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Here are 1st CSE presentations of their favourite Apps. Can you improve that?

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS

WE RECOMMEND

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS WE RECOMMEND The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But...

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Which person is your classmate describing? GUESS!

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DESCRIBING PERSONS by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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Here are students´presentations for the World Book Day in April 2021

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BOOK PRESENTATIONS by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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Create Elevator Pitch with StoryboardThat

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Create Elevator Pitch with StoryboardThat

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"90% of Startups fail ... 42% of those failed from building a product no one wanted."

With so many companies and projects failing due to creating products no one wants, or often referred to as "the cure for which there is no disease", how can you, as an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, product manager, UX guru, or anyone else on a team, increase your chances? The methodologies in this Illustrated Guide to Product Development are aimed toward new companies, but are equally beneficial for existing companies developing new products or simply developing their business models.

Here at Storyboard That, we practice what we preach and believe you will be more successful if you have amazing team alignment and execution, and follow a cycle of:

Whether you are a new business owner, developing entrepreneur, or part of an existing company, you will greatly increase your chances of success by more quickly identifying what areas of the business/product make sense, and which ones either you or the market are not ready for yet. Variations of these themes are shown again and again in books like The Lean Startup or Outside In.

Creating and iterating over storyboards is far cheaper and faster than creating and iterating over a physical or digital product with long lead times. The ability to get learnings faster and cheaper will give you more time when you are actually ready to execute properly on the right product vision.

For this series we will start with the simplest of elevator pitches and continue all the way through product roll-out and pivots for a fictitious company, SoLoMoFoo. Throughout our shared journey we will introduce a topic, show you a completed storyboard to quickly grasp the concept, and then walk through the methodology and give you a template to create your own versions.

As for SoLoMoFoo, hopefully working on the age old problem of bringing a Social Local Mobile Food solution for free food at the office will make you chuckle or at least not cringe too badly! Although all of the examples are a little silly and exaggerated for clarity, we have done our best to present proxy examples from real meetings and real life experiences from our own product development journeys before and at Storyboard That.

The complete series will cover the following steps:

Elevator Pitch

Imagine after months of stalking your favorite local Angel Investor you have managed to corner them in an elevator and you pitch them on your revolutionary idea for a Social Local Mobile Food Solution, affectionately known as SoLoMoFoo*.

Take a moment before reading further to think about your first three thoughts or questions about this business idea.

Now take a look at this storyboard.

Once again, take a moment to reflect on your first three thoughts or comments about this version of the business idea.

Having performed this example in countless workshops (which is a bit different than reading on a web page), I have found that some of the comments about the business idea for more technical people are about how to build it, whereas for marketers, the focus is on how to market the product.

As for the storyboard itself, there are usually more comments about, "Is this a good idea / can we make money?" and "Who are the target users?".

Let's circle back to the startling statistic at the beginning of this article: 90% of startups fail, 42% from building a product no one wants. The storyboard allows people to think about the big picture, without getting bogged down by details that should be thought about later.

The very first, second, and third question should be:

1. Would people use this product/service as envisioned?

2. Can this product generate revenue (or achieve a nonprofit objective)?

3. Do I actually understand what was recommended?

As humans, we love stories and find them more relatable than bullet points because we can imagine ourselves or others in those situations. Seeing a product idea in the context of a story conveys so much more about the ecosystem and the users than mere text alone can.

Breaking Down the Questions

Would people use this product/service as envisioned?

This is really a two-part question. "Would people use this product" is the crux of making sure to not build a product no one wants. After witnessing many great ideas in storyboard format, the audience often echoes back, they believe in the core product, but feel the depicted customer use case is wrong and make recommendations to one they believe in more.

Can this product generate revenue (or achieve a nonprofit objective)?

Businesses exist to make money. If a product will not make money either directly or indirectly (loss leader, long term strategic play...) don't do it. If people would use a product, but not enough to warrant paying for it, and there is not a strong enough advertising model, don't do it. If a product will cost ten million to produce, and has a max revenue of $1,000 .... I think you get the idea.

