Education & research slide design prompts

Slides for teaching have a different success metric: did the room follow? These themes put legibility first. Seminar and Syllabus give lectures a clean, high-contrast reading rhythm, Notebook and Chalkboard make classroom material feel approachable, Observatory and Herbarium suit research talks that need calm authority, and Quiz Night, Level Up and Varsity turn review sessions into something students actually look up for.

The prompts encode classroom realities: type sizes that survive the back row, one idea per slide, predictable layout so attention goes to the content, and palettes tested for washed-out projectors. The avoid lists ban dense bullet stacks, the main way lecture slides go wrong.