# research-slide-design

This skill shapes technical talks and posters around clear visual claims and a logical slide sequence. Use it for seminars, conference talks, or defenses.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 22
- Author: hanhuark
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/research-slide-design

## What it does

The skill guides each slide around one claim, question, or transition. It favors figures and diagrams over explanatory paragraphs, while speaker notes add interpretation and explain how the next slide follows. Text stays on screen when it carries a takeaway, a qualifier, a key number, or labels needed to read a figure.

Before outlining, editing slides, writing notes, making a poster, or planning animation, read `references/presentation-slides.md`. Source figures need a readability check at presentation size. Keep axes, units, uncertainty, and conditions that affect how the data should be understood. Cropping those details can change the claim a figure supports.

The final review happens in presentation mode: check fit, legibility from a distance, overlap, and whether motion clarifies the point. For publication schematics, facilities, workflows, and system diagrams, the skill points to `research-schematic-design` for editable geometry and verification of labels and arrows.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/research-slide-design/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill research-slide-design
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --path skills/research-slide-design
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill --skill research-slide-design -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map a technical talk into a logical slide sequence
- replace dense explanations with figures and diagrams
- write speaker notes that add context instead of repeating slide text
- check figure legibility and animation in presentation mode

## Example prompts
- Plan a technical research talk, with one clear claim for each slide.
- Review these slides for unreadable figures, overlapping objects, and text that does not fit.
- Write speaker notes that explain the evidence and connect each slide to the next.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: research-slide-design
description: Design clean, graphics-first technical presentations and posters with logical slide progression, visual hierarchy, purposeful motion, and complementary speaker notes. Use for research talks, conference slides, seminars, defenses, posters, or figure-focused presentations.
---

# Research Slide Design

## Purpose

Make technical presentations easy to follow and visually calm. A listener should be able to anticipate the reason for slide N+1 from slide N, while the presenter supplies the interpretation that the slide does not repeat.

## Route To Reference

Read `references/presentation-slides.md` before building an outline, editing slides, creating speaker notes, designing a poster, or planning animations and videos.

## Design Rules

- Establish one claim, question, or transition per slide; use section transitions when the logic changes.
- Treat every visual group as having its own rectangle of space. Maintain clear separation between title, figure, annotation, legend, takeaway, and navigation elements.
- Prefer figures, diagrams, sequences, video, and purposeful animation over paragraphs. Keep only information that cannot be conveyed clearly by the visual.
- Use display text for the take-home message, a necessary qualifier, a key number, or labels required to decode the figure.
- Speaker notes should explain the slide's evidence and transition, not recite its visible text.

## Research Figure Handling

Use source figures only after checking readability at presentation size. Simplify legends, emphasize the comparison relevant to the claim, and label data provenance. Do not crop away axes, units, uncertainty, or conditions that affect interpretation.

For a publication schematic, graphical abstract, facility, workflow, or system diagram, use `research-schematic-design` to preserve editable geometry and verify the physical meaning of every label and arrow.

## Final Check

Review the slide sequence in presentation mode. Check that text fits, graphics are legible at distance, no objects overlap, animations clarify rather than distract, and a viewer can recover the narrative from slide titles and visual claims alone.
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© hanhuark · MIT · https://github.com/hanhuark/mechanical-engineering-research-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/research-slide-design/SKILL.md

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