Live Classes

MASTER INTERACTIVE CONTENT DESIGN

Live Classes

Facilitated hands-on co-design event in which you learn to create next-gen transitional interfaces and social apps that matter.

CO-CREATION EVENTS WITH REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES

Design Challenges

By utilizing a standardized problem-sensing approach and incorporating lived experiences, we aim to find effective solutions to today's problems.

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Live Classes are given Sunday 14:00 CET

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Design Challenges

DESIGN CHALLENGE WEB 3

News 3.0

How might we fix our broken News format?

Recurring online sessions to find solutions to our broken news-format.

We first pre-design a workflow to guide our sessions and draw from our own experiences and research to help us come up with new ideas. We are not afraid to face these challenges head-on. Because news today is literally a network problem.

DESIGN CHALLENGE WEB 3

Truth Finder

How might we design with data over time.

Truth Finding will be the challenge for this decade. How can we find truth quicker by bring quality decision-making and problem-solving into our digital networks? It's seems that time & re-evaluation is the enemy of false information.

Request an intake today.

Live Classes

LIVE CLASS / WEB (THIS SUNDAY)

Interactive Content Design for Blockchain.

How might we Humanize our software design by making information actionable in our private spaces?

Designing with data across chain gives us an array of new potential, but also a lot of design challenges. How can we overcome inherent problems like data-cost, block-height & meta data-tracking, and design new revenue stream opportunities as we go?

LIVE CLASS / WEB2 & WEB3

Conversational Networks create, deliver & measure Interactive Content at scale.

How might we make data actionable across blockchain?

We found a way to make information actionable and create and deploy Social Apps (novel interactive content) that tailors to individual, collective and planetary needs. By designing personal assistants that raise awareness, and push and nudge people into action we can truly offset the pressure on the planet for good.

A lot of solutions to do better are already out there, but there is no way to deploy and validate this knowledge at scale. By making information actionable in our networks, we can create real-social technology that advances humanity by unlocking our Collective Genius.

Future Live class

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Innovation starts where cognitive diversity collides.

For whom?
Social Design Academy connects and trains digital product designers and organisations that take digital social responsibility to solve real-world problems. We often look inwards in our organisation when it comes to problem-solving, but creating, deploying and measuring interactive content enables us to achieve true social impact and find new virtual revenue streams by looking outwards.

Make information actionable through interactive content design.
We still separate education and application in our daily lives. But change is too fast, so our legacy methods can't keep up. By bringing information and decision-making into our digital networks we can discover new ways to achieve true social impact.

Sign up today and build next-gen transitional interfaces and interactive content together.

FORM GUIDE How would you describe yourself? A Business Analyst, Outlier, Designer or Customer? Our motto Everybody is a designer.

Niels Kijf Facilitator

Niels Kijf Facilitator

Niels is a digital design innovator and started the Social Design Academy to gather people around public interest technology and real social software design.

He is a pattern recognizer. He has a strong will to design blockchain software that benefits society. He learns, teaches, fails and continues. His drive is overwhelming as it is intoxicating.

He doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, but doesn’t aim for perfection either. His matra:

I Listen without disruption
I think in solitude
I design in collaboration
I tell to involve and evolve people

He has a strong believe that designing interactive content instead of static pages, will bring back ethics and new meaningful revenue models to the digital space.

You can wake him in the night to talk about meaningful business models, novel education systems, distributed decision making, and building personal assistants that deliver on personal and collective development goals.

For whom?

Design challenges are for change makers that want to tackle the worlds biggest problems by rethinking our problem-solving in itself.

For people and teams that want to make the world a better place by designing interactive content that really has a positive impact on people's lives.

Let's build novel educational technology together and design new interactive content and deployment formats that guide and nudge people to their goals.

LEARNING BY DESIGNING CONVERSATIONS

Digital Governance

Co-creation Events by SDA.

ETHICAL DESIGN FOR DIGITAL NETWORKS

We never learned to bring our values and principles into our digital network. Understanding your hierarchy of needs, helps you make better decisions, for your personal live and where you want to use your energy. The time to change our design attitude and learn to design with principles is now.

