Posts Tagged ‘demos’

This week’s post is inspired by  New York Tech Meetup. For those of you that are NYC based, I’m sure you know about and/or attended the event. For those of you who are not here in NYC, NYTM is basically one of the biggest, most well known tech/startup events in the area.

Demoing to the New York community is a must for just about any startup in the area. It’s sort of like an initiation into the “you are almost close to making it” world here in NYC. Therefore, the demo, to me, seems like a huge effort to prepare for… and most if not all presenters do prepare a great deal.

• What then makes a successful demo?
• Who usually gets the most buzz, questions and positive feedback from their presentations?

It’s the presenters that think about what the audience wants to hear, NOT what they, as the presenter, want to say. This is where demoing at the NYTM, and anywhere to be honest, becomes a task in User Experience Design.

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