Resumes, Portfolios, and Networking can be a daunting task for design professionals. In this presentation, I break down how you can do all three of them better.
With more people building their own blogs, learn how to create more usable blogs and content for your audience. We will review 10 usability guidelines to help you create and manage your blog.
As a designer, you will have to go through rough times. In this presentation, I review how you can get through those rough times by avoiding the seven deadly sins that appear in Design Hell.
Designing for Awareness in the Attention EconomyBrian Sullivan
Your customers have a finite set of awareness as they are trying to sift through competing messages in multiple channels. Marketers and designers that understand the various levels of human attention and how you can design more effectively for attention will reach their audience.
Taylor Cowan and Brian Sullivan presented this presentation at SxSW 2012 to a standing room only crowd.
Resumes, Portfolios, and Networking can be a daunting task for design professionals. In this presentation, I break down how you can do all three of them better.
With more people building their own blogs, learn how to create more usable blogs and content for your audience. We will review 10 usability guidelines to help you create and manage your blog.
As a designer, you will have to go through rough times. In this presentation, I review how you can get through those rough times by avoiding the seven deadly sins that appear in Design Hell.
Designing for Awareness in the Attention EconomyBrian Sullivan
Your customers have a finite set of awareness as they are trying to sift through competing messages in multiple channels. Marketers and designers that understand the various levels of human attention and how you can design more effectively for attention will reach their audience.
Taylor Cowan and Brian Sullivan presented this presentation at SxSW 2012 to a standing room only crowd.
Don't worry about the number of slides in your PowerPoint presentation. Make good slides with the audience in mind. Start by just splitting out your text. Then, look at other SlideShare lessons on great presentation design. After all this is a one-slide presentation across 37 slides.
You can create contagious content, if you understand what make things go viral online. In this presentation, I will share three stories I wrote that went viral online. I will share some secrets I learned along the way, too.
SlideShare is the world’s largest professional content sharing community. However it is often overlooked and underused by marketers. This takes you through the elements of designing and promoting an effective slidedeck for your next presentation.
Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly VirtuesBrian Sullivan
People usually remember the seven deadly sins, but they forget the seven Heavenly virtues. The seven virtues actually deflate the seven sins. It is about balance with your family, friends, and work. Enjoy.
A Guide to Powerful Presentations: Become a Better Speaker in 5 StepsDidit Communications
Many professionals in various industries are asked to present in front of an audience. Whether it be a pitch, a presentation, or a speaking engagement, presenting can be nerve wracking for many individuals. Vice President of PR, Liz Burke, shares her top tips for becoming a better public speaker.
Updated!
Don't murder your message with 19 year old clip art, garish colour schemes, whizzing text and abusive sounds, and line after line of tiny text that the speaker reads and the audience can't see - captivate your audience Ninja style! This session will go through the easy steps how to liven up any presentation by dumping the templates, embracing dramatic graphics with Creative Commons, and limiting the number of words per slide to create a truly engaging presentation slidedeck. Zing! Ninja style, now your presentation makes people lean forward...and are eager for your message. Become a presentation a sensei! - This is also a great way to demand that your students synthesize their information and refine their skillz to become the next generation of presentation Ninjas!
Propoint is a NYC creative studio that leads the market in presentation design. Our talented team follows these simple rules to create best in class presentations for the world's most popular brands.
Here is a SlideShare to show how you too can build an awesome presentation that will get the audience to focus on what's important.
In this talk, you will learn about five sketching secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci, four rules for generating ideas, and four rules for refining ideas. I call these lessons from Leonardo. You might find a few stories about Leonardo Da Vinci that you did not know.
Listen to audio at:
https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/design-like-davinci-leonardos
Produce Like Picasso: Mastering Design Delivery #sxswBrian Sullivan
Audio available at: https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/produce-like-picasso-mastering
Pablo Picasso was a prolific artist. He produced over 147,800 pieces of art, which equates to delivering seven finished pieces of art each day of his career. Picasso also delivered in different mediums: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, architecture, and more. What was Picasso’s mindset? What methods did he use? How did Picasso move from concept to production so quickly?
In this talk, you will learn how to produce Picasso and avoid the pitfalls of production. We will review Picasso's production principles with examples from his life. By applying the principles of Picasso, designers can create more effectively and quickly.
This is a follow-up to Design Like da Vinci:
http://www.slideshare.net/bunky34/design-like-davinci-sxsw-2013
6 Body Language Mistakes You May Be Making24Slides
Body language is an important communication factor. When doing a presentation, your facial expression, gestures and other body movements should be consistent with your verbal message to get a positive feedback from your audience.
Extreme Collaboration: Getting Stuff Done with People You Don't Trust, Respec...Brian Sullivan
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Executive leaders speak a different language. In these slides, I review how to structure your slides to maximize their impact. Plus, I give tips for overcoming resistance and how to structure your stories.
