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Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers
Episode 93
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
Description
This week's episode is with Chris Abad who has led design teams at companies like Google, Square and Dropbox so needless to say he's given a lot of design presentations over his 20+ year career.
So this conversation is a deep dive into storytelling and everything you can do as a designer to effectively share your vision and persuade stakeholders.
He shares every step of his process including a ton of practical tactics like:
- Strategies for designing a great deck
- How to set up Q&A for success with executives
- His new secret weapon software tool for storytelling
- Strategies for navigating pushback from stakeholders
- How to frame the “Peak Moment” of your presentation
- How he coaches designers to leverage storytelling in their portfolio
- a lot more
⭐ Don’t forget you can also save $100 on Chris’s Design Storytelling course using the code DIVECLUB
- Chris mentions the importance of the Story10x book
- IA Presenter is the new tool Chris uses for presentations
- Ridd uses SuperWhisper for transcriptions