Amazing flickr talk by Cal Henderson at the Future of Web Apps SF06
I wish my battery on my DV hadn't run out this morning. I would love to get hold of a video off his talk. He was lucid, he was witty - he was British so sarcasm's like breathing for those people.
I and a small contingent at Work are trying to divest ourselves and all the corporate presentations of damned clip art. It is evil and tortures small kittens.
We have made some progress removing it from a couple of talks prepped for our senior management team recently.
Cal Henderson just gave a presentation about "Taking flickr from Beta to Gamma" apparently that is an internal flickr joke. His presentation was very interesting, even so far as saying "Beautiful code isn't important" which supprised me, I have a fetish for making my code nice and neat. I don't always achieve it but then I stress about not doing it. His tip is, it is simple not important. Get your product working and get on with the next small step.
He suggests that all the increments should be small. He sited many reasons for this, less likely to bust something, less likely to go in the wrong direction because your client feedback will be swift.
However aside from the great talk, so good I'm blogging it rather than eating food, one of the best lectures over the past two days. His visuals did all the stuff Presentation Zen tells you to. They supported his dialog, with only a couple of words on each slide, bar one.
Behind each word / phrase which was surrounded by actually a lurid Yahoo! purple box. Each slide was adorned with a picture (obviosuly from flickr) that correlated to his slide. Except two.
On those two he couldn't think of an acceptable picture that displayed what he was getting at, then he used a picture of a kitten. A quirkyness.
I and a small contingent at Work are trying to divest ourselves and all the corporate presentations of damned clip art. It is evil and tortures small kittens.
We have made some progress removing it from a couple of talks prepped for our senior management team recently.
Cal Henderson just gave a presentation about "Taking flickr from Beta to Gamma" apparently that is an internal flickr joke. His presentation was very interesting, even so far as saying "Beautiful code isn't important" which supprised me, I have a fetish for making my code nice and neat. I don't always achieve it but then I stress about not doing it. His tip is, it is simple not important. Get your product working and get on with the next small step.
He suggests that all the increments should be small. He sited many reasons for this, less likely to bust something, less likely to go in the wrong direction because your client feedback will be swift.
However aside from the great talk, so good I'm blogging it rather than eating food, one of the best lectures over the past two days. His visuals did all the stuff Presentation Zen tells you to. They supported his dialog, with only a couple of words on each slide, bar one.
Behind each word / phrase which was surrounded by actually a lurid Yahoo! purple box. Each slide was adorned with a picture (obviosuly from flickr) that correlated to his slide. Except two.
On those two he couldn't think of an acceptable picture that displayed what he was getting at, then he used a picture of a kitten. A quirkyness.
posted by M at 8:58 PM
2 Comments:
While you were away, someone put all the clip art back in the presentations.
:D
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