While creating the right methods and activities for planning a client workshop is important, what has been especially fascinating is explicitly crafting the workshop-participant experience and recognizing how the participant experience is connected to the overall project success. Some of the experience principles for co-design workshops with client teams followed at Adaptive Path are:
- Honor the gathering
- Establish shared reference
- Evoke the mission
- Personalize the purpose
- Prepare for excellence
- Plan for productive groups
- Reveal the forest in the trees
- Remember the Enterprise
- Be grateful
- Bring your piece of the puzzle
The UX of Co-Design: Experience Principles for Successful Client Workshops