MASTER DIGITAL GOVERNANCE TOGETHER

Our software development methods and content formats have become outdated. To revitalize your content strategy, adopt an Assistant-Centered Design approach, which moves away from colonial design thinking and embraces collaboration. This mindset shift helps break down silos and fosters a more inclusive and participatory design process for digital governance solutions.

CO-CREATION AS GOVERNANCE

Revisit the origins of the internet and its evolution over the past 25 years. Despite advancements, the centralization of technology solutions in big tech has hindered progress.

Rethink traditional design methods and content formats, such as page-based design and reliance on video. Consider the relationship between real-life organization and digital design.

Join the Design Challenge movement and embrace co-creation as a form of governance to unlearn old methods and collectively learn and progress.

Join AS co-creator

Social Design Academy brings individuals and organisations together, using Co-creation as Governance to solve real-world problems. By standardising problem-sensing we take away a lot of frustration seen in non-structured co-creation sessions today.

Want to join the 'Fix the broken news-format' or want to bring a Design Challenge, consider signing up.

FORM GUIDE How would you describe yourself? A Business Analyst, Outlier, Designer or Customer? Our motto Everybody is a designer.

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Unlearn / Relearn

Unlearn what you know, and jump in the exiting world of need based software design.

Conversational Interaction design enables us to design our software front-end in a consistent way and focus on value creation, instead of feature building.

Digital conversations combine social design with digital product design and raises the bar for meaningful content delivery.

 

Live Classes

The newest collaboration tools will enable us to show that a design system without a new way of working does not level up your design skills.

Co-intelligence is at the core of social design and in our live-classes we use Social UX and converasational interaction design in tandem. Strap in.

Co-study & Co-design

Learning always works best in teams of 3-6, find you peer, set your design challenge and build together.

Weekly Challenges.

From Design Critiques, Design Ping Pong, to UX review, learning is always more fun with practical challenges. Every week we review our work together.

Online Courses

For our online courses we use Learndash, the award winning software for learning at your own pace. All courses have question sessions included, so if you are stuck we are always here to help out.

Design in motion

Design must evoke and digital storytelling and wayfinding doesn’t become immersive when things are static on the screen. 

Motion design is a core skill at the Social Design Academy. Join us and lets put conversations in motion.

Questions?

Have question join our discord server, there is always someone to help you out.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Rebuild as Assistant

“Designing for Human Activities and Routines really helps in simplifying our software, and deliver true value. Designing our own ecosystem and being able to design digital conversations really helped us to scale our story. Being able to involve people is amazing.”

Next Gen Digital Governance using privacy by design

“Privacy by design is as simple of an insight, as it’s practical to use. Being able to able to keep the data in the users pocket while have an open communication channel with our audiences is truly a revolutionary find in digital product design.”

We didn’t realize how harsh our software was.

“Now we use Conversational Interaction Design we see how harsh and impolite our software actually was. Being able to design for time, location and context is real eyeopener. Situational aware Assistants are an exciting new field.”

Weekly Conversational Challenges

Conversational Interface Examples

COURSE FORMAT

How you will learn

Online Self study Course
We use Learndash to give you an online course experience, all courses are accompanied with live clases.
Live clases
Bringing knowledge into practise is the best way to learn. In live classes we teach you how to transpose a page based interaction design into digital conversations.
Design Challenges
Every month we run design challenges. We focus on wallet blockchain patterns to make cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Your Peers / Co-study & Co-design
We always create teams of three, so learning is fun, and you can help each other when you are stuck. And makes learning a lot of fun.
Time commitment
Most courses can be completed in 4 weeks. But rushing learning never helps, better to do a couple of hours a week, than push all energy into an effort that feels like an obligation.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a hands on course for change makers that want to ideate and design real social software. For people and teams that want to make the world a better place designing software that matters.