The secret to success in the gig economy is to successfully onboard customers and employees. Gig customers want a quick.seamless way to get into a marketplace in the gig/share economy. Workers in the gig economy want to be quickly onboarded, so they can start performing right away.
Mapping Experiences for Product InnovationBrian Sullivan
Product innovation requires a thorough understanding of how an experience works (or does not work) for a customer. It is important to understand the person and their journey. In this presentation, I share with you my thoughts on personas and jounrey maps.
When you look at the greatest design thinkers in history, you will see that they all worked in a deliberate fashion. They would research, practice, and network in a deliberate and calculated fashion. These slides show how Pablo Picasso, Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Sherry Turkle perform deliberate research, deliberate practice, and deliberate networking.
Top 20 Things Successful People Do All the TimeBrian Sullivan
Successful people have a certain mindset. They develop specific habits to tackle problems and everyday life. After 50 years and many hard lessons, I decided to share 20 things successful people in my life have done.
Don't worry about the number of slides in your PowerPoint presentation. Make good slides with the audience in mind. Start by just splitting out your text. Then, look at other SlideShare lessons on great presentation design. After all this is a one-slide presentation across 37 slides.
You can create contagious content, if you understand what make things go viral online. In this presentation, I will share three stories I wrote that went viral online. I will share some secrets I learned along the way, too.
SlideShare is the world’s largest professional content sharing community. However it is often overlooked and underused by marketers. This takes you through the elements of designing and promoting an effective slidedeck for your next presentation.
Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly VirtuesBrian Sullivan
People usually remember the seven deadly sins, but they forget the seven Heavenly virtues. The seven virtues actually deflate the seven sins. It is about balance with your family, friends, and work. Enjoy.
A Guide to Powerful Presentations: Become a Better Speaker in 5 StepsDidit Communications
Many professionals in various industries are asked to present in front of an audience. Whether it be a pitch, a presentation, or a speaking engagement, presenting can be nerve wracking for many individuals. Vice President of PR, Liz Burke, shares her top tips for becoming a better public speaker.
Updated!
Don't murder your message with 19 year old clip art, garish colour schemes, whizzing text and abusive sounds, and line after line of tiny text that the speaker reads and the audience can't see - captivate your audience Ninja style! This session will go through the easy steps how to liven up any presentation by dumping the templates, embracing dramatic graphics with Creative Commons, and limiting the number of words per slide to create a truly engaging presentation slidedeck. Zing! Ninja style, now your presentation makes people lean forward...and are eager for your message. Become a presentation a sensei! - This is also a great way to demand that your students synthesize their information and refine their skillz to become the next generation of presentation Ninjas!
Propoint is a NYC creative studio that leads the market in presentation design. Our talented team follows these simple rules to create best in class presentations for the world's most popular brands.
Here is a SlideShare to show how you too can build an awesome presentation that will get the audience to focus on what's important.
In this talk, you will learn about five sketching secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci, four rules for generating ideas, and four rules for refining ideas. I call these lessons from Leonardo. You might find a few stories about Leonardo Da Vinci that you did not know.
Listen to audio at:
https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/design-like-davinci-leonardos
Produce Like Picasso: Mastering Design Delivery #sxswBrian Sullivan
Audio available at: https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/produce-like-picasso-mastering
Pablo Picasso was a prolific artist. He produced over 147,800 pieces of art, which equates to delivering seven finished pieces of art each day of his career. Picasso also delivered in different mediums: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, architecture, and more. What was Picasso’s mindset? What methods did he use? How did Picasso move from concept to production so quickly?
In this talk, you will learn how to produce Picasso and avoid the pitfalls of production. We will review Picasso's production principles with examples from his life. By applying the principles of Picasso, designers can create more effectively and quickly.
This is a follow-up to Design Like da Vinci:
http://www.slideshare.net/bunky34/design-like-davinci-sxsw-2013
6 Body Language Mistakes You May Be Making24Slides
Body language is an important communication factor. When doing a presentation, your facial expression, gestures and other body movements should be consistent with your verbal message to get a positive feedback from your audience.
Extreme Collaboration: Getting Stuff Done with People You Don't Trust, Respec...Brian Sullivan
Imagine you need to get a project done with someone that you do not trust, respect, or like. In this talk, I break down how you can work with almost anyone.
Executive leaders speak a different language. In these slides, I review how to structure your slides to maximize their impact. Plus, I give tips for overcoming resistance and how to structure your stories.
The secret to success in the gig economy is to successfully onboard customers and employees. Gig customers want a quick.seamless way to get into a marketplace in the gig/share economy. Workers in the gig economy want to be quickly onboarded, so they can start performing right away.
