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Is a Shared Sandbox the Key to Team Innovation? 🛠️🤔

Name: Is a Shared Sandbox the Key to Team Innovation? 🛠️🤔
Uploaded: 2025-02-07T20:00:50+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Will Milling
Description: In this segment, the speaker explains a practice of providing designers with early access to a variety of digital tools and interventions before a design…

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In this segment, the speaker explains a practice of providing designers with early access to a variety of digital tools and interventions before a design visit. Designers are encouraged to play, experiment, and even “hack” the tools. While the experiments don’t always succeed, the process invests designers in the tools, leading them to discover unexpected, innovative ways to repurpose existing technology—outcomes the speaker finds inspiring and illustrative of how a shared sandbox can drive team innovation.

We created access to different digital tools, different digital interventions when a design visit was coming up, and we let designers play with those tools. And sometimes we didn't do so well, but that's okay because they were invested in it, and they started coming up with different ways to hack the system. And it's unbelievable, we started using tools we already had for things we never imagined we could use them for. And that's really, really inspiring.