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Tips for Tech Demos
Created by Michael Lossos
Copyright 2011 Points International, Ltd.
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Overview
• Example Demo• Always...• Logistics
o Beforeo Duringo After
• Content• UX• Q&A
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Always Be:
• Focused
• Prepared
• Concise
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Insert Disk 2 To Continue...
DEMO
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Logistics: Before Your Demo
• Prepare content • Ask for feedback
• Have someone else drive
• Script it
• Practice
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Logistics: Before Your Demo (2)
• Do a Dry Runo in the real demo environment!
• Have a backup plan
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Logistics: During Your Demo
• Minimize typingo auto/pre fill
• Time box
o short attention span
• Don't be nervous
o audience = human
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Logistics: After Your Demo
• Ask for feedbacko audience Q&Ao high value individuals: users?
investors? stakeholders?
• Open feedback
o your contact info o email, phone, etc.
• Send content
o slideshare.net o live demo link?
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Demo Content
• What's your demo's purpose?
• Your own goal?
• Expected outcome?o within reason
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Demo Content (2)
• Toneo serious, light, excited,
informative...?
• Tell a story
• Incorporate a theme
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Demo Content (3) - Public Speaking
• Speak loud and clear • Pause appropriately
o audience needs to breathe
• Short and sweet
o don't make the audience swim through a veritable moat of words to reach the point of what you're trying to convey to them
o ^ not like thato apt
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Demo Content (4) - Public Speaking
• Learn moreo books o google ito youtubeo classes
• Practice
o with coworkers, friends, etc.
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UX - User Experience Matters
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UX - User Experience Matters (2)
• Visuals & UI Mattero but could be distracting
• UX Matters
o but defer polish
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UX - Where to Find?
• Borrow a UXo base yours on an existing
good oneo wary inventing a new one
• Mock it
o who cares what's under
the hood
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Finally...
• Focused
• Prepared
• Concise
Always be...
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Resources
• Read HN and other tech incubators' sites: o Applicants demo all the timeo http://bit.ly/tdDhSz
• Watch TED demos, Apple product unveiling demos, etc.
• Source code for this talk's demo:
o https://github.com/michaellossos/nerffinder
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Q&A
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