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Home Schedule Week 9 · Overview
Less But Better
Week 9
Week 9 Dyads
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Home ScheduleWeek 9 · Monday · Critique
Mid-Project Critique
45 Minutes Partners + Instructor
  • Present your work-in-progress
  • This is the pressure point: what needs to change before Wednesday?
  • Feedback from partners and instructor
In Week 2, you used I Like / I Wish / I Wonder. Now the stakes are higher. V2 critique: "This could go further because _____." You're no longer being nice — you're being useful.
Home ScheduleCase · Apple Keynotes
Apple Keynotes

The Same Work, Two Ways

The same work, presented two ways, lands completely differently. Storytelling is not optional — it's how your work becomes legible to people who weren't there.

In 2007, Jobs didn't start with the product. He started with three separate problems the audience already had. Then: "These are not three devices. This is one device." The product didn't change. The framing did.

Takeaway

Your V2 presentation is its own design challenge.
Home ScheduleCase · Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams
Less But Better

Restraint in presentation makes the design speak.

If you have to explain it, you haven't designed it clearly enough.

The presentation disappears; the work appears.

Less but better. The principle that made Braun timeless is the same one that makes a presentation land.
Restraint Clarity
Home ScheduleWeek 9 · Before/After
Before / After Pitch
Deck 1Information dump, too many words, no story
Deck 2Status quo → gap → vision. Imagery. Restraint. Story.
Airbnb original pitch deckAirbnb Pitch Deck (2009)
What changed? Not the idea. The framing.
Home ScheduleReading · Duarte
Story
The Audience Is the Hero
Status Quo → Gap → Resolution
Every Moment Serves the Story
V2 Presentation = Design Challenge

What do you show, in what order, what do you leave out?

Home ScheduleWeek 9 · Readings
Your Assigned Readings
SchonSchon
DuarteDuarte — Resonate

[ Groups will be assigned in class. Each student reads one. ]

Home ScheduleWeek 9 · Monday Studio
Studio Time
25 Minutes Respond & Polish
  • What feedback did you get today? What will you change?
  • What will you keep and why?
  • Begin thinking about your presentation as a designed experience
"Can someone who never saw V1 be captivated by V2 on its own?"
Home ScheduleWeek 9 · Wednesday
Wednesday: Final Push

Reading Discussion — 10 Minutes

  • Schon group: What decision did you make WHILE building that differed from your plan?
  • Duarte group: What's the story structure of your V2 presentation? Status quo → gap → resolution?
  • Bridge: How are you making your work legible to someone encountering it for the first time?

Final Studio — 80 Minutes

Final push. All deliverables due end of Wednesday.

Portfolio Entry PDF V2 Audit Reflection
The floor is yours. Make it count.