How to make Awesome Diagrams for your slides. A Non-Designer's Guide to Creating Awesome Diagrams for Slides. Yeah. I do loads of slide decks each year for several companies and there are two types of decks I do a lot. One is the presentation. One is the infodeck, which is really intended more as a document for distribution than as a presentation. The trouble is when I run into people who I can't convince there should be a difference. Slide Design for Developers. So I gave this talk called How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub.
Someone submitted my slides to Hacker News, where it stayed at #1 for most of the day. This was pretty strange to me at first. My slides are not designed for people who didn't see the talk in person. They're designed to support my words, not some online audience.