 from the pandemic ashes rises the phoenix of all events so these are the typical steps that i would go through just couldn't be fucked a very surprising feedback was i really love his ah shit a little bit nervous oh my god this is amazing that's how you plan and execute on a conference oh i think that made my day really and action i'm speaking at a conference so what am i going to do if you've never done a public speaking event before it might be hard to figure out where to start how do you prepare your material make sure your slides are good what goes into the planning process i will hopefully shed light on how you actually plan to speak at a conference what sort of process i go through here's what i'm going to do first thing is first let's do some planning i was working on something else we want to first think about personas who is the audience that we want to cater to and what do we know about them what kind of language do we use and what sort of information will they find useful personas done then brainstorming about topics how do we then map their needs to what we know about the subject we want to talk about i wrote brainstorming brainstorming done how do we then group that together to make sure it's more coherent and then our different ideas can start to form their shape and maybe tell a narrative affinity diagram done and of course research what existing literature is out there what is in the wild that we can then use to make our content a bit more concise but also do a quick little poll on facebook to see what our users want and that will then map back to our personas to validate if they are correct or research done then all that information will help us write our article i want to do this step because i feel like the talk is not long enough for us to really deep dive into some of these areas and then what we need to do is just trim down and then actually give that presentation article finally done i haven't done a conference in a while so i want to refresh my memory in terms of best practices when you're giving a presentation what effective presentations in terms of visuals can help guide the audience through best practices done after that actually create the slides and create the visual assets boy this took ages slides done and i want to do a couple of dry runs and iterating on those dry runs is very very important of course holy shit 100 slides so i'm about to do my first dry run and if you don't know what a dry run is it's basically a practice run to simulate the real environment of your presentation and the reason i like to do this is because you can help iron out the kinks of your presentation it's good for getting feedback and see if it works if the message came across and also the pace of delivery so you get warmed up on the content maybe you're saying too many filler words we don't have the luxury of cutting every time like on camera a little bit nervous hopefully it goes good and action hi everyone thanks for joining i present the ux getting started guide and good luck thank you i just finished my first dry run and i done it went well from 39 minutes i got it down to 33 minutes but i got some really good feedback i want to share some of these with you guys and of course i've written them down i had feedback about content so leaving out different parts or condensing different parts feedback about the flow how one section flows to another section so make that a bit more natural and then finally a very surprising feedback was actually be more crisp so uh but overall that went great i'm ready to now iterate tomorrow i actually have another dry run with the organizers to make sure i'm on top form today's dry run number two dry runs and iterations done presentation all right presentations ah shit it's tomorrow excited for tomorrow anyway conference day today's the day everything has been culminating to today let's get today started first of course coffee the setup the mic laptop and another screen for slack or any troubleshooting issues of the event yeah i'm kind of nervous nervous welcome back let's welcome christmas to our stage hey are we live so i just want to dive straight in if that's okay with you shan and thanks for the introduction okay here we go so if this all sounds interesting to you i present to you guys the ux getting started guide six simple steps to get you started in user experience design good luck and thank you hello hello we're now welcome our two panelists oh my god tell you a story yet again sorry i'm full of stories because i'm an old man holy shit oh christ is amazing like bruce lee says if you want to learn to swim get in the water okay the last and very crucial step is the final feedback round which we call debrief i'm gonna just go through the comments and i'll be recording them and giving you guys my reaction oh someone said i really love his presentation oh yeah your voice sounds great oh thank you love the use of emojis you're done no great presentation great great she wrote it three times love your talk easy for approach easy come on ux i asked the question why is chris so handsome and i tricked the host into asking that question this is amazing chris why are you so handsome oh this is my dude overwhelming amount of thank yous and i appreciate y'all and i'm glad it's useful i'm so happy okay so this is what i did right just scrolling the comments as you do and it's like it's like dinnertime or whatever so someone says dinner i go send foods not nudes and then everyone's just like getting in on it and then the ad mid goes i'm sending you the code of conduct asap the head of design at grab has this crazy moustache so my question was does having moustache improve design leadership skills 11 lights that's oh god he's gonna ask it this question is blowing up but dude moustache guy i'm sorry i did it again this guy doesn't have a moustache oh god this is too fun this is koi vin a world famous designer that's vietnamese leadership positions in new york times and a bunch of startups he's built by himself and other co-founders currently he's a senior director of product design at adobe so basically he's hot shit this is my question to him presentation done debrief done done fuck it's now 10 p.m and the day is finished it was a great success everybody was so awesome and i had a lot of fun the event organizers were amazing uh can't say thank you to them enough for being a part of this my actual talk and panel discussion will be linked down below but this is really just uh behind the scenes the whole planning of it and also using design thinking just to help you prepare for your next conference so i guess i'm gonna leave you guys with this and uh follow me on youtube yes please jay