How can I use a presentation as a prototype?

An illustration of a person interacting with hotspots on a prototype of a website.

My two cents

You can use a presentation as an interactive prototype. You can use the link feature that is available in Keynote, Google Slides or Powerpoint to link to another slide when someones click on a specific object or image in a slide.

Example of how linking works in Keynote

This can help you build, for example:

  • A clickable prototype of digital experiences like an app or website. If you want to do this, there is even a template for Keynote and Powerpoint that helps you to do so even quicker called Keynotopia.

  • A prototype of a space where people can move to one room to the other by clicking on the doors.

  • A prototype of a service where you can click on a specific part of a Service Blueprint to get more details about that specific moment of the customer journey.

Basically, here the presentation is like one of these adventure books where kids choose how the story goes. For example, when the kid wants the hero to win, he has to go to page 40; if the hero fails, the kid has to go to page 30.

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