ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP18106

Designers who attend this workshop will learn:
- Strategies and principles for designing with humor;
- Methods for designing a humorous product or experience;
- How humor fits into the various stages of the user-centered design process.

The workshop will be a fun mash-up of presentation, video clips, improv exercises, co-design and sketching.

The first half-hour: A general introduction to user experience design with humor as an approach.
The second half-hour: We'll introduce and run through an improv exercise or two.
--Then we take a 15 minute break.
The second hour: We'll do some co-design activities interfused with improv activities, showing the similarities and methodologies of both.
--Then we take a 15 minute break.
The third hour: We'll watch some inspirational clips and view some inspirational humorous products and experiences. We'll finish up our prototypes.
--We'll do a quick improv wrap-up round, then we'll talk about what we've learned and anything else!

Prerequisites:
- Attendees should have a familiarity with and some basic knowledge of user-centered design and its process(es), and should have an interest in collaborative design methods.

What to Bring:
- A pen and sketchpad or notebook is recommended for the workshop, but is optional.