Presenting Your Design Work: Designing Your Project Story From Start to Finish

Have you ever gone into a design presentation and lost complete control of the direction of the conversation? Or the feedback you’re receiving isn’t quite what you’re looking for? This class will help you craft your design presentation for interviews, critiques, and product or design reviews. This class will cover problem framing, narrative, style, and engagement, and it will help you architect and design a presentation that you can modify for multiple scenarios.

This class is for product designers and UI/UX designers who desire to have clear, concise, and effective presentations of their design work at different stages of the design process as well as for different audiences. There’s no experience required, but it is helpful to have a project—even a small one—to use for the lessons.

Materials Needed: 

A presentation program like Keynote, PowerPoint, or Google Slides are free and effective tools to create your presentation.

• Introduction
• Defining the Problem: Crafting a Problem Statement
• Defining the Problem: Evaluating a User Need
• Defining the Problem: Defining Success Metrics
• Crafting Your Process Flow: Putting Together an Outline
• Crafting Your Process Flow: Collecting Process Steps
• Crafting Your Process Flow: Polishing Your Story
• Designing Your Deck: Determining and Applying Style
• Preparing for Speaking: Capturing Your Speaking Notes
• Preparing for Speaking: Preparing For Engagement
• Preparing for Speaking: Review And Practice