2. 1. Feedback and external reviewing in
Powerpoint
• Shubham Jain is an entrepreneur who has multiple
startups
• He is the UX head of Perdix, a firm offering design
solutions
• He constantly makes presentations for clients to pitch
his products
• He collaborates with his colleagues, Dushyant,
Manish and Srijan and takes their feedback at every
step.
Shubham Jain,
Age 24,
UX Head, Perdix
4. Proposed Model
• In the earlier model, there is extensive confusion created my long mailing threads. A
mailing thread usually lasts for approximately 30-40 messages in Shubham’s case
• Collaborators wrote their feedback in mail, and it was difficult for them to clearly explain
what they meant. Also, since the collaborators were almost always on the move, they wrote
such long mails on mobile devices / tablet devices, which was painstaking.
6. He accesses the review
panel and clicks on “Invite
reviewers”. He adds the mail
addresses of Dushyant and
Srijan, who are already
listed as his contacts on his
Microsoft profile.
23. An overlay like layer is
formed on the slide and all
of Dushyant’s comments are
included as links on
highlighted areas.
He accesses them one by
one and makes respective
changes.
The review layer can be
minimized to edit the
presentation.
24. 2. Template Broadcasting and its use in tablet Devices
Current Scenario:
• Only basic functionalities available i.e, text and images.
• Exporting and importing content is an issue
• Creating and formatting content is a pain in touchscreen devices, where there aren’t
enough number of interactions defined to take care of complex actions like diagramming,
designing etc of a presentation.
• Stock templates are “Boring!”
25. Scenario
• Ankit is a student in IIT Guwahati and has to quickly
put together a presentation for his group of
professors.
• He is on the move and only has his tablet device
with him
• He is content focused and is from a technical
background, lacking any design knowledge.
• His professors have repeatedly told him to make
better presentations.
• He generally relies on his friend Varun to improve
his presentations visually.
Ankit Parikh
Age 21
B.Tech CSE
IIT Guwahati
26. Varun makes a presentation
and is just about to finish
27. A prompt can ask him to
broadcast the template if he
wishes to do so.
28. Upon broadcasting the
template, all text and Images
can be replaced by dummy
content and can be
broadcasted for colleagues /
friends / public domain to use
29. When Ankit is about to make
his presentation,
A separate on the “choose
template” screen will show the
top rated templates and the
templates uploaded or used by
his contacts.
A rating system will further
help making the choice easier.
Also, templates uploaded by
contacts have the benefit of
trust.
30. He likes a template by Varun
and applies it to the
presentation.
31. All the attributes of the
template, i.e, graphic styles,
Fonts, font sizes, colour
schemes, etc are automatically
formatted and Ankit will only
have to edit the finer details of
the content.
33. An elements tab is accessible,
which contains all the elements
like heading styles, font styles,
illustrations, flowcharts etc,
which operates in drag and
drop.
34. Ankit quickly chooses his
preferred styles with a single
tap and the styles are applied
35. The same is applicable to other
elements like flowcharts etc,
which empower Ankit to create
such complex content instantly.
The efforts involved in
formatting are reduced to a
bare minimum.
