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I often call into meetings where I am also presenting twice. Once on my phone and once from my computer. I use my computer for sharing, audio, video, etc. I use

I often call into meetings where I am also presenting twice. Once on my phone and once from my computer. I use my computer for sharing, audio, video, etc. I use my phone to see what the other people see. Shared screens are always difficult to predict. If you have a 4K screen, it will almost always get downsampled somehow for meetings… it can be too slow otherwise. In my experience, the problem isn’t that the font is too small on your device, but rather that you’re sharing too much screen. Even if I’m sharing a terminal window (common for me), instead of changing the font, I try to make the window smaller. This has the same effect and is much easier to control. On the viewing device, the video you send it always scaled (either for a different resolution or viewport size), so it helps to limit the size of the screen/window that you’re sharing. Telling viewers to zoom in if they can’t read anything sounds like you’re blaming them for the problem. If you have a different device connected, you might be in a better position to find a solution on your end.

eastbound 2y ago
+1 to learning how to share a window, doing it fast when you’re changing windows, and reducing the size of the window. It shows that you care for the audience.
- deathanatos 2y ago
  The UX for window sharing is just too crappy for this suggestion. I do this, and the single hardest part is locating the window in the list of windows to share. Combine that with a workflow that involves 2 or more windows (e.g., switching between a terminal & a browser … or just wanting to display them both at the same time¹), and it's not really workable. ¹… and while there's no technical reason I couldn't share two windows … there's no support for it.
  - eastbound 2y ago
    No really: Learn this UX to share your screen. - The last window is always suggested FIRST when sharing, - Learn what to look at: Look at the appearance of your browser window before you go click Share my screen. The second will provide a visual confirmation that you’re clicking the right button. Don’t pass as a boomer when you can be a Millennial!
    - deathanatos 2y ago
      > - The last window is always suggested FIRST when sharing, It most definitely isn't. (I just checked, just to humor you.) > - Learn what to look at: Look at the appearance of your browser window before you go click Share my screen. I'm often staring at it the window I intend to share as I'm going through the list so as to be able to find it. I don't think it's as useful as you think it is. > Don’t pass as a boomer when you can be a Millennial! … right … You're probably making some assumptions about the exact OS/browser/VC SW combination that I'm using, your suggestions simply don't apply to the one I am using.
conductr 2y ago
> Telling viewers to zoom in if they can’t read anything sounds like you’re blaming them for the problem yeah I wouldn't disagree, have been ignorant to the solution on this one. It's a recent concern as I'm new to Teams and working at a company with an older demographic than I'm used to so I'm kind of new to getting this request so much tbh. When people complain about having "aging eyes" my default response has been to zoom up to 150% but beyond that I can't even use my own computer as a presentation device for myself which is a showstopper, so my initial thought was tell them to use the Zoom, it's what you do on your phone to read small text, browser to read news, etc. and honestly I zoom in when I can't read someone elses screen (I've never asked someone to increase a font size mid-presentation). Part of the problem is the content kind of requires a lot of columns of data to be visible at once. Bouncing around from YTD to MTD sections by section kind of breaks the flow of the meeting, especially because while I'm presenting they are all individually consuming the content differently (one guy only care's about Margins, one guy only cares about Expenses, etc so it helps to have a lot on the screen at once and let them zoom into what they care about) All said, I'm definitely going to try out all the suggestions here and see if I can figure out a better solution. Thanks HN!

eastbound 2y ago

+1 to learning how to share a window, doing it fast when you’re changing windows, and reducing the size of the window. It shows that you care for the audience.

deathanatos 2y ago
The UX for window sharing is just too crappy for this suggestion. I do this, and the single hardest part is locating the window in the list of windows to share. Combine that with a workflow that involves 2 or more windows (e.g., switching between a terminal & a browser … or just wanting to display them both at the same time¹), and it's not really workable. ¹… and while there's no technical reason I couldn't share two windows … there's no support for it.
- eastbound 2y ago
  No really: Learn this UX to share your screen. - The last window is always suggested FIRST when sharing, - Learn what to look at: Look at the appearance of your browser window before you go click Share my screen. The second will provide a visual confirmation that you’re clicking the right button. Don’t pass as a boomer when you can be a Millennial!
  - deathanatos 2y ago
    > - The last window is always suggested FIRST when sharing, It most definitely isn't. (I just checked, just to humor you.) > - Learn what to look at: Look at the appearance of your browser window before you go click Share my screen. I'm often staring at it the window I intend to share as I'm going through the list so as to be able to find it. I don't think it's as useful as you think it is. > Don’t pass as a boomer when you can be a Millennial! … right … You're probably making some assumptions about the exact OS/browser/VC SW combination that I'm using, your suggestions simply don't apply to the one I am using.

conductr 2y ago

> Telling viewers to zoom in if they can’t read anything sounds like you’re blaming them for the problem yeah I wouldn't disagree, have been ignorant to the solution on this one. It's a recent concern as I'm new to Teams and working at a company with an older demographic than I'm used to so I'm kind of new to getting this request so much tbh. When people complain about having "aging eyes" my default response has been to zoom up to 150% but beyond that I can't even use my own computer as a presentation device for myself which is a showstopper, so my initial thought was tell them to use the Zoom, it's what you do on your phone to read small text, browser to read news, etc. and honestly I zoom in when I can't read someone elses screen (I've never asked someone to increase a font size mid-presentation). Part of the problem is the content kind of requires a lot of columns of data to be visible at once. Bouncing around from YTD to MTD sections by section kind of breaks the flow of the meeting, especially because while I'm presenting they are all individually consuming the content differently (one guy only care's about Margins, one guy only cares about Expenses, etc so it helps to have a lot on the screen at once and let them zoom into what they care about) All said, I'm definitely going to try out all the suggestions here and see if I can figure out a better solution. Thanks HN!