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Proposal / April 2026
××A half-day workshop to bring Poka's product designers from individual speed to team signal. Hands-on, custom-prepped, designed for designers.
The product design team at Poka works on one of the harder surfaces in software. Tablets in gloved hands, on a plant floor, with operators who have a few seconds to read a screen and act on it. Every AI feature that lands on that screen has to earn its place inside those few seconds, which makes the design work specific in a way that most workshops don't account for.
The workshop is built for that specificity. Half a day, custom-prepped on Poka, structured around three movements the team works through together: Speed, System, and Signal. The room walks out with a real Claude skill every designer built themselves, a starter central brain for the design team, and a 30-60-90 roadmap the team carries forward.
We're fired up about this. We live in this work every day. We compress the learning curve, bring frameworks that actually work, and leave the team running with a foundation it keeps building on.
They'll know what good looks like, get their foundations dialled with skills, and a shared skillchain the team can use, and all design, ship, and collect feedback on a prototype in record time.
Three hours, structured around the Three S's: Speed, System, Signal. Each hour is hands-on. Every framework gets pressure-tested against real Poka work in the same session. The design team's workflows are at the center of every hour.
We arrive custom-prepped on Poka. The slides reference your product, your operators, and the surfaces your team is shipping this quarter. The live exercises are scoped against a real problem we pick with Sebastien before the room walks in. The team leaves with a working Claude skill every designer built, a starter central brain for the team, a 30-60-90 roadmap, and a private Q&A thread with the facilitators for the week after.
We open with the two questions every product team is working through right now and the operating model shifting underneath them. Why agile is cracking. Where human judgment lives in an AI-native team. The three shifts we install: from individual craft to shared system, from execution-led to design-led product thinking, and from one-off AI experiments to AI as leverage on every existing design skill. Then the Three S's framework and the AI compound loop, scoped to Poka.
What skills and skill chains actually are, live in Claude. Every designer in the room builds and ships a real skill scoped to their own Poka work. A PRD skill that knows your design system. A research synthesis skill. A copy iteration skill against the operator vocabulary. Pair exercise: identify the three highest-leverage skill candidates for the team. We wire one skill chain together as a group.
Individual skill plateaus without a shared system. The second hour installs the central brain: the shared knowledge layer the design team builds on together, scoped to Poka. The room maps the team's context together: what the team believes, the operators you serve, the surfaces and tools you work with, what you learn as you ship. By end of hour the team has co-architected the first version of their central brain together with the architecture and next steps they need to go build it when they're ready.
AX, the framework we wrote the book on, woven in where it lands hardest. Designing AI for tablets in gloved hands, where confusion has real cost.
Speed and system without signal plateau too. The last hour is the meat: every designer ships a prototype using the skills they built, then collects real feedback from peers in the room. It's illustrative of what the skills and product compound loop can do to drive signal at every stage of the design process.
We workshop a 30-60-90 roadmap with the team: the milestones at the end of each month the team can run toward, scoped to the design org. Then live Q&A with the facilitators.
Co-author of the AX book and LCA's Field Guide to Implementing AI. Runs the session top to bottom. Custom Poka prep with Sebastien in advance.
In the room as strategy and support throughout.
Brings the design lens. Translates frameworks into specific moves for product designers.
Pre-workshop intake. Custom slides. Real Poka examples. The live exercise scoped before the session starts.
Literally. Our Head of Product Strategy & AI is co-author of AX: The Rise of Agentic Experience and LCA's Field Guide to Implementing AI. The frameworks the workshop runs on are the ones we ship in print.
We design and build AI-native products for Shopify, Intuit, Salesforce, Bolt, and our own portfolio. The frameworks we teach are the ones we used yesterday.
The workshop is built from the design team out. We are a design firm. It's the medium we need to unlock the power of technology to end users. We speak design and are helping move the discipline forward.
Every session is custom-prepped on real client surfaces. Yours, before the room walks in. Your operators, your tablets, your roadmap.
AI on a factory floor carries real weight. Trust, latency, and clarity sit as first-class design constraints from the first sketch. Same way you treat them.
Three hours, three hands-on movements. Every framework gets pressure-tested against a real Poka surface in the same session. The team leaves with shipped work.
Half-day session, custom-prepped on Poka. Three hours, three hands-on movements across Speed, System, and Signal. Plus the opening frame and the closing 30-60-90 workshop. Pricing scales with the team you bring.
Tentative start: late May 2026. Final date and seat count locked once budget and team availability come back. Remote. In-person option available upon request. Pricing to be confirmed.
Outline and dates landing this week. Any questions, ping me directly. WhatsApp or iMessage, whatever's fastest.