PowerPoint speakers often create long slide shows for specific events, and then never use those shows again. Occasionally they go back and cannibalize past shows, but for the most part, content is designed to be throwaway.

Relational designers take an opposite approach. Slides typically contain only one main idea and are built to be reused in different contexts. For example, a slide showing a company product might be displayed by a sales representative today. Then an end-user trainer will show it tomorrow for an entirely different reason. Later a company executive, while responding to questions during a board meeting, might access the slide for yet another purpose.

Frequently, slides in relational networks are given high-quality graphics, precisely because they will be seen over and over again. They therefore deserve extra development time.