This course is for software designers and developers that want to level up their experience design and build a consistent engaging conversational interfaces that are easy to use, feel natural, and guide people to their goals.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This course is for anyone working in the field of Learning and Development or Change and Transformation and needs to add design and facilitation of online processes as an essential skill. Our typical participants include members of Heads of Leadership Development, Chief HR, Transformation Directors, Change Management Leaders, Learning Designers, Facilitators and similar roles who are responsible for the development and delivery of learning experiences or transformative processes.

Sign up for this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

ADA 499,-

Commonism: A Path to Collective Well-being

In a world marked by stark inequality, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation, it is increasingly evident that the current economic and political systems are failing us. Despite the promises of capitalism and neoliberalism, they have led to the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, leaving many behind. It is time for a new vision, a new way of thinking, a new paradigm. It is time for Commonism.

Commonism is not just an economic system, but a way of life. It is based on the principles of solidarity, cooperation, mutual aid, and collective decision-making. It recognizes the interdependence of human beings and the natural world, and seeks to build a society that is equitable, just, and sustainable.

At the heart of Commonism is the idea that the community is the basic unit of society. It is through the community that people can best meet their material, social, and emotional needs. In a communityist society, people work together to create the goods and services they need, rather than relying on the market to allocate resources. This not only ensures that everyone’s basic needs are met, but also fosters a sense of shared purpose and meaning.

Commonism is also characterized by a deep commitment to participatory democracy. Rather than leaving decisions to politicians or bureaucrats, people in a communityist society are directly involved in making decisions that affect their lives. This fosters a sense of ownership and responsibility for the community, and ensures that decisions are made in the best interests of everyone, rather than just a select few.

Another key aspect of Commonism is its focus on sustainability. This means not just reducing our carbon footprint, but also building resilient communities that can adapt to changing circumstances. It involves creating local, self-reliant economies that are not dependent on distant corporations or extractive industries. It means building a society that is rooted in the land, the water, and the natural cycles of life.

In a world that is increasingly divided and polarized, Commonism offers a way forward. By building strong, connected communities that are based on shared values and a sense of common purpose, we can create a more just and equitable society. It is not just an economic system, but a way of being in the world.

In the end, Commonism is about reclaiming our humanity. It is about recognizing that we are all in this together, and that we must work together to create a world that is worthy of our collective aspirations. It is about building a society that is based on love, compassion, and care for one another and the planet. It is a path to collective well-being.

We need to rethink our cryptocurrency wallet design for mass adoption

Introduction

Blockchain is a new design paradigm that aims to make the world a better place by bringing ownership of cryptographic money to the people. Yet a lot of misinformation is being spread to make people fearful about cryptocurrency.

Mainstream often confuse blockchain and cryptocurrency, where cryptocurrency is a use-case of blockchain. Another confusing factor is centralized and de-centralized exchanges, of which the centralized exchanges give cryptocurrency a bad rap, which is often the result of human error instead of cryptocurrency in itself. And even for me, reading back that sentence, makes it bluntly obvious that we got to educate the mainstream in new ways.

We can’t blame people for this misunderstanding, because we do a really bad job at getting our meaningful stories across.

If we want people to mass-adopt cryptocurrencies we need to start educating people in a safe environment and level up our wallet design.

We need to rethink how we combine utility, education and hospitality into our wallet designs, so they become an onboarding powerhouse for family and friends. Bringing in the social factor, and getting invited by a real-life friend changes the game drastically, and results in a viral loop that should not be under-estimated.

Value blindspots are the real problem

Problem 1 – Wallet builders are so well informed about the value of the cryptocurrency they implement that they have a blind spot to teach people about specifics and the implications that come with being your own personal bank. Of which not your keys, not your crypto is probably the most important one, but I had a friend who proudly wrote down this public key, thinking that was the code to recover his wallet with. So we have a lot of in-wallet education to do.

Problem 2 – Teams often focus on unlocking the functionality the blockchain offers but forget to tell what the wallet is for and how it should be used. How to buy a specific cryptocurrency is often not explained at all, a real value-blindspot. We fail to see that we need to design onboarding paths, and not just focus on delivering transaction utilities.

