Focus Talk

Death by Screens – How to Present High Stakes Design Work

Session Type

Focus Talk

When

Thursday

19 Oct

at

15:30

Room

Main stage

About the Session

The secret isn’t what you say about the design, it’s the story around it. In this talk, Ben will teach you the less obvious parts of preparing a design presentation: what to say, what to show, in what order, how to do it with confidence, and how to have productive conversations with stakeholders.

About the Speaker

Ben Sauer

Design Strategist, Author

Ben Sauer is a product and design leader, author, and speaker. He worked at Clearleft and Babylon Health, and advised organisations like the BBC, Pearson, Tesco, and TCS in how to raise their product game.

His most recent book is 'Death by Screens: how to present high-stakes digital design work and live to tell the tale', and he's trained designers around the world in methods from the book.

Teams at Amazon and the BBC have used his methods of conversation design, and through O'Reilly, he's trained folks at NASA.

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