentations
Skip it for
- Executive board decks where polish signals preparation
- Sales pitches; the lo-fi aesthetic reads as unfinished to buyers
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Design slides as a researcher's kraft folder, the 'Field Notes' theme. Background: kraft brown #D7BC94, bare. All content sits on white #FFFFFF index cards rotated between -2 and 2 degrees, each printed with faint blue ruled lines, 1px lines of rgba(125,160,199,0.4) every 27px, and a soft small shadow. Tape the cards down with masking-tape strips: semi-transparent beige rectangles about 96 by 28px in rgba(238,226,200,0.82), rotated roughly 40 degrees across top corners or laid flat at the top center. Typography: the typewriter monospace 'Courier Prime' (a Google Font) everywhere in ink #3A3530, with small uppercase labels at wide tracking. Signature marks: rough red pencil ellipses in #B5483A, drawn twice with a lighter second pass, circling the one number or phrase that matters; short red margin notes; small 'EXHIBIT A' style tags in uppercase 'Courier Prime' inside a 1.5px ink border. Strictly avoid: photographs, gradients, serif fonts, perfectly straight cards, rounded corners, any bright color beyond the single pencil red. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Field Notes deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Field Notes on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Field Notes presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Field Notes slide design prompt in practice.
