Improv to improve: Design x Product x Dev

“This is fine.” Ever feel like you’re the character in that meme, pretending to sip coffee while everything burns around you?

As the pace of change accelerates, Design, Product, and Development teams are asked to juggle shifting priorities, conflicting stakeholder requests, and constant trade-offs. Collaboration can quickly turn into friction when goals, incentives, and perspectives don’t align.

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We cannot stop the chaos, but we can train how we react to it.

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In this workshop, we borrow from the world of improv theatre to practice working across Design, Product, and Dev in challenging situations. Through quick-fire scenarios in a safe space, we’ll experiment with navigating disagreement, handling pressure, and understanding the real nature of team conflicts – with plenty of laughter along the way.

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This session is for you if you’ve ever been in a project where prototypes were reshaped in development, stakeholders pushed for the latest trendy app, or user tests happened in isolation. Being great in your own discipline is not enough to make collaboration work. Knowing how to assert your perspective, identify risky situations, and work constructively across roles is rarely taught – but essential for successful product teams.