Creating an engaging, Interactive Presentation doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you build one using our Interactive Presentation solution.
1. Drag and Drop the Interactive Presentation App
Find the Interactive Presentation App in the list of building blocks and drag it into your canvas to get started.
2. Choose How You Want to Start
You can begin your presentation in one of three ways:
- Start from a blank canvas
- Upload a PDF file
- Upload images
Choose the option that best fits your content.
3. Browse and Use Templates
Click Templates in the left-hand menu to explore a variety of professionally designed slides.
Pro tip: You don’t need to stick to one template, feel free to combine slides from multiple templates to match your style and needs.
To do this, you can either:
- Click to insert the slides you want to add
- Replace a current slide
- Add as a new slide
You can mix, match, and rearrange them however you like.
4. Use the Right Sidebar for Slide Management & General Settings
The right-hand panel is the control center for managing both individual slides and the overall presentation experience.:
Here’s what you can do:
Slide Management
- View all slides at a glance to understand the structure of your presentation.
- Reorder, duplicate, or delete slides quickly and efficiently as you iterate.
Presentation Settings
- Click the Settings icon next to “Presentation Settings” to customize the overall look and behavior of your deck:
- Adjust fonts, primary color, icon/text colors, and background to match your branding or desired style.
- Set slide dimensions, including standard formats like 16:9 or fully custom sizes.
- Define transitions between slides for a smooth viewing experience.
- Show or hide navigation controls, depending on how guided or open you want the experience to be.
Gating Content (Optional)
You can also enable content gating — a way to control access to specific slides or sections based on viewer interaction. This is useful when:
- A lead form must be submitted before proceeding.
- A quiz or task must be completed to unlock the next section.
- Click on a specific button to trigger the next slide or path.
- Score higher than a set threshold in a game to access bonus content.
- Unlock content after a countdown using the Countdown Addon.
This allows your presentation to adapt to viewers in real time, making it more interactive, personalized, and results-driven.
Coming Soon:
- Personalization
- Notes
5. Slide Flow and Animations
Each slide follows a natural flow with three key stages:
- Enter: What happens when the slide first appears.
- Steps: A series of in-slide transitions that guide the viewer through the content.
- Exit: What happens when the slide is about to transition to the next.
Understanding and designing for these stages allows you to create more dynamic, interactive, and intentional storytelling within your presentation.
Use Steps to Build Interactive Moments
Steps are actions that take place within a single slide before moving to the next one like checkpoints that let you introduce content gradually or create in-slide interactivity.
Each step supports three types of behavior, which run in a specific sequence:
- Zoom: Adjust the view to focus on a particular area.
- Animation: Play timed animations for selected elements.
- Action Sets: Use Action Sets to interact with components and addons from your project.
Action Sets are particularly powerful. They let you connect slide behavior to components and add-ons from your project. This means you can:
- Check if a lead form was submitted before allowing the viewer to proceed.
- Evaluate a user’s score in a Marketing Game and branch the experience accordingly.
- Send entries to a giveaway or draw based on user interaction.
- Trigger KPIs or other events tied to backend systems or integrations.
These are executed in the order listed above: first the zoom, then the animation, and finally any action sets. This structure ensures smooth, predictable transitions within the slide.
Defining Custom Transition Logic
The Exit stage is also where you can set up Custom Transition Logic, giving you control over how users move from one slide to the next.
This lets you:
- Build non-linear flows based on user input or interaction.
- Skip slides, branch into different sections, or loop content.
- Tailor navigation paths to better fit storytelling, education, or decision-making use cases.
This makes it possible to build presentations that behave more like interactive apps than traditional decks.
Bottom line, the Slide Flow enables a wide range of powerful presentation patterns such as:
- Zoom in and out navigation, allowing viewers to explore content deeper and zoom back out for context.
- Step-by-step bullet reveals, keeping viewers focused and engaged.
- Interactive paths and branching flows, useful for demos, onboarding, or storytelling.
Slide Flow turns your presentation into a guided Interactive Experience.
You’re Ready to Build
That’s it — you’ve got everything you need to start building Interactive Presentations that actually feel interactive. Play around with the tools, test out Slide Flow, and see what kind of magic you can create. Not sure where to start? Hit up our Interactive Presentation template collection for some inspiration and ready-made slides you can make your own.