Mapping Experiences for Product InnovationBrian Sullivan
Product innovation requires a thorough understanding of how an experience works (or does not work) for a customer. It is important to understand the person and their journey. In this presentation, I share with you my thoughts on personas and jounrey maps.
When you look at the greatest design thinkers in history, you will see that they all worked in a deliberate fashion. They would research, practice, and network in a deliberate and calculated fashion. These slides show how Pablo Picasso, Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Sherry Turkle perform deliberate research, deliberate practice, and deliberate networking.
Top 20 Things Successful People Do All the TimeBrian Sullivan
Successful people have a certain mindset. They develop specific habits to tackle problems and everyday life. After 50 years and many hard lessons, I decided to share 20 things successful people in my life have done.
Pixel Perfect: Strategies for Overcoming PerfectionismBrian Sullivan
We work, live, and play with perfectionists. Yet, we do not know what really makes them tick. In this presentation, you will learn how to overcome the different barriers produced by perfectionists and coping strategies for dealing with them.
I work with alot of web designers, who continually talk about pixel perfect designs and bulletproof work. The presentation is based upon the works of Donna Hicks and Brene Brown. It was given as a workshop at SxSW 2015 by Brian Sullivan and J. Schuh.
12. Tip #1: Conference Organizers skip bad titles
Hello, my name is Brian Sullivan. Call me “Sully”.
I organize the Big Design Conference with my friends.
We use your talk title to:
- Accept your proposal
- Market your talk
- Sell conference tickets
- Tweet about your session
If we read a boring conference title, we don’t pick the
speaker. We skip bad titles.
19. It’s Sully, again.
Great titles are not enough. Conference organizers
want great descriptions, too. We use them to:
- Better understand your conference proposal
- Review your thought processes
- Check for originality and tone of voice
- Verify your talk is a match to the audience
Write meaningful descriptions to help me choose you.
Tip #6: Organizers Use TALK descriptions.
21. Tip #8: Add Your learning objectives.
People really do want to
learn from experts.
22. Tip #9: use inverted pyramid style.
Headline
Problems
Lessons
EndIn the end, your audience will better
understand how to solve a problem.
Headlines grab their
attention.
Lessons explain how your
talk will solve the problems.
Problems give them
something to think about.
23. Attendees use descriptions to justify the costs
of conference expenses to their boss.
Tip #10: descriptions used To Justify Costs.
26. It’s Sully, again.
Contrary to popular belief, conference organizers do
not know everyone. We use bios to:
- Verify your expertise
- Check out your past speaking gigs
- Review previous slides
- Help us to market you
People come to see cool speakers. Bios help us alot.
Tip #11: Organizers don’t know everyone.
27. Super speakers include conference
talks in their LinkedIn bios.
Tip #12: organizers review linkedin bios.
28. Write a bio for people who don’t
know you. Keep it short, too.
Tip #13: write a short bio for your intros.
29. The conference site needs
a longer bio.
Tip #14: write another bio for The site.
33. Do you like my shades?
Conference organizers want high-quality speakers.
Credibility is important. We use credibility to:
- Create an awesome conference experience
- Generate buzz before the event
- Market you (and your talk)
- Build up the conference brand
Your credibility helps get you accepted!
Tip #16: Organizers LOVE Speaker credibility.
34. Provide links to other talks and
Slideshare, too.
Tip #17: Show Your Past presentations.
35. If possible, provide a sound or
video recording.
Tip #18: Let People Watch or hear you.
36. Social media behavior matters.
Build credibility online.
Tip #19: Point people to your website.
37. Social media behavior matters.
It builds credibility online.
Tip #20: use social media to build credibility.
Bad social media behavior can
also cost you speaking opportunities.
40. I love speakers that market their own talks. As a
conference organizer, it should not just fall on me.
Your early marketing will help you to:
- Stand out from other presenters
- Generate early buzz on your topic
- Get attendees excited about your talk
- Sell your proposal topic to other people
It helps out conference organizers, too.
Tip #21: super speakers are smart marketers.
41. Market early with a blog post.
Present later, as a follow-up.
Tip #22: write an early Blog Post.
I published two LinkedIn Pulse articles
before speaking at SxSW this year.
42. Test drive your content at a
meetup. It builds momentum.
Tip #23: speak at a meetup.
43. Send short surveys to fine-tune content.
It is early market research, too.
Tip #24: Survey your peers.
44. Ask a question, reply to comments,
or take polls in online forums.
Tip #25: reply to online forums.
People give you advise and critique
more openly in online forums.
47. 1. Your title is a separate writing task
2. Descriptions are a different writing task
3. Create a multi-channel bio
4. increase Your credibility in proposals
5. Market Your proposals Early
amazing secrets of conference proposals
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