Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations

• Tell a story instead of explaining the process.

• Only focus on one idea per slide. Don’t confuse what you’re saying by having busy slides. Use one bold sentence per slide. Instead of paragraphs of text.

• Use presenter notes as a script for your speech. Let the image/mockups paint the picture of what you’re saying in the background.

• Rehearse your

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Take the humble “document” as an example. For decades, document editing programs like word processors effectively emulated a printed sheet of paper, onto which the user typed with an emulated typewriter. Other software tools like spreadsheets did better, managing to escape complete skeuomorphism in favor of an infinite canvas. Notion is another goo... See more

Primer on how we design at @linear: The main point is that the design is only a reference, never any kind of deliverable itself, so the way it's constructed doesn't really matter. 1. We screenshot the app and design on top of 2. Simple design system that has mostly colors, type and some basic components (rest you can screenshot/recreate) 3. We ... See more