Sparking Joy in Demos and Products
Explore how to create engaging coding demos and product presentations that spark joy through humor, localization, accessibility, storytelling, and purposeful design. Understand how to connect with your audience and make demos memorable, while leveraging empty states and API interactions to enhance user experience and product appeal.
Why demos are a great opportunity to spark joy
Demos are GREAT opportunities to spark joy because of the relative freedom of a non-production, non-core code app. On-brand humor can help sell your project’s intent while also helping with marketing— just check out the landing page and social media reactions to Muzzle.
Demonstrate how to interact with an API
Even when you are demonstrating how to interact with an API, you can use joke APIs like this one for “clean” jokes, this one for developer jokes, or this one for DevOps jokes. If you need to be more serious, check Public API Lists for interesting APIs you can demo ...