Building Design Systems & Slide Decks with AI
In person

Building Design Systems & Slide Decks with AI

A repeatable workflow for branded outputs, efficient prompting, and tokens that don't run away from you.

Building Design Systems & Slide Decks with AI is a practical, small-group training course held in person at Network Hub, 300 Kensal Road, London W10 5BE, led by Gerald Clark and Fola Yahaya of SA Training (Strategic Agenda). The course runs as a 4-hour session with a maximum of 10 participants and is designed for Communications, design, and strategy teams who are already using AI assistants and now want to professionalise the workflow..

A half-day, hands-on workshop for teams already using AI assistants who want a workflow they can trust. We use a real failure — EY's withdrawn Canadian study, found to contain fake footnotes — as a way into how to make AI work reliably for branded outputs. Participants leave with four artefacts: a one-page design system, a storylining outline, a hallucination checklist, and token-management rules of thumb.

What will I leave with?

A one-page design system for your organisation
A storylining outline you can reuse
A hallucination checklist
Token-management rules of thumb
Materials emailed the day before.

What will I learn?

  • Define a lightweight design system (colours, typography, layout rules, components) in a form an AI assistant can apply consistently.
  • Generate a structured slide deck from an outline using the storylining principle of story-first, slides-second.
  • Run an export-and-finesse loop: get to 80% with AI, polish the last 20% by hand.
  • Manage tokens efficiently: know what wastes them, what reuses well, and when to start fresh.
  • Recognise failure modes — hallucinated citations, vibed facts, drifting style — and apply a checklist to catch them before they ship.

Course modules

Who is this course for?

Communications, design, and strategy teams who are already using AI assistants and now want to professionalise the workflow.

Prerequisites

A laptop/PC with appropriate account access. An account with the AI assistant your organisation uses, with permissions to upload files and create projects or skills. A real piece of work in progress — a deck you are about to make or a document you are about to draft.

Practical details

Location
Network Hub, 300 Kensal Road, London W10 5BE. Nearest stations: Kensal Green and Kensal Rise (London Overground).
Format
In-person, hands-on, small group.
Group size
Maximum 10 participants per session.
Trainers
Typically two trainers per session — Gerald Clark and Fola Yahaya.
What to bring
A laptop with the relevant tool accounts active. Full details sent with your booking confirmation.
Included
Refreshments and scheduled comfort breaks for in-person sessions.

Your trainer

Gerald Clark

Gerald Clark

Practical AI workflows for communications and design teams

Strategic Agenda. Leads training engagements on practical AI workflows for communications and design teams.

Fola Yahaya

Fola Yahaya

AI, Digital Transformation, AI Strategy, AI workflows

Dr Fola Yahaya is an AI expert, published author and the Founder of Strategic Agenda, a global strategic communications consultancy which for more than 20 years has been helping clients like the UN share compelling stories so that the right people do the right things.

Course materials

Design system templateUnlocks when you enrol
Storylining outlineUnlocks when you enrol
Hallucination checklistUnlocks when you enrol
Token-management cheat sheetUnlocks when you enrol

Materials are available to enrolled participants only.

Frequently asked questions

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