Do I actually understand what was recommended?

After a lot of thought, I have come to the conclusion, if I don't get something in a business context, the problem is with the presenter and not me. If it is too confusing for me, it is also going to be way too confusing for most customers. This is usually a sign the idea needs more refinement and a clearer vision of who the ideal customer is and what the value proposition is.

With a storyboard it is even easier to see this than with bullet points, but the creation of the storyboard usually helps the author simplify and clarify their thoughts into a common scenario that more people can relate to.

Sure, it sounds easy with your perfect example, but how do I do this?

Making a storyboard for your product idea is easy! We created this beginning product development template by expanding on a framework presented by Inuit at South by South West in 2011. You can see their slides here.

Let's go through this storyboard and really begin to break down what each part is for.

The more you understand and think about the underlying and true benefit to the customer, the more you can think about how to optimize the entire product experience around the user. At Storyboard That, we often spend the most time on the user benefit and the problem statement to make sure they are aligned and logical. We know we can build solutions, we don't always know if we know the problem and the underlying need!

Putting it All Together

Now that we have walked through all of the parts of a great product pitch, let's re-examine our initial SoLoMoFoo storyboard. You can see that we followed the same framework to clearly show the product from a customer-centric lens.

Now It's Your Turn!

Now that you are familiar with presenting your idea in a storyboard, it is your turn to make your own! To get you started, below are templates of this product solution benefit framework in three or six cells. I encourage you to make your own elevator pitch with a storyboard. What big idea would you want to present to a potential investor? Click "Create a Copy" and begin to create your own product pitch!

Depending on your idea, you may need to grow your storyboard to more than six cells. Some problems may take 2-3 cells to really explain the context, and that is ok!

Footnotes

*True story! We originally called it SoLoMoFo, printed out our examples, looked at them on the wall, and realized we really needed to add an extra 'o' at the end.

Continue SBT's Illustrated Guide to Product Development

Next up, Choosing the Right Go-To-Market Strategy.

About Aaron Sherman

Aaron Sherman (@AaronBenSherman) is the CEO and Creator of Storyboard That (www.storyboardthat.com) - the award-winning, world leader in digital storytelling technology. Aaron founded Storyboard That in 2012 after 10 years working the full gamut of product development roles (Developer, Project Manager, Product Owner, and Long Term Strategist) across three continents (North America, Europe and Australia) to fundamentally improve how products were internally prototyped and discussed.

Aaron has spoken as a guest Lecturer to MBA students at Northeastern, and with General Assembly leading workshops on Product Development.

Further Reading on Product Development

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Excellent explanation video, although you may have to slow down the speed of reproduction a bit 🧘‍♀️

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How to make a PechaKucha presentation for class [for students]

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Pechakucha example with valuable tips on how to improve your presentation slides

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Ellen Finkelstein wants to encourage us to create our own presentation slides. She states that not everyone needs to be an artist in order to have an amazing presentation. In this presentation she offers suggestions on how "artistically challenged" people can improve their slides.

"Presentation of the Day" on December 3, 2014.

