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.

Presentation Design 101: Hottest Design Trends to Keep Your Slides Fresh | The Beautiful Blog

Presentations have come a long way people: Gone are the days of special effects, gifs, and bullet list fatigue. We’ve also waved goodbye to ClipArt; s...

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

3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

Ever wish you felt like creating that presentation? Felt like doing that research? Felt like doing the dishes?

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

Buttons, Blenders, and Coordination

Framing effects make a big difference

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

GUIDE FOR PITCHING TO PUBLISHERS - Chucklefish

Hello and welcome! Whether you’re a hobbyist tinkering with a game idea in your free time or an experienced developer whose decided to work on their own IP, if you’re planning on approaching a publisher, we’ve developed this guide to help. We’ve seen a lot of pitches in our time in the indie publishing scene, and we often see pitches that don’t show what the developers are aiming for in the best way they can. Your Pitch should be the conversation starter needed to grab a Publisher’s attention. Nothing is going to sell your game as well as the game […]

The Art of Slide Design

Note: These are the slides from my DevRelCon Tokyo talk from July 29th. I've started writing this up as a blog post on MissGeeky.com: https://missgeeky.…

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