{"id":1322,"date":"2013-10-07T07:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T03:31:39","slug":"kathy-sierra-on-presentation-skills-i-am-just-a-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/kathy-sierra-on-presentation-skills-i-am-just-a-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Sierra on presentation skills: &#8220;I am just a UI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Sierra nails it again in her latest blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/seriouspony.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/4\/presentation-skills-considered-harmful\">&#8220;Presentation Skills Considered Harmful&#8221;.<\/a>\u00a0 She makes the most awesome point that focusing too much on your presentation <em>skills<\/em>, and not about why your audience wants to see your presentation, means that you&#8217;re focusing on the wrong thing. \u00a0Focus on your audience and what they will take away.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to pick out one quote, so I&#8217;ll go with this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you design for a user experience, you quit focusing on\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0skills and start focusing on\u00a0<em>their\u00a0<\/em>skills. What experience can you help them have? Can you give them a more\u00a0<em><strong>powerful perspective<\/strong><\/em>? Can you give them a<em><strong>\u00a0new idea with immediate implementation<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0steps they can&#8217;t wait to work on? Can you give them a clear way to finally\u00a0<em><strong>explain something to others that they&#8217;ve been feeling but could not articulate<\/strong><\/em>? Can you give them a\u00a0<em><strong>new tip or trick<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0that has\u00a0<em><strong>such a high-payoff it feels like a superpower<\/strong><\/em>? Can you give them\u00a0<em><strong>knowledge and insight into a tough topic, so<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong>they can\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>have more interesting, high-resolution conversations in the hallway<\/strong>?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might need to improve your presentation skills or style so that your audience can focus on the important message of the presentation. \u00a0She puts it this way: &#8220;I am a UI. \u00a0Nothing more. \u00a0And what\u2019s a key attribute of a good UI? \u00a0It disappears.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Sierra nails it again in her latest blog post &#8220;Presentation Skills Considered Harmful&#8221;.\u00a0 She makes the most awesome point that focusing too much on your presentation skills, and not about why your audience wants to see your presentation, means that you&#8217;re focusing on the wrong thing. \u00a0Focus on your audience and what they will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/kathy-sierra-on-presentation-skills-i-am-just-a-ui\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kathy Sierra on presentation skills: &#8220;I am just a UI&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}