Ben Sauer - Presenting High-Stakes Design Work

Ben Sauer shares why designers need to be better presenters, how to keep stakeholders awake and engaged, and what to do when disaster inevitably strikes.

Highlights include:

• Is how design is presented more important than the design itself?
• How do you help stakeholders to relate more powerfully to design work?
• What is the Goldilocks Zone and how can designer’s find it quickly?
• Why can it be useful to show stakeholders design work bit-by-bit?
• How do you deal with difficult people when presenting design work?

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Who is Ben Sauer?

Ben is an independent product and design strategist, coach, and trainer, helping companies to craft the vision for their products, and to inspire better internal processes and practices.

Drawing on over 20 years of experience, he has written and spoken about strategic storytelling, voice UI design, and how slowing down can help organisations to speed up. And his insights have been put to use at organisations such as NASA, Amazon and the BBC.

Ben’s most recent mission is helping designers to become more influential by becoming more confident communicators of their work. That’s why he’s recently published a book called “Death by Screens”, a practical how-to guide for presenting high stakes design work.

Before becoming an independent consultant, Ben worked at Babylon Health, where he was first a Director of Design and then a Director of Product. There, he led a large team of over 100 designers, clinicians, data scientists and engineers.

He has also been a Senior UX Designer at Clearleft, the world-renowned and perhaps first UX design consultancy in the United Kingdom.

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Find Ben here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bensauer/
Website: https://bensauer.net/
X: https://twitter.com/bensauer

Death By Screens: How to Present High-Stakes Digital Design Work and Live to Tell the Tale - 
https://bensauer.net/deathbyscreens/

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