Three Presentation Styles

Making Slides

I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you might want to show people. So the things I’ll talk about and especially the specific techniques I’ll discuss are selected from many good ways to present yourself and your work. Presenting is a two-sided process, where you should be comfortable with what you are saying (and how you’re saying it), on one side, and where your audience should be able to follow along and understand your message, on the other.

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.

Every week, thousands of founders open Canva or Google Slides or, God help them, PowerPoint, and begin the ritual. They agonize over fonts, nudge logos three pixels to the left and workshop whether the TAM slide should come before or after the team slide, as though the ordering of these

Inside Design Tokens: Theming

Theming in Design Systems is a de-facto standard way to exchange the look-and-feel of your product. There is a high divergence of what is a theme? What does it consist of? Which constraints exists when building a theme? When and what to use a theme for?

Faces: Interactive Presentations

Create interactive, explorable decks that truly deliver

Design Strategies

Draw a card to spark creative thinking

The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication

A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication

Write the Pitch | Shape Up

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Getting Started Making Music | Notion

There are four elements of formula you need to make music.

Alpaca Conference

Alpaca conference will feature 35 speakers and workshop leaders exploring algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, showcasing pattern-based work across music, textiles, dance and more.

On power, aesthetics, materiality and change in data visualization

Notes from the Information+ Conference at MIT/Northeastern University, Boston.