Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers
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This week's episode is with Chris Abad) who has led design teams at companies like Google, Square and Dropbox so needless to say he's given a lot of design presentations over his 20+ year career.

So this conversation is a deep dive into storytelling and everything you can do as a designer to effectively share your vision and persuade stakeholders.

He shares every step of his process including a ton of practical tactics like:

• Strategies for designing a great deck
• How to set up Q&A for success with executives
• His new secret weapon software tool for storytelling
• Strategies for navigating pushback from stakeholders
• How to frame the “Peak Moment” of your presentation
• How he coaches designers to leverage storytelling in their portfolio
• a lot more

⭐ Don’t forget you can also save $100 on Chris’s Design Storytelling course) using the code DIVECLUB

• Chris mentions the importance of the Story10x) book
• IA Presenter) is the new tool Chris uses for presentations
• Ridd uses SuperWhisper) for transcriptions