How To Create Slides Transcript

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so thank you, everybody and high. I'm a power point at a communication extra. But I'm not an artist or a designer, and tonight you'll be hearing presentations from some fabulous artists. And you might think, Well, that's a little scare. You might be awed by it, and I just don't want you to be put off from creating your own presentations. So today I have some tips and pointers for you that you can use to create your own vibrant and high powered presentation slides. But I want to know how many of you think of yourselves as artistically challenged. Okay, so we definitely have some of you, some of you here, so that's good. When you have to give a presentation, you usually don't have the opportunity to hire a designer, so but you want your slides to look good. And it's a challenge there because, you know your slides don't look very good. Maybe, maybe other people told you that. And how many of you have heard you know, death by PowerPoint presentations like that? And you don't want to be one of those types of presenters. So what it is is it's an obstacle. Few. It's a challenge. Sort of like the proverbial brick wall. How do you make your slides look good? And so, what do you do about that? How do you get over that? How many have had that kind of feeling? Like this is a challenge for May I have to do that. Okay, so what are we going to do about that? So I'm going to give you these tips. Thes pointers. If you'd like to feel confident that you can create again high powered, highly visual presentations that are not death by PowerPoint and you can use them for Pataki a tie. You can use them for business, for education, for personal use. What if you want. But first, I'm gonna tell you a sad story on how it helped me. So in 2004 vote an article for Presentations magazine called Be. Let's See, It was called Slide designed without bullets, and it was a great topic, but my slides were really horrible. And someone actually wrote a letter to the editor saying, How could you publish such a bad slide? So you can imagine right how I felt. So here, for the second time ever, I'm presenting you with the slide and you can see that it's, you know, you don't know where to focus first or next, and the colors are a little, you know, blinding something like that. And so I realized that I needed to learn how to design great slides. After a while, I was writing about presenting, and so I really needed to have some good examples. So I started going to a presentation conference. Every year I read books on research. I read books on slide design, and I also looked at prize winning presentations and analyze them all to try to figure out what to do. And so, based on some research and what I read, I came up with the system that I called the tellin show method. And basically what you do is you tell your point with a slide title and then you show it. Now here you're seeing an image, but it could be a diagram. It could be a chart like a graph, whatever it is, but it's just like the Boys Picture book. One side tells the story, and the other one shows the story with this big picture. So it's a very simple method anyone could do it on a corollary is to put one point on a slide now in Pitch Akcha. That's how I pronounce it in the same thing is better future. There's a accustomed to not use very much text, but research shows that in most presentations, having some text that puts the point up there helps people understand and remember what you're saying, which is a good thing. So this might be your default slide with a center title in a slanted, image centred image, and it works for a charter, a diagram. But for an image, it's pretty forgettable. So I'm going to show you four layouts that always look good that you conduce. So the first layout is going to be something where you're going to have to put the image on the right side Now you might have to crop the image to get it to be in that shape, But cropping is always good. You can see how the image looks bigger, right? You're focused. Whatever was extraneous around the edge is gone so you can focus more on it. So cropping isn't always always a good thing to do in this layout, pretty much always looks good. It's pretty common. The 2nd 1 is obvious. Just make the picture take up the whole slide. Now with the text that you have on there doesn't show up over the image. You can make the background of that text area semi transparent, as I've done and again here. You see, it's big, right? So we all know bigger is better, right? That's the principle. And so then the 3rd 1 is very similar, but the text is on the top in the images below it again. You may have to crop it to get it to fit that unique shape. And this is this the layout that I used for that tellin show slide with the little boy reading the book. So I use this a lot, and finally, what else could they be like? That's everything, right? But no. Here's another idea. The fourth layout, with the text of the upper left on the image at the bottom right. But for this you need an image that has no background, okay, and it creates this diagonal line that draws the audience's attention first to read the text and then you go down to the image. So those are those four layouts that always look good. So I have some more points for you as well. A couple more ideas on one of them has to do with your images. So you can you see how these all have to do with computers. But can you see how they all look really different? Their style is different. You see that? So what you want to do is you want to try to fight images that have a similar style, so it doesn't look chaotic. Carrie, just take a look at them and you'll see how they all look so different. So and the last thing is just to use photos and that cheesy clipboard, The cheesy clip Art gives power point. A bad name, I've been telling PowerPoint. They just have to get rid of it completely. If you're a good designer, you can create icons that look wonderful. But for those of us who artistically challenged, ah, photograph is a savior. You know, you find a good, clear photo, and when you use it and then you know it will make you look good in Power point. You can always specify that you only want photos. This is how you do it in Power 0.0.2013. And Power point is my secret, my secret source for images. Almost all of the images in this presentation come from within power point. So you don't have to go for and they're free. So again, you just go insert picture, insert online pictures and you can specify that you want only photos. So basically, we have four principles here. One is that cropping is good. Crop your photos to make them more powerful news. Big photos because you can. There are those four layouts that always look good and finally, try to find as much as possible a common style for your images just to make for a little bit more coherence. It looked that more designed a little bit more professional. So what I want to do is I want to invite you to take these principles and makeover slide that you a presentation that you already have, and so on what I'm going to invite you to is to send me a before and after slide. There's my email address and I'll give you a free feedback. So thank you

