This first round of chats helped facilitators get a feel for the audience in advance, and the questions we noted down during the “trade show” became our starting point for the afternoon sessions.
Breaking the Ice
Following the trade-show, Michelle Lee suggested an icebreaker game I cannot fail to mention.
We created an imaginary axis across our space anchored by two controversial opinions. After Michelle read each statement related to the session topic, then participants arranged themselves buy sales lead along the line : What did they think? How strongly did they feel? Was there agreement? thorniest questions in our field:
“For any decentralized app that appears I can build a centralised one that performs faster.”
“Users don’t need to understand decentralisation to benefit from it.”
“We need to abandon UX of centralised web to create excellent experiences for the decentralized web.”
“In the last week of work, did you create for end users or for developers?”
The physicality of this exercise brought to life the strong feelings many of us feel about these answers. After each question, we also dove into explaining why we felt the way we do. A few of the more interesting answers:
Question: “Users have to understand how decentralized technology works to benefit from it.”