Problem 3 – In page-based design it is much harder to design for multiple expert levels like novice and expert. It’s difficult and labour intensive to build a true personalised experiences. Changes in specs often result in total re-designs. The result, a feature heavy interfaces in which education about the specific cryptocurrency is often forgotten.

Problem 4 – Page-based design and linear – one session – interactions are getting old. We must learn to design for the waning attention span and the associative nature of people. Our wallets are not only for transactions, they will be used for voting, continuous grading, and digital governance in the future. It’s time to rethink our wallet interface design today so the functionalities and governance abilities of blockchains align with our future expectations.

Problem 5 – Another big issue is that it seems that most wallets are built for browsers, but these browser extensions don’t work on mobile. We should not design for big screens only, and aim for mass adoption by making our cryptocurrency wallets available for use in our (non 15minute) cities. Creating a device agnostic conversational interfaces is a blessing in disguise, as it removes technology complexity, and is AR/VR ready at the same time.

Problem 6 – We push educational aspects of cryptocurrencies in other channels, like training services, websites or youtube videos but that information can be faulty, incomplete or simply a scam.

Problem 7 – Our wallet don’t create a trust-worthy acces-point, current wallets provide linear interface on distributed ledger technology. We miss to bring experiences and engagement into our wallet design, probably due to the separation of technology, product, and marketing in our real world.

These seven issues are just the top of the iceberg, but block mass adoption for non-technical family and friends.
Lets build social activation into our wallets and create true viral loops.

Problems in summary 

Current wallet software separates utility, education and hospitality, creating a barrier for people to enter and trust the crypto space, blocking a hidden potential for mass-adoption.

The solution? A new chat-like interface for cryptocurrency wallets, that makes information actionable.

We are in need for a new user-friendly onboarding system that drives adoption at scale.

Niels Kijf has done a lot of design research on how we can remediate our wallet interface design for mass-adoption. The short and technical answer is that we need to turn page-based blockchain design patterns and transform them into screen-first interactive conversations.

Introducing: Conversational Interaction Design

Niels has developed a new interaction design approach called Conversational Interaction Design. Which can be roughly translated into a dialog method for interactive decision making.

Instead of telling people what to do, a relic from our page-based design approach, we ask people what they know and what they want to learn and achieve. Assisting people in reaching new goals is part of this new design mindset.

This new design approach results in a new chat-like and visual micro-learning system that allows us to design for novice and expert users. Resulting in a novel design system for a new generation of Conversational Wallets.

Solution Summary

By using story-driven onboarding in our cryptocurrency wallets we combine utility, education and hospitality. Conversational wallets clear the road to mass-adoption, and create a scalable, user friendly and trustworthy access point for non-technical family and friends.

And yes, this infrastructure must be available for others too (wallet connect is not the solution for distributed decision making), making wallets the drivers for a conversational network in which people can build their own.

Design for mass-adoption and take action.

Is your team still designing linear wallet features in pages? Did you catch yourself on some other value-blindspots? (Siloing utility and education, focus on big screens only, or focus on enabling blockchain functionality only, ..) Not to worry. Niels is has a live-class to teach wallet teams how to change their design attitude from pages to interactive conversations. 

Want to be kept in the loop about live-classes for your team? Sign up and join our Design Challenge Movement. 

Let’s level up the UX in the blockchain space together, one team, one interactive conversation at a time.
Choose to change your wallet design approach for the better, and Sign up today

Like all writing on cryptocurrency and blockchain, this first write up, will evolve over time.
Consider joining the Social Design Academy Discord if you want to join these conversations to humanize our wallet/software design.

We need to rethink how we embed digital money and build fair technology for society.

Social Design Academy
We facilitate educational experiences and co-creation events with Agencies, Impactful Brands & Cities that want to design a fairer digital world.

We help meaningful brands, that want to do good for people and the planet, scale their story with assistant-centered design. Conversational brands change their software design attitude; Colonial becomes collaborative, and Applications become Assistants. Talking about work, becomes making information actionable, and we don’t design pages, but digital stories and interactive conversations.

