How do I go from making slides to designing real curriculum?

A slide deck and a curriculum can look alike and do completely different jobs. Slides carry information. Curriculum changes what a person can do. Feeling the distance between the two is not a failing; it is the moment you start becoming a real designer. The shift is this: stop asking what you want to say and start asking what the learner should be able to do. A deck is organized around your points. Curriculum is organized around their growth, with practice, feedback, and a clear path from where they start to where they need to be. The content serves the learner, not the slides. Start small. Take one deck you have made and rebuild it around a single thing the learner should be able to do by the end. Add a place for them to try it and get feedback. Do that once, honestly, and you will feel curriculum design stop being a mystery.