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Genial.ly for International Book Day

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BOOK PRESENTATIONS by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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Students vote on their favourite Applications

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OUR FAVOURITE APPS

WE RECOMMEND

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

The way we are learning things is changing quickly.Years ago it was teachers and books, newspapers and encyclopedias.Nowadays, with new media, we have so many more opportunities to learn the things we are interested in. Access to knowledge is quite easy.But... you still have to spend time and effort to learn things

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Students describe persons, classmates have to guess

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Students present their favourite companies when it comes to sustainability

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COMPANIES FOR A BETTER FUTURE

COMPANIES THAT IMPROVE OUR LIVING CONDITIONS, OUR SOCIETY, OUR ENVIRONMENT

L´Òreal

MICROSOFT

MICROSOFT

APPLE

INDITEX 2

NESTLE

LEGO

IBERDROLA

NOAA

RED ELECTRICA

IKEA 2

AXIAL

MERCADONA

PC COMPONENTS

IDENTO

AMAZON

TESLA

GOOGLE

INDITEX

IKEA

ECOALF

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INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE:Organizations and Companies that have a positive impactSustainability - Growth - Agility - Fun - EnjoymentWhich is your favourite company when it comes to contributing to your future life? Which businesses will make YOUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE?In your INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION of 2 minutes, try to present the company you have chosen. Talk about the following aspects:What did you get to know this company?What do you think is most interesting / outstanding aspect of this company?Why is the business model different?Does the company improve your life? If yes, how (what does the company DO to improve your life)?Does the company improve the life of their costumers in general? If yes, how?Does the company improve the life of their employees? If yes, how?Does the company improve our society? If yes, how?Does the company improve the environment (sustainability)? If yes, how?In which aspects could your company improve to make your future even BETTER?Need some inspiration?Check out this terminology: Scrum Techniques, Agile - Lean Companies, TEAL Organisations, Social / Environmental sustainabilityFind some interesting business models here:INNOCRACY- People, prosperity and our planet: Thinking out of the box with Maya GöpelTEAL ORGANISATIONS- List of companies with a different business modelhttps://www.climate-kic.org/news/top-30-cleantech-start-ups/https://ec.europa.eu/environment/awards/whats_new.htmlTASK: MAKE A POSTER/GENIAL.LY AND PRESENT YOUR COMPANYPresent your company to your classmates on 23rd April. To support your presentation,do a poster or other visual support (IMPORTANT!).RECORD a video of your presentationand share it with me on Google Drive. Send me a link to your presentation in this task.CREATIVITYis an important factor. Make sure you implement strategies to get the attention of your audience!

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COMPANIES FOR BETTER FUTURE by nicolehaemmerle.aleman on Genially

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COMPANIES FOR A BETTER FUTURE COMPANIES THAT IMPROVE OUR LIVING CONDITIONS, OUR SOCIETY, OUR ENVIRONMENT L´Òreal MICROSOFT MICROSOFT APPLE INDITEX 2 NESTLE LEGO IBERDROLA NOAA RED ELECTRICA IKEA 2 AXIAL MERCADONA PC COMPONENTS IDENTO AMAZON TESLA GOOGLE INDITEX IKEA ECOALF TELEFONICA TESLA 2 CRAM FOUNDATION FASTER WEAR INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE:Organizations and Companies that have a positive impactSustainability - Growth - Agility - Fun - EnjoymentWhich is your favourite company when it comes to contributing to your future life?

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You might even discover your more artistic side

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Important: Highlight and use new vocabulary

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Important: Highlight and use new vocabulary

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This poster hides some surprises (hidden behind stickers and inside envelope)

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Active listening necessary! In this jigsaw activity the listeners afterwards had to be able to tell other peers about the articles. Worked perfectly the 2nd time we did it

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Example: Article (own choice of student) on "How to pack your suitcase"