How Claude Design Helps You Get Promoted

Yes, you read this correctly: Cloud design can help you get promoted and most likely more than Claude Code or any other workflow automation tool.

Let me explain.

Building AI workflows, automations, and the like is becoming a commodity skill. Tools like Swan AI are already automating what a GTM engineer does. In that regard, the skills have already become a commodity. Of course, there are complex use cases where a fully automated solution will not work, but give it some time, and they will.

On the other side, the strategic element of revenue operations can hardly be automated. Finding alignment among your Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, VP of Customer Success, and the product team requires many conversations, meetings, and presentations. The people part of RevOps is not going away.

In my experience, I hate designing presentations. I can create and wireframe the slides, but making them pretty, I couldn’t care less, but I do know that other people care. I do know that good slides help to get a message across and an aligned theme, so now I have to focus on it. This can be a tedious exercise.

This is where Claude Design comes into play.

The beauty of Claude Design is that it does exactly this. It takes your ugly slides and makes them pretty. It can also create everything from scratch, but I prefer to have some agency in the process.

Now let me walk through what I’m doing.

Step 0: Create a design system.

At Revenue Wizards, we had the advantage of working with a designer who created a design system for us. This one I could just upload into Claude Design, do a little bit of fine-tuning, and now we have a consistent design system which is unique to our brand.

You can also use Claude Design to create something from scratch for you. Chances are it recycles content and gives other people the same recommendation, so it may look similar to others. It might be okay for you; it might not be. Else, use your company’s design system or work with a designer to get one out. Usually, every mid-sized company should have one already.

Step 1: Wire-framing in Google Slides or PowerPoint

Next, I create some unformatted slides in Google Slides or PowerPoint. I do this because it helps to think through the slides’ structure. For more complex design elements, I can move things around or use Miro to design something ugly – in the structure I like. I find this much faster than reprompting. Maybe you can do it more easily with prompts, but I can’t.

So basically, I create this wireframe first in Google Slides – especially for high-stakes slide decks.

Step 2: Claude Designing

Next, I upload the wireframe, any call notes, and internal or external documents, and provide guidance on how to create the slides. In terms of what language to use, which audience is in there, etc., to optimize the slide creation, that might take some re-prompting to get it to a level I’m happy with.

Step 3: Back to Google Slides or PowerPoint for fine-tuning

Finally, I end up back in Google Slides or PowerPoint for fine-tuning. Fine-tuning means adjusting the little design elements, adding pictures. Claude's design is not great with pictures yet, especially when changing copy. Here I spend a lot of time, depending on the importance of the meeting, to really make every word count. I don’t want to have any AI slop on my slides. Again, it’s called Claude Design and not Claude Author.

Further, it’s very easy to collaborate in a slide tool. We can comment on each other, attack, go through it, etc., and then we get to an ideal state.

Claude Design, a real-time safer and designer

Creating a slide deck for high-stakes projects requires time and effort, conceptualizing it, but also making the slides top-notch. Claude Design cannot help with the conceptualization, nor do I want to, because I would like to rely on my own brainpower.

But the design element is extremely painful. Juniors in McKinsey, Bain, and co spend days, if not weeks, on making it nice. This is now AI land. What might take multiple days can be done within one day. That is for me important as a strategic RevOps.

This is a massive win, massive.

Your crisp thinking, alignment of key stakeholders on important strategic decisions, and excellent delivery will set you up for success. Those are the people who get promoted, not the ones who build the coolest flow.

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