{"id":79,"date":"2020-08-25T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:43:00","slug":"making-myself-presentable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/79\/making-myself-presentable\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Myself Presentable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent much of yesterday working on a presentation for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/remote-testing-of-tabletop-games-an-indiana-uxpa-online-meetup-tickets-116629286335\" target=\"_blank\">Remote Testing of Tabletop Games<\/a> for this week&#8217;s Indiana User Experience Professionals meeting. I was able to run through a first draft of the presentation with Mike Miserendino, the chapter president, and he gave me a lot of great feedback and ideas. I was worried about not having enough to say, and now I&#8217;m finding instead that it&#8217;s much too long. I need to trim it back, and yet also make more of it relevant to the UX professionals in the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1-768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was also concerned about being nervous during the presentation, but in the practice with Mike I could already tell that I&#8217;m so excited by the topic that stage fright isn&#8217;t a problem. It might also help that I recently listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wYWNpZmljLWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2Nob2ljZW9sb2d5\/episode\/YjgyYWU1ZWYtYTM0NC00YzFlLThkNjgtOTZjZTQ3MTY4N2Ey?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAsQzsICahcKEwjwla2jrrbrAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this Choiceology podcast on stage fright<\/a> and reframing it as excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of yesterday working on a presentation for Remote Testing of Tabletop Games for this week&#8217;s Indiana User Experience Professionals meeting. I was able to run through a first draft of the presentation with Mike Miserendino, the chapter president, and he gave me a lot of great feedback and ideas. I was worried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-game-design","category-ux-engineer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}