If you’re giving a demo to an audience, you must embiggen your screen.
If you’re giving a demo to an audience, where you’re showing your screen - it could be in person, or on a video call - then you must zoom in.
Zoom in until it feels like you’ve gone too far. And then zoom in the same amount again.
No!
Zoom in way way way more.
You can’t zoom in too much. It’s not a real concept. You can only be too small.
If someone needs to embiggen, you need to tell them, for everyone’s sake. Call out “embiggen”.
When people ask me for tips on how to do good demos, or talks, I think they usually expect something more high-level. Like “plan ahead thoroughly” or “think through the structure” or “keep it relevant”.
But no! You need to make it bloody big. It’s often the deciding factor.
I actually learned this from my boss Steve, who’s known for calling out “embiggen” during every single future of coding meetup.
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