Yes, we have been busy and invented conversational interaction design, it not only makes your software natural and pleasant, but also makes you AI output, and blockchain ready in the process.

Designing conversations is the blindspot in software design, because our cognitive dissonance screams that chatbots are annoying. And they are, but we can also us conversation design is a manual way, a way that’s closer to application design, but we design conversations instead of pages.

Design storylines and onboard people in your micro-learning environment.
What conversations do we need to have? What questions do we need to ask to reach a certain outcome? How do we use moral imagination to rethink how we embed digital money in our society? Are we building a dystopian surveillance economy or a cohesive civil economy?

How we embed fair money and technology in society will be the trending topic for this decade.

We have two options:

  1. Technologize Humans (Trans-humanism)
  2. Humanize Technology (Communityism)

We believe that weak leaders want to use technology for control, and strong leaders want to build fair technology for freedom. We believe in the second path and want to co-create fair money and technology that unlocks our greatest human potential through collective decision-making.

Conversational brands resonate their meaningful stories across the world by co-building digital storytelling infrastructure that delivers interactive content to positively impact in the world. Earning back by profiting from Conversational Apps, The Timewarp Conversational Network and the Timewarp Assistant Design License.


Social Innovation is not an experiment
We must evolve our businesses, embrace ethical & moral design, and get ready for the future, we need to move beyond designing for convenience or status. Every meaningful brand plays a role in Social Innovation, and the Social Design Academy wants to show the path towards new and future proof design paradigms. If we really want to unlock our greatest human potential we need to un-silo, and re-connect our minds with our heart.

Social Design Academy as hub for cooperatives
Social Design Academy is a hub for conversational software cooperation and coordination and supports social entrepreneurs and builders that want to use software to build a truthful, beautiful, artful, adventurous, and peaceful future. Because the future belongs to everybody.

Design Digital Design attitude shifts to Empower Society.
It’s time to build Conversational Networks by building Assistants instead of Applications.
It’s time to build a Social Appstore outside of the walled gardens.
It’s time to build Conversational Wallets, not utility/transaction focused wallets.
It’s time to move from creators economy, to economy creators.
It’s time for Digital Governance that brings collective decision making into our digital networks.
To able to do this we need to remediate page-based interaction design into conversational interaction design,
and design across blockchain, not on top of blockchain.

Our keywords:
Future Realities Today
Monetize Digital Storytelling & Interactive Content to empower the individual and the collective.
Self-understanding, Truth Finding & Earth consciousness.

Let’s level up ethics and morals in the blockchain space together:
Join our Design Challenge Movement →

Digital Governance Design

Conversational
Governance
Design

Co-design and monetize digital storytelling, self-governance, and interactive content, bringing collective decision-making into our digital networks.

Our centralized governance models are too slow, dehumanize society, because they fail to keep people at the center of decision-making.

keywords: Collective Decision Making, Social Ledger technology, 21st-century.

Conversational Governance Design

Social Design Academy is working on co-creation tools and fair data governance models for web3 that are grounded in privacy by design. We are remediating our page-based front-ends into digital conversations, so we created a design language for digital storytelling, self-governance and interactive content.

Timewarp is the design system and innovation platform that humanizes and evolves our software design by bringing decision-making into our digital networks. Conversational Governance Design is based on 10 months of design research and has shown that we can turn our blockchain design patterns into interactive conversations.

Introducing an onboarding and mass adoption approach for cryptocurrency and blockchain by combining utility, education, and hospitality in conversational learning streams. Remediation of our software takes time, but we are excited to have found a path toward distributed decision-making, as we believe conversational design and conversational governance design are the answer to 21st-century problems.

Webinars: Sign up today and get access to 4 free webinars.
Worksheets: Access to the downloads area.
Price: ₳ TBA / Free for Cardano Project Catalyst funded projects

License & Accreditation

Timewarp - Future Design License

Methods, workshops, exercises, templates and formats to unleash our greatest human potential with non-linear conversational software design.

