Jeff Rafter

behind the scenes of how we shipped Decks, our favorite way to use @diabrowser this was a personal mission after testing many ai presentation tools. cool demos, but none provided a better way to make a slide deck. great products to make sleek slides about nothing. with Dia we flipped this on its head: content > design admittedly Dia is not the best product for a polished keynote presentation. but 90% of our meetings internally aren’t that. they are updates on projects; proposals based on existing docs; or data readouts for feature launches. the job of these slides is not to look pixel perfect, the job is to clearly share an accurate narrative as someone who’s made hundreds of decks in their career, the objective was clear: make something i’d actually use. when i need to give a presentation the first thing i ask is not “what theme should i use?” there's a somewhat subconscious process and method in my head that breaks it down into pieces asking questions like: - who is the audience? - what is the key takeaway to share? - what supporting material helps support this takeaway? Dia follows this behavior. it works with you by pulling in context, answers what it can, and asks questions where unsure. deciding the narrative and takeaway of your slides is what makes them yours. in a world where everyone is looking to outsource and automate their work to ai, we’ll continue building with the human at the center and a big thank you to all the incredible humans who helped ship! @jeffrafter @chrstnerode @jumhyn @jedimody