Developing Your Improv Skills workshop
JUNE 12th 9:00AM PDT; 12:00PM EDT; 5:00 PM BST (UK); 6:00 PM CET; 10:30 PM IST
Cost: $199 (2 part, 2 hours total)
Paid member benefit: Included in your $99 a month Inner Circle membership (50% discount available for non-profits, edu or living in the global south- that’s an address in the Southern Hemisphere) for all events plus Digital Library 250+ videos, mentoring, hands-on workshops and more…
Workshop: Developing Your Improv Skills (for Designers)
Get out of your head. Get into the moment.
Improvisation is a professional skill and an essential soft skill in the UX designer and researcher repertoire.
Why it matters: Design work often demands quick thinking, active listening, and confidence in the unknown. This hands-on workshop uses improv techniques to help designers become more adaptive, collaborative, and creative. This matters especially in high-stakes conversations, service design and co-design sessions, and team sprints.
You’ll practice core improv skills like “Yes, and…”, active listening, and storytelling. Then apply them to real-world design situations. Expect to move, laugh, and build skills that stick.
Frank Spillers will build on past events like Improv for Design Innovation. In this two-part session you’ll have the chance to practice and strengthen your improv skills.
Who should attend? Great for UXers, service designers, content folks, and anyone who works with people. No improv experience needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to play.
Topics we will cover in Developing Your Improv Skills:
- 5 Keys to Building the Improv Mindset
- Blending the Power 3: Storytelling, Systems Thinking and Improv
- Exercises to build confidence, listening and conversational fluidity
- Role-playing: service prototyping, personas and more?
About UX Inner Circle Workshops:
These workshops are live events facilitated by Frank Spillers, a leading UX and Service Design consultant and trainer. Workshops involve group activities and discussions, with more hands-on experience in learning the material presented. Online workshops are included as part of your UX Inner Circle membership. They allow a deep study of UX topics, with insights drawn from process best practices and case studies from Frank Spillers two decades in the field.
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Why Join?
The UX Inner Circle is a professional learning community with a program of monthly events for UX researchers and designers, managers, and directors practicing UX and Service Design. We are a small group of currently 50 UX and Service Designers, Directors, and Researchers currently 100% working in UX. Attendees come from orgs like Harvard, Google, IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, Capital One, US Bank, healthcare, government, and non-profits. So why join?
- Refine or expand your current skills– push the boundaries of your learning.
- Get advice and guidance: Put a top-performing UX expert (Frank Spillers, CEO of award-winning UX firm Experience Dynamics and top instructor at Interaction Design Foundation) in your pocket. Stay connected with the latest on what Frank is thinking and prioritizing in UX and Service Design.
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- Get a promotion at work or upgrade your skills, portfolio, or process knowledge. This is the #1 reason folks keep subscribing to the UX Inner Circle.
| Date: | 12 Jun 2025 |
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| Time: | 09:00 am PST 12:00 pm EST 05:00 pm GMT 06:00 pm CET |
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