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Completely off-topic (well that's my nickname) but I'm seeing on HN more and more beautiful slide decks, from a purely esthetical point of view. This deck has b

by ot 13y ago

Completely off-topic (well that's my nickname) but I'm seeing on HN more and more beautiful slide decks, from a purely esthetical point of view. This deck has beautiful fonts and a beautiful color scheme, and it is nicely designed. My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?

ims 13y ago
Zach Holman has written about this: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who designed this deck was influenced by some of Holman's previous presentations.
- FraaJad 13y ago
  eh.. Mitsuhiko is known to have good eye for design. see his Flask website etc.,
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pbreit 13y ago
Similarly off topic: does speakerdeck provide a mbile version (not app)?
malkia 13y ago
Very beautiful indeed, and makes reading very easy. My only wish is if the URL's were working, or at least copy+pasting worked too (chrome, windows here). Last page of the document had 4 urls, and had to type them by hand...
the_mitsuhiko 13y ago
> My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme? author of the talk/slide-deck here. I make all my slide decks with Keynote, primarily because it has the best font rendering and presenter display out of the options available on OS X. They do not use a pre-made theme but I'm always looking for inspiration from other presentations and websites. Might be out of reach for the average technical developer but that's just because the average developer does not do slides. That stuff can be practiced. My slides got considerably better (I think at least) the more presentations I did.
ahoge 13y ago
I found this very helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5038209 http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5...

by ot 13y ago

ims 13y ago

Zach Holman has written about this: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who designed this deck was influenced by some of Holman's previous presentations.

FraaJad 13y ago
eh.. Mitsuhiko is known to have good eye for design. see his Flask website etc.,

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pbreit 13y ago

Similarly off topic: does speakerdeck provide a mbile version (not app)?

malkia 13y ago

Very beautiful indeed, and makes reading very easy. My only wish is if the URL's were working, or at least copy+pasting worked too (chrome, windows here). Last page of the document had 4 urls, and had to type them by hand...

the_mitsuhiko 13y ago

> My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme? author of the talk/slide-deck here. I make all my slide decks with Keynote, primarily because it has the best font rendering and presenter display out of the options available on OS X. They do not use a pre-made theme but I'm always looking for inspiration from other presentations and websites. Might be out of reach for the average technical developer but that's just because the average developer does not do slides. That stuff can be practiced. My slides got considerably better (I think at least) the more presentations I did.

ahoge 13y ago

I found this very helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5038209 http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5...