SOCIAL LEDGER TECHNOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

Our mission is to humanize our wallet design and bring distributed decision making to the the blockchain space.

Social Design Academy

Educational Program

Conversational Governance Design for the 21st Century. Methods, workshops, exercises, templates, and formats to bring distributed decision-making into our digital networks through using non-linear conversational software design.

Community Innovation Platform

Our current governance models are becoming too slow. Information overload is the biggest problem that makes people passive. Design what matters in a new conversational network, for the people by the people.

Our Rebuild as Assistant course is a systematic approach that results in a social interface layer that connects your audiences and removes feature-creep from your software by asking people what they need.

Let's humanize our software design, and replace page-based design with conversational interaction design and build Virtual Assistants in which you can monetize digital storytelling.

In this course we will rebuild Cardano Wallet software into digital conversations, turning a software application into a Virtual Assistant. This course shows a better way to match the fluidness of sound money with a new front-end approach that is screen agnostic and AR/VR ready.

THIS COURSE IS SPONSORED BY CARDANO PROJECT CATALYST

The In-wallet onboarding educational project and the Rebuild as Assistant course are funded by Project Catalyst.

Therefor this course is free for funded Cardano Catalyst projects that want to make the world a better place.

Social Design Academy promotes the creation of software that benefits society as a whole. The world is still designing software for the individual, it's time that we design software that connects the virtual and real world in meaningful ways. Our mission Humanize and Democratize Web3 design and our motto: "Build Global, Stay local."

Are you not funded by Cardano Project Catalyst? No worries, if you feel you would benefit from real social software design and aim to make the world a better place, reach out and tell us your story.

Five study area’s

Conversation Design Principles
Design principles are vision statements for your project, they are the boundaries for your thought direction. They ground the stance you want to defend as team, and guide the decision making in your work. Without design principles your decision making will be prone to human bias and opinion.
Even Energy Distribution
Because of our linear mindset we often spend most time in designing in the before stage of our application. The energy distribution in during and after stages are often neglected, but create a lot of chaos in the process. Social Design aims for an even energy distribution leading to a pleasant and friendly product people love.
Story Structures
Expectation management in digital product design is almost non existent. Take your audience on a engaging experience and guide them where they are, and what they need by asking questions instead of telling them what to do.
Data Structures
Depending on your domain data standardization can be of paramount importance, Conversation Design uses standardized UX KPI’s so research in your domain is included.
Container Principle
Our data governance is broken as we coerce users in our domain, we must design with data in motion in a changing world. Keep your data in context, ask for actors consent. By giving Everybody an Assistant that keeps a check on personal data, your data become a study of self.
Niels Kijf Course Leader

Niels Kijf Course Leader

Niels is a digital design innovator pur sang and started the Social Design Academy to gather people around real social software design.

He is a pattern recognizer. He has a strong will to design software that benefits society. He learns, teaches, fails and continues. His drive is overwhelming as it is intoxicating.

He doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, but doesn’t aim for perfection either. His matra:

I Listen without disruption
I think in solitude
I design in collaboration
I tell to involve and evolve people

He has a strong believe that designing digital conversations instead of pages, will bring back ethics to digital design.

Join the Timewarp Project

Humanize our software together.

The Timewarp project asks for co-creation across blockchains. Making cryptocurrency wallets ready for family and friends by providing conversational onboarding scripts that deliver truly personalized onboarding experiences.

We still focus on technology, but conversational experience design enables us to combine utility, education, and hospitality in our web3 design, bringing use-cases and mass-adoption to the crypto and blockchain industry.

This means to have to remediate our page-based interaction design into conversational interaction design. Reach out if you want to learn more, or do a session with one of our conversational interface design experts.

LEARNING GOALS

What you will learn in this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

PREPARATION AND SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT

You can only improve your software if you have set clear boundaries for your product segments.

HUMANIZE SOFTWARE DESIGN

Learn to transpose functional software design into a humane experience, and create experience maps instead of features.

WRITE CONVERSATIONAL SCREENPLAYS

Learn to design digital conversations instead of pages, and create a hospitable experience