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html-ppt-zhangzara-scatterbrain

Helps your agent present a design graduation project about a wayfinding system in a transit hub. It details the brief, process, and outcome.

What it does

This tool creates HTML presentations that look like designer's drafts, similar to sticky notes. It's best for showing ideas in progress, not final conclusions.

When to use it

  • ✓For creative brainstorms and workshops.
  • ✓To present initial project ideas.
  • ✓When you want an informal, work-in-progress look.

Example of what to ask your AI

“Create a presentation about the future of design using the Scatterbrain style.”

Want more? Open the sections below.

How to use

The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.

Skill link

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/blob/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-scatterbrain/SKILL.md

Ready-to-paste message

Use this skill to help me: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/blob/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-scatterbrain/SKILL.md Read the SKILL.md file at that link and follow its instructions for my task.
How it works

You start by copying an example file and replacing the content. It's important not to change the fonts, colors, or layout to maintain the draft style.

Installation

Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.

In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill html-ppt-zhangzara-scatterbrain

Or download just the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-scatterbrain/SKILL.md -o SKILL.md
Technical content (original SKILL.md)

Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.

Scatterbrain

Post-it inspired: pastel sticky notes, Caveat handwriting, Shrikhand and Zilla Slab type stack.

A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system, and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates breaks the system; stay inside this one.

At a glance

  • Scheme: light
  • Formality: low
  • Density: high
  • Slides in demo: 10

Best for

Anything that should feel like a designer's whiteboard: brainstorms, workshops, creative-agency credentials, design-thinking sessions, ideation pitches, art-direction reviews. Equally fun for any deck — including tech, research, or business — that wants to read as in-progress thinking rather than polished conclusions.

Avoid for

Contexts that demand precision and institutional weight — the post-it sticky-note aesthetic intentionally reads as warm and unfinished.

Workflow

  1. Clone example.html into the user's workspace as the working file.
  2. Replace placeholder content with the user's real headlines, body copy, numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when swapping image placeholders.
  3. Preserve the design system. Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette, restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets, paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the identity.
  4. Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts. If the user has more content than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.
  5. Designing missing layouts: if a slide needs a layout the template doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette, decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail to a different template.
  6. Keep the navigation runtime as shipped. If the deck ships an assets/deck-stage.js or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.

Output contract

Emit between <artifact> tags:

<artifact identifier="zhangzara-scatterbrain" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>

Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates.

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at LICENSE and must be redistributed alongside any copy of example.html, template.json, or any vendored assets/ runtime. See template.json for the upstream metadata snapshot.

FAQ

Can I change the colors and fonts?

No, the sticky note and draft style is maintained by not altering these elements.

What does 'design system' mean?

It's the set of design rules (colors, fonts, shapes) that define the unique appearance of this presentation.

How do I add or remove slides?

You can duplicate existing slides to add more content or remove slides from the end if you have less content.

Details

Original description by the author

A design-school graduation project: a civic wayfinding system for a transit hub — the brief, the process, and the outcome. Built as a decision-grade coursework defense deck for crit panel, faculty.

repo: nexu-io/open-design

Popularity

GitHub stars
101k
Ranking position
#463
License
Apache-2.0
Updated
10/16/2026

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