Workshop techniques

The exercises behind the magic.

A peek at the plays we run in the room. Steal them for your own sessions — or let us bring the whole playbook.

Our techniques

diverge

Crazy 8s

Eight ideas, eight minutes, one folded sheet. Quantity beats precious. Breaks the blank page every time.

8 minAny size
decide

Dot voting

Everyone gets dots, the wall makes the call. Silent, fast, and immune to the loudest voice in the room.

10 min3–30
frame

How Might We

Turn problems and gripes into open, optimistic questions you can actually design against.

15 minAny size
frame

Lightning Demos

Steal shamelessly. The team demos great solutions from anywhere, then we mine them for ideas.

20 min4–12
decide

The Decider

When consensus stalls, one named decider breaks the tie. Clarity beats comfortable ambiguity.

5 minLeadership
diverge

Note-and-Vote

Generate solo, share together, vote silently. The fairest way to harvest a group's best thinking.

12 minAny size
prototype

Storyboarding

Sketch the solution frame by frame before anyone builds a thing. Cheap to change, costly to skip.

45 min4–10
prototype

Test with 5

Five real users, one prototype, a wall of patterns. The fastest reality check you'll ever run.

1 day5 users
Bring us in

Want the whole playbook in your room?

We design the agenda around your decision, run every minute of it, and leave your team with the artefacts and the momentum to keep going.

Product sprint

Ready to get unstuck?

Tell us what's stuck. We'll tell you the fastest way through — usually in a week.