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We find human insights and paths of action to create value for our clients.

Our team at Outwitly are experts in human-centered design approaches to innovation. We are strong believers in the power of understanding users and stakeholders to uncover their needs and goals, while employing creative and collaborative design methods to envision bold change.

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Workshops

Re-energize your team, creatively find solutions to complex problems, and better understand your customers with one of our workshops. Outwitly’s design-thinking remote and in-person workshops are tailored to meet your specific challenges and help you envision (and realize!) an ideal future state for your organization, as well as drive innovation and foster stakeholder alignment.

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Featured Workshops

Not sure where to start? Browse our favourite high-value workshops. For teams that want to learn how to use powerful service design skills, we also offer Design Methods training on many different topics. Just ask us. If you don’t see the workshop you need, contact us and we’ll create a custom remote or live workshop that’s right for you.

  • Strategic Alignment

    Get clarity and move forward with purpose.

    Juggling different perspectives, opinions, and agendas can bring projects and teams to a standstill. In an Alignment Workshop we use change management and design-thinking tactics to align key stakeholders, staff, executives, and cross-functional teams around a common goal. We’ll help you air out issues, identify challenges, and develop priorities to focus your team with enthusiasm and excitement. Get everyone on the same page so that your organization can confidently move forward.

  • Future Vision

    Get excited! Create a tactical vision for your organization.

    To achieve your goals, you need a clearly articulated vision. In our Future Vision Workshop, we’ll identify what’s working today and what needs to change, and envision a better future. Together, we’ll develop a big-picture vision and a set of North Star Principles to guide your team, projects, and work efforts. Using creative and collaborative exercises like vision storyboarding and future-state journey mapping, we’ll enable you to visualize an ideal future for your organization in a concrete and actionable way.

  • Co-Design

    Collaboratively discover solutions with design thinking.

    Do you have a complex challenge that you can’t seem to solve? In our Co-Design workshop, we’ll design solutions with you and your stakeholders, end-users, and team using creative brainstorming and ideation exercises. Whether it’s a business, policy, culture, or creative challenge––through collaboration, we’ll develop design concepts and test ideas quickly to identify the best solutions that target and resolve your toughest problems.

  • Design Methods Training

    Build design capacity and unlock new skills.

    We offer interactive service design and UX training, where you and your team will learn to use the latest innovative design and research methods to apply to your next project. This includes powerful storytelling tools like journey mapping, service blueprints, and user personas, as well as techniques like brainstorming and rapid prototyping. We’ll tailor each training session to your team’s specific needs.

Public Workshops

We occasionally hold public workshops! Be the first to hear about them and other special workshop offers by signing up to our email list.

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Feeling stuck? Our workshops will propel you forward.

Our workshops are in high demand, with many clients returning year after year. Here’s why you should invest in an Outwitly workshop.

  1. Engaging and Fun
    Outwitly’s facilitators are dynamic and sociable, and they work hard to lead fun and productive exercises that are tailored to the challenges your organization is actually facing.
  2. Action-Oriented
    Your time is valuable, and we get that. We know what it means to take a VP or director away from the office for a day. Outwitly workshops are productive and high-value. They are structured so that by the end of the day, we’ve identified clear outcomes and actionable results. You’ll know what you need to do next the minute you get back to the office.
  3. Bright Spaces, Good Food
    We take care of the planning so you don’t have to. When needed, we’ll rent the space, book catering, buy supplies, and manage participant invitations. We view our design workshops as full experiences that deserve light, creative spaces and tasty refreshments (with lots of coffee and tea).
  4. Long-Lasting Results
    After, we’ll send you a beautifully-rendered report and design artifacts packed with insights and recommendations from the workshop. This takes us under two weeks to put together, and all deliverables are professionally copyedited and ready to send to upper management.
  5. Remote? No Problem.
    Sometimes in-person workshops are simply not possible. We can deliver all workshops using digital tools and remote technology. We’ll bring your team together, wherever they may be.
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Feeling inspired? Our team would love to hear from you. Book a FREE 30-minute discovery call with us today to discuss your specific challenges or email us at info@outwitly.com.

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How to Facilitate a Great Design Workshop

We explore in detail how to plan for, properly structure, and conduct a variety of design-oriented workshops for client projects that include brainstorming and collaboration, stakeholder alignment, team exercises, design-thinking, and UX design.

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Going Remote: Our Favourite Research & Workshop Tools

We offer our top remote-working strategies, tools, and techniques for conducting user research and design workshops at a distance.

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How to Plan and Conduct a Virtual Empathy Mapping Workshop

This post will teach you how to plan and conduct an effective virtual empathy mapping workshop!
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Sprint Retrospectives for UX and Service Design, Part 1: Introduction and Methods

At Outwitly, we know the value of reflection and solution-driven thinking when it comes to team projects.
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Sprint Retrospectives for UX and Service Design, Part 2: Agile Facilitation

Leading fruitful discussions between grueling Agile sprints is no easy feat, but it’s an important skill for any UX or service design practitioner.
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Finding Inspiration for More Creative UX Teams

In Part 2 of our series on unblocking creativity, we're discussing creative ways to inspire your UX teams when collaboration falters and new ideas are few and far between.
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Miro’s New Features and Updates: AI, Intelligent Canvas, and Innovative Workflows

Today’s blog post breaks down Miro’s newest updates, Intelligent Canvas, Composable Workflows, and AI, and shares how these features will improve your workflow and enhance team collaboration.
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Generative User Research: Why It Works, When It Works

Is your generative user research working for you?
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