How to Ship Work People Actually Care About

How to Ship Work People Actually Care About

How to Ship Work People Actually Care About

Description

You've shipped work you were proud of and watched it disappear. Good research, solid craft, clean execution. And still, nothing. The onboarding flow that tested well but users abandon anyway. The feature that is logically sound but generates no conversation. The product that works everywhere and resonates nowhere.

The problem isn't quality. Most teams design for the user inside the product while missing everything happening outside it. People are looking for things that feel real, not just functional. Culture is being written and rewritten daily, and most of what gets shipped ignores this entirely. The gap between "works well" and "lands well" is where most good design quietly fails.

This workshop teaches Designing for Resonance: the skill of reading what is happening outside your product and letting it shape your decisions. Participants work through structured scenarios designed to surface what most teams miss, building the instinct through practice rather than theory. The session isn't about your product. It's about developing a new kind of design sensitivity, one that treats culture as a material, not a backdrop.

You'll leave with a resonance audit you can run on any project before it ships: questions to ask before shipping, cultural signals to track outside the product, and a framework for pressure testing whether the work will actually land with the people it's meant for.




Who is it for?

Designers, product leads, and builders who are tired of shipping work that should have landed but did not. For people who are ready to connect their design practice to what is happening in culture, not just what is in the backlog, and who want the instinct and the toolkit to make that connection stick.

Top 3 Learnings

#1

#1

#1

Develop a method for treating culture as a material that shapes design decisions, not just a context to be aware of.

Develop a method for treating culture as a material that shapes design decisions, not just a context to be aware of.

#2

#2

#2

Build a diagnostic framework for identifying the gap between functional quality and real-world adoption.

Build a diagnostic framework for identifying the gap between functional quality and real-world adoption.

#3

#3

#3

Obtain a repeatable method for evaluating whether something will connect before it goes out the door.

Obtain a repeatable method for evaluating whether something will connect before it goes out the door.

ASSESSMENT

Strategy

Strategy

Strategy

Business

Business

Business

Technical

Technical

Technical

Leadership

Leadership

Leadership

Facilitated by

Hiba Ganta

Hiba Ganta

Hiba Ganta

Product Director

Product Director

Product Director

Rare Folks

Rare Folks

Rare Folks

Hiba is an independent product and UX practitioner with over 10 years of experience across Berlin, Dubai, and Montreal. She writes about cultural intelligence as both an advantage and an anchor at a time when speed and AI are redefining what good product and design looks like.

Currently leading product for the kyu Collective, one of the world's most inspiring networks of designers, strategists, data scientists, and storytellers, she most recently took on the challenge of designing collaboration tools for 23 creative firms. Her decade with startups has taken her through countless build-measure-learn cycles across knowledge management, health and wellness, and business intelligence. Products she has shaped have been used by teams at the Skoll Foundation, GE, the Obama Foundation, Salesforce, Docker, and more.

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SEP 18

Conference Day Onsite Pass

Attend the main event on September 18th, and access 2 stages, roundtables, and onsite workshops. Includes meals and drinks.

Regular Price

€420

+19% VAT

Bundles

Bundles 2 Day & 3 Day

Attend 2 or 3 days including the Conference Day. All tickets have sold out

Regular Price

from €800

+19% VAT

WORKSHOPS

Single Day Workshops

Attend the Strategy & Biz Day or the Super IC Day individually and pick your workshop(s)

Regular Price

from €540

+19% VAT

Included with onsite ticket

Materials & Recordings

Hatch Welcome Kit

Food & Drinks

Certificate of Attendance

Accepted payment methods

Credit Card

VISA, Mastercard, AMEX

Bank Transfer

Pay with Invoice

Get Online Tickets

Onsite tickets are sold out. Online tickets available.

Onsite

Online

SEP 18

Conference Day Onsite Pass

Attend the main event on September 18th, and access 2 stages, roundtables, and onsite workshops. Includes meals and drinks.

Regular Price

€420

+19% VAT

Bundles

Bundles 2 Day & 3 Day

Attend 2 or 3 days including the Conference Day. All tickets have sold out

Regular Price

from €800

+19% VAT

WORKSHOPS

Single Day Workshop

Attend the Strategy & Biz Day or the Super IC Day individually and pick your workshop(s)

Regular Price

from €540

+19% VAT

Included with onsite ticket

Materials & Recordings

Hatch Welcome Kit

Food & Drinks

Certificate of Attendance

Accepted payment methods

Credit Card

VISA, Mastercard, AMEX

Bank Transfer

Pay with Invoice

Get Online Tickets

Onsite tickets are sold out. Online tickets available.

Onsite

Online

SEP 18

Conference Day Onsite Pass

Attend the main event on September 18th, and access 2 stages, roundtables, and onsite workshops. Includes meals and drinks.

Regular Price

€420

+19% VAT

Includes access, food & drinks, materials and certificate of attendance

Accepted payment methods

Credit Card

VISA, Mastercard, AMEX

Bank Transfer

Pay with Invoice

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