Today another ‘Casual Friday Slide deck’ about ‘death by powerpoint’. Right now, someone out there is actually dying from a boring presentation. A presentation should move & inspire people don’t bore your audience, gore them! Today all the tools are available to create a beautifully designed presentation and most are free! So please, lets stop designing presentations like its 1999. There’s an art to putting together a solid presentation and Jesse Desjardins shows how!

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Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and web services for over 15 years. He revealed his design secrets at UX Australia 2010. Nobody in the UX field is showing their work or the process behind their work out in the open. It’s time to pull back the kimono and show stuff. This slide deck will provide a step-by-step behind the scenes look at the design process behind redesigning lend4health.com—starting with research, working through interaction design/prototyping and finishing with visual design.

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A slide deck from a talk Joshua Porter gave at Delve. The presentation is divided into three parts, with each part focusing on a specific problem in software. Each problem is a major hurdle in the usage lifecycle, or the stages people go through as they use and adopt software over time. These three hurdles come directly out of the work Joshua faces in his work with his clients. Informative view that is well suited for website design and conversion optimization as well.

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Brand Science Institute is a think-tank focused on brand and consumer management. The organization carried out a fairly extensive study on corporate social media projects over the past 7 months. Focus point of the research was a desire to understand why (most) social media projects tend to be utter failures. BSI questioned 560+ marketers representing 52 brands from some of the largest companies across 12 European countries, and poured the end results in the slide deck below.

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Rocket Scientist Nick Skytland works with NASA. And like every other company NASA has quit some difficulties attracting talented new staff. Because NASA leans big time on their software (which company doesn’t these days) the organization is specifically looking for ‘Digital Natives’, the generation of Nerds that grew up in the digital ages. In this slide deck Nick shows his colleagues at NASA what’s so different about this ‘new generation’ and how the organization can contact this group by the means of Social Media.

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