Kate Syuma & Chris Weier

Product Design Manager in Growth | Founder & Strategic Experience Designer

Miro | Hidorris

Collaboration as a design tool: how to create a playful workshop designs using Miro

Design work is a collaborative play these days, and “collaboration” is truly becoming the main design tool. The past two years made us experts in designing digital workshop experiences, yet we are all excited to be back in the same physical space. However, bringing digital tools to an analogue setting can ease things up and bring the often missed playfulness.

In this workshop, Chris and Kate will show you how you can design your in-person workshops to be more entertaining for your audience. They’ll introduce you to “playful collaboration”: together you’ll re-design existing workshop methods to work in a hybrid setup combining offline interaction with online elements using Miro.

They will give you a chance to express yourself freely and create your own template for all different sorts of workshop types.

Practicalities of the workshop:
Get inspired with “playful” frameworks for design ideation Uncover hidden features of Miro as a workshop tool Co-create in a small group your own template for playful and exciting workshop experiences

Outcomes:
You will practice how to combine offline interactions with online elements using Miro to create more engaging and fun workshops. You will get all created templates that you can use with your team. The best template creators will get a chance to partner with Miro to polish it and publish it on Miroverse ?and win a great prize!

What you need to bring:
– your laptop

About Kate & Chris

Kate is passionate about designing for business growth, uncovering new opportunities through user research, diving into behavioral psychology, and leading design teams towards creating better digital products. Kate joined Miro about 5 years ago as an individual contributor and has shaped herself from a product designer to a design leader by shifting from IC to the manager and building a Growth design team in a hyper-growth setup.

Since the dot-com era, Chris’ passion has always been to create enjoyable and meaningful digital products and services. Starting her career as a self-taught Developer, she soon realized she was striving to create great digital experiences as an Experience Designer. She wanted to have a job where no day is like the other, constantly learning and being challenged. That’s why she founded her first digital agency in 2007, was Co-Founder of several startups and started hidorris back in 2017.
Chris is an Explorer and a Sprinter: She is best in an environment of uncertainty and creativity and thrives when being able to execute at a blistering pace.