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Product Development Workshops

Turn ideas into clear, actionable solutions.

Collaborative, time-bound workshops that help teams clarify challenges, assess opportunities, and define a clear path forward. Whether you’re exploring a new curriculum, refreshing an existing program, or planning a digital learning experience, Product Development Workshops (PDWs) provide the structure, expertise, and momentum to move from ideas to informed action.

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Workshop Types

Each PDW is customized to your context—no templates, no one-size-fits-all approach.

PDWs are designed to bring focus to complex questions. Through facilitated collaboration and expert analysis, we help teams align on goals, surface opportunities, and leave with a shared understanding of what to build and why.

Ideation Workshop

Structured creative sessions that help teams explore possibilities, identify unmet needs, and define promising directions for new or evolving learning products and programs.

Best for:
Early-stage ideas, ambiguous challenges, or teams seeking fresh perspective and alignment.

What It’s Designed to Solve

When teams know something needs to change but aren’t yet aligned on what to build or why, the Ideation Workshop helps surface opportunities and clarify direction.

This workshop is especially useful when challenges are loosely defined, stakeholders have competing perspectives, or teams need space to think beyond existing constraints.

What Happens

Through facilitated activities and guided discussion, we help teams:

  • Explore goals, audiences, and constraints

  • Identify unmet learner or user needs

  • Generate and assess multiple solution concepts

  • Prioritize ideas based on feasibility and impact

Sessions are structured but flexible, encouraging creativity without losing focus.

What You Leave With

  • A clear articulation of the challenge and desired outcomes

  • A prioritized set of solution concepts or directions

  • Shared alignment among stakeholders

  • Recommendations for next steps

Best Fit When…

  • Ideas are early-stage or not fully formed

  • Teams feel stuck or misaligned

  • You want to explore possibilities before committing resources

Design Sprint

Focused, time-bound sprints that move quickly from concept to prototype. Test assumptions, explore user experience, and validate ideas before investing in full development.

Best for:
Teams with a defined concept who need to pressure-test ideas or visualize solutions.

What It’s Designed to Solve

When teams have a concept but need to test assumptions quickly, the Design Sprint compresses months of exploration into a focused, time-bound effort.

This format helps reduce risk before moving into full development.

What Happens

Over a short, intensive period, we work with your team to:

  • Define the core problem and success criteria

  • Map user or learner journeys

  • Develop low- to mid-fidelity prototypes

  • Gather feedback and refine concepts

The emphasis is on learning quickly, not perfection.

What You Leave With

  • Visual prototypes or experience flows

  • Validated (or challenged) assumptions

  • Clear insights into user needs and experience

  • Guidance on whether (and how) to proceed

Best Fit When…

  • A concept is defined but untested

  • Teams need to visualize and pressure-test ideas

  • Speed and clarity matter more than polish

Strategy Session

Facilitated sessions that help stakeholders align on priorities, scope, and next steps—resulting in a clear road map for execution and decision-making.

Best for:
Organizations navigating competing priorities, scaling initiatives, or planning next phases.

What It’s Designed to Solve

When teams face competing priorities, scaling decisions, or uncertainty about next steps, Strategy Sessions help bring structure and alignment to complex decision-making.

This workshop focuses less on ideation and more on clarity, sequencing, and execution.

What Happens

With expert facilitation, we help teams:

  • Align on vision, goals, and constraints

  • Assess options, risks, and tradeoffs

  • Define scope and priorities

  • Map a realistic path forward

Sessions are grounded in context, not theory.

What You Leave With

  • A clear, shared strategic direction

  • A phased roadmap with recommended next steps

  • Defined roles, responsibilities, and decision points

  • High-level budget and effort ranges

Best Fit When…

  • Multiple stakeholders need alignment

  • Programs or products are scaling or evolving

  • Decisions need to be made with confidence

What You Get

Every workshop concludes with actionable deliverables tailored to your needs.
1

Clear Problem Definition & Goals

A shared understanding of the challenge being addressed and the outcomes you’re working toward.

2

Concepts & Experience Flows

Visual models, wireframes, or structured outlines that bring ideas to life.

3

Implementation Road Map

A phased plan outlining recommended next steps, sequencing, and dependencies.

4

Budget & Effort Ranges

High-level cost and timeline estimates to support internal planning and prioritization.

Most PDWs are completed within approximately six weeks, depending on scope.

Workshop Process

A simple, structured approach that balances discovery with momentum, moving from exploration to clarity without overextending teams.

Discovery & Planning

We begin by understanding your context, goals, constraints, and audience. Challenges don’t need to be fully defined. PDWs are designed to help clarify them.

Workshop Sessions

Our learning experience designers facilitate collaborative sessions and independently review materials, systems, and inputs to inform recommendations.

Synthesis & Prototyping

We help your team translate insights into tangible concepts, models, or prototypes and refine them.

Final Recommendations & Next Steps

Your team receives a clear, documented plan with actionable recommendations, timelines, and investment ranges.

Who Should Attend

PDWs work best when multiple perspectives are represented. We recommend participation from cross-functional stakeholders.

Academic leaders & SMEs

Curriculum and instructional design leads

Product or platform owners

Technology and development partners

Executive or strategic stakeholders

Workshop Formats

Flexible formats allow PDWs to custom-fit your team’s availability, location, and pace.

Half-day sessions

Full-day intensive

Multiday sprints

Virtual workshops

On-site facilitation

Why PDWs Work

PDWs are powered by Six Red Marbles’ learning experience design approach, combining instructional design expertise, learner-centered thinking, and practical execution experience. The result is clarity without overcommitment and momentum without unnecessary risk.

What Our Clients Say

It’s been wonderful working with Six Red Marbles. The collaboration was smooth, professional, and resulted in a strong final product.

West Academic

As we looked to scale our financial literacy programs and reach younger learners, we needed a partner who could bring our curriculum to life. Six Red Marbles helped us transform strong content into an engaging, game-based experience.

Executive Director

Fit Money

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