Workshops
Hands-on sessions where you build, test, and compare notes — not webinars you watch with the tab muted.
We call ourselves collaborators.
Membership is something you have. Collaboration is something you do. Everyone here is working on something — and working on it with other people. That's why we gather.
How we collaborate here
Coworking sessions
Weekly time to make progress on your portfolio, your side project, or whatever you're avoiding. Goals at the start, updates at the end.
Project cohorts
Have an idea that needs more hands? Organizers help you recruit collaborators and form a small team. Past cohorts have practiced whiteboard challenges, written research articles, run design critiques, designed a website, and taken on a rebrand.
Podcast & articles
Collaborators share what they're building and what broke along the way — on the Designed Minds podcast and in Building Blocks, our Substack.
1:1 connections
Organizers get to know every collaborator and introduce people with shared interests and goals. Some of the best collaborations here started as a coffee chat someone set up for you.
Nobody here is in the audience.
Workshops are hands-on. Coworking is cameras-on. Podcast guests are our own collaborators. If you join, you'll show up, share your work, and give other people your honest attention. That's not a rule we enforce — it's just how this place works.
Taste the collaboration first.
Our events are public. Pick one and see how it feels in the room.
From the community
Design-builder reports
What designers built when we said "showcase yourself"
What happened when a room of designers were asked to build for an audience instead of a brief.
Read the articleHow designers are actually using AI in 2026
A single-session look at how designers are actually using AI day to day — and where they draw the line.
Read the article
Podcast episodes
What Happens When a Product Designer Becomes a Founder?
A product designer on what changed — and what didn't — the moment she started calling herself a founder.
Listen to the episodeFrom Corporate to Studio Owner: My Guide to Independence
One designer's path out of corporate and into running her own studio, step by step.
Listen to the episode
Listen to Designed Minds Podcast
Ready to build with us?
Tell us what you're working on — or what you want to be working on.