All the Workshop's a Stage: Kicking off Design Projects in Three Acts
People love stories. Telling and listening to stories is a fundamental part of the human experience. Great narrative isn’t only engaging, but motivates cooperation and fosters empathy—exactly what your client workshops should achieve. That’s why you should treat your workshops like stories. Presented by Caris Hurd and Todd Nienkerk on July 27, 2016, in partnership with InVision. Four Kitchens builds digital services focused on content management, content strategy, and multi-channel publishing. We perform user research, create content models, deploy CMSs, design content APIs and microservices, and build websites and apps to engage audiences on virtually any device. Though we mostly build big platforms, we can engage at many levels: consulting, team augmentation, "virtual CDO/CTO“ services for organizations without a web team, and dedicated support for existing sites.
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All the Workshop's a Stage: Kicking off Design Projects in Three Acts
- 1. Presented July 27, 2016, for InVision All the Workshop’s a Stage Kicking Off Projects in Three Acts
- 2. Who we are
- 3. Caris Hurd Director of User Experience Four Kitchens @carismarie caris@fourkitchens.com
- 4. Todd Ross Nienkerk CEO, Co-Founder, and Digital Strategist Four Kitchens @toddross todd@fourkitchens.com
- 5. Four Kitchens We build digital services focused on content management, content strategy, and multi-channel publishing @fourkitchens fourkitchens.com
- 6. Imagine you have to leave suddenly for an undisclosed location…
- 7. Hurry! Grab two! •Laptop •Knife •Rope •Coat •Sandals •Canvas tarp •Camera •Sunscreen
- 8. Credit: robmbm on Flickr Surprise! It’s a desert island Knowing this, would you change what you brought?
- 9. To understand what we should do, we must know why we’re doing it
- 12. •Create clarity by setting goals and direction •Gather information •Let multiple people be heard in a roundtable setting •Establish trust and rapport between you and your client •Have fun doing it!
- 13. Running a workshop Exercises, protocols, and tools
- 14. Act One: Setup
- 17. Goals Exposition
- 24. Bad workshops •Simply “interview” the client •Focus on note-taking •Let the client lead •Lack variety and interactivity •Entrench silos
- 25. Good workshops •Create a narrative across exercises •Follow a three-act structure each day •Observe the energy of the day •Include SHORT breaks
- 26. Good workshops •Create empathy •Allow for improvisation •Don’t last too long •End with a sense of resolution and trust
- 27. Learn more •Gamestorming by Dave Grey •Visual Meetings by David Sibbet •Facilitation courses •Improv classes
- 28. Questions?
- 29. Thank you!