System Design in Three Hours
Design a service under a real constraint set, present it, and have the trade-offs picked apart by the room.
You leave with: A one-page design with an explicit failure story
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Workshops
Small rooms. Real output.
Two to three hours, ten to sixteen people, a facilitator who will interrupt you, and something you built and handed in before the session ends.
Scheduled workshops
What is running
Seats are capped on purpose. When a workshop fills, the next date opens.
Track
The Decision Memo
Write the one-pager that gets a decision made: the call, the rejected options, and the number that would change your mind.
You leave with: A finished memo, marked live against the rubric
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Critique Without Taste
Give and take design critique grounded in the problem rather than in preference. Half the session is you being critiqued.
You leave with: A revised screen plus a written rationale
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Reading an Experiment
Four real A/B results, three of which should not be shipped. Work out which, and be able to say why out loud.
You leave with: A ship / no-ship recommendation per result
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Structuring Out Loud
The case-interview core skill: build a structure while talking, without freezing and without waffling.
You leave with: Three timed structures with recorded feedback
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Post-Mortems That Change Something
Run a blameless post-mortem on a real incident, and land actions that survive the following week.
You leave with: A post-mortem doc with owned, dated actions
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Not a webinar
Three differences worth knowing before you book
Both are useful. They are not interchangeable, and booking the wrong one is the most common complaint we get.
01
What you do
A webinar: Watch a practitioner talk, then ask a question in chat if you feel like it.
A workshop: Build something, on the clock, and hand it in before the session ends.
02
How many people
A webinar: Hundreds. Your camera is off and nobody notices whether you stayed.
A workshop: Ten to sixteen. The facilitator will ask you directly, and you will be expected to answer.
03
What you leave with
A webinar: Notes, a recording link, and good intentions.
A workshop: An artefact, marked against a rubric, saved to your profile.
How a workshop runs
Booking to artefact
Five steps, the middle three of which are you working rather than listening.
01
Book a seat
Seats are capped and they run out. Booking closes twenty-four hours before so the facilitator can prepare for the room they actually have.
02
Read the pre-brief
A short brief lands the day before. It takes fifteen minutes and the session assumes you did it.
03
Build in the session
Two to three hours, mostly you working, with the facilitator interrupting when your reasoning slips.
04
Present and defend
The last third is the room reading each other's work and arguing about it, which is where most of the learning lands.
05
Keep the artefact
What you built, the rubric score and the feedback are saved to your profile as evidence.
Questions
Before you book
A webinar is something you watch — large, free, recorded. A workshop is something you do — small, live, capped at sixteen seats, and you hand in work at the end. If you want to listen, book the webinar.
Yes, about fifteen minutes. A pre-brief arrives the day before and the session starts on the assumption everyone read it. Turning up cold mostly wastes your own money.
No. Small-room candour disappears the moment a recording light is on, and the value here is people saying what they actually think about your work.
Cancel more than twenty-four hours ahead and you can rebook any future session at no cost. Inside twenty-four hours the seat is gone, because it was held for you against a hard cap.
Each workshop is bought on its own, at the seat price shown on its page — there is no bundle it comes inside. A few introductory workshops run free each term; they appear on this page when scheduled.
Ten to sixteen seatsThree hours.
Three hours.
One finished thing.
Book a seat, read the pre-brief, and turn up ready to be interrupted.
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