About this design
Where the Whiteboard style comes from, and what it signals.
Whiteboard is the photograph you take after a great session. The design premise is that the best thinking often happens on a physical board, and that a slide deck documenting that thinking should look like the board itself. The slightly rotated sticky notes, shallow-wave underlines and hand-drawn arrows are precise enough to be intentional without being so perfect that they look like clip art.
Every slide sits inside a 2px light-gray frame with 10px rounded corners, reading as the board edge. Permanent Marker handles headlines in near-black #111111; Quicksand handles body text; Kalam is for the sticky note handwriting. Underlines are 6px thick rounded strokes in blue #2563EB, red #DC2626, green #16A34A or black, drawn as shallow waves. Sticky notes are yellow #FEF08A and pink #FBCFE8, rotated 1 to 3 degrees with a soft shadow. Exactly one red ellipse outlines exactly one word per deck.
Whiteboard works best for internal working sessions: retrospectives, sprint reviews, offsite summaries, and strategy workshops documented for people who were not in the room. The one-circled-word constraint is deliberate; it forces you to identify the single most important thing on the board.
Use it for
- Offsite and workshop retrospectives shared after the session
- Sprint reviews and team strategy working sessions
- Internal brainstorm summaries for stakeholders not in the room
- Design thinking readouts and ideation session recaps
Skip it for
- Formal external presentations where the hand-drawn aesthetic suggests informality
- Data-heavy reports where the sticky-note format constrains how much can be shown
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Whiteboard' theme, a workshop board after a good session. Background: warm white (#FDFDFB) with a thin 2px light-gray frame (#E3E3DB, 10px rounded corners) inset about 14px on every slide, reading as the board edge. Typography: headlines in 'Permanent Marker', marker handwriting; body in friendly bold 'Quicksand', near-black #111111, side notes in #6B6B66 (all fonts here are Google Fonts). Signature motifs: marker underlines, 6px thick rounded strokes drawn slightly uneven as a shallow wave, never ruler-straight, in marker blue #2563EB, red #DC2626, green #16A34A, or black #111111, placed under headlines and key items; sticky notes, 100 to 170px squares in yellow #FEF08A and pink #FBCFE8, rotated 1 to 3 degrees with a very soft small shadow and short lowercase notes handwritten in 'Kalam'; thin hand-drawn curved arrows with open arrowheads connecting related items; exactly one circled word per deck, a red ellipse outline around a single word. Stats go on big sticky notes. Strictly avoid: ruler-straight underlines, gradients, heavy shadows, formal tables, perfectly upright sticky notes, more than one circled word. 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 Whiteboard 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 Whiteboard 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 Whiteboard presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Whiteboard slide design prompt in practice.
