Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers

Dive Club šŸ¤æ - A podcast by Ridd

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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 deckHow to set up Q&A for success with executivesHis new secret weapon software tool for storytellingStrategies for navigating pushback from stakeholdersHow to frame the ā€œPeak Momentā€ of your presentationHow he coaches designers to leverage storytelling in their portfolioa lot moreā­ Donā€™t forget you can also save $100 on Chrisā€™s Design Storytelling course using the code DIVECLUBChris mentions the importance of the Story10x bookIA Presenter is the new tool Chris uses for presentationsRidd uses SuperWhisper for transcriptions