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veen  ·  2846 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 27, 2017

>has 18pt font on multiple slides...

Good point. I like your concept of builds - it's useful to approach presentation styles as UX design problems. I already do it sometimes but I don't think I am very good at pausing. Usually, I say something along the lines of "...and that leads me to...[click]...eh,...this next slide. [small pause]

A part of my degree was a long series of company visits. Usually, they'd ask us students to divide in smaller groups, work on a small case study and present the results after an hour of giving it some thought. While others were thinking of excuses not to present, I usually didn't mind the practice and I ended up refining the bullet-point-method along the way. In high school I was deathly afraid of giving presentations, but now I'm comfortable giving presentations to small and medium sized groups and sometimes get compliments for it.

What I don't know is how I can move on from here. How do I continue improving my presentation skills? What are some of the lessons you've learned more recently?