I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started to build this in PowerPoint. I decided to switch to Claude and ended up with an interactive one-page web app. This post looks at how I approached the process.

This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems.

Editing in PowerPoint

Someone sent me a slide in PPT and asked me for feedback. I wanted to adjust the look, and started to make changes in PPT. I was moving boxes, changing a few colors, and adding something that I thought would have more impact.

I was about to start building some animations to show how I envisioned things working when it occurred to me this would be a better as an interactive, more self-service item.

I opened Claude and this was my prompt. I uploaded an image of my slide.

In 3 minutes, I had a working one-page web app that I could click around in and see changes. I had one more prompt as my gauges weren’t working correctly.

I took another moment to fix the UI as it had 3 of my 5 items on one line and then I had to scroll to see the others. My last prompt fixed this.

After getting a slide asking for feedback from a colleague, and spending 10 minutes futzing in PPT, I switched to Claude and had a working, interactive showcase of what my mind was thinking,thanks to Claude (free Claude).

I sent it back and my colleague loves it. I don’t want to quite show this here, as we may use this in Redgate and someone will need to make it waaaaayyyy prettier than I can or even prettier than I can describe to the LLM.

How Useful is This?

You might say that going from an image or slide to an interactive picture isn’t useful. You might be right, and to be fair, I’ve never had the need to do this.

However, if I think a little wider about the idea of making something interactive or expressive, I have had the need for this type of thing before.

For example, I’ve needed a list of things that I want people to do and check them off. I’ve built this in word, with the little checkboxes, and given it to people. However, they have to remember to save as, or where it is, etc. Here, I could just give a URL to this in docs (or in code) and people could open it and live check boxes as they’re walking through a procedure. I could even have it change colors or notify when everything in a step is done.

Or display a warning if a step is skipped. How useful would that be?

I  have also had the need to ask a group of people a question and get their answers or ratings. How easy would it be to have a link I can send, detect the user (I’m sure AI can add this) and then record their vote, letting them override their decision at any time?

What about a page people can use to plan vacation or anything and send me back their decisions? This saves everything in a file.

What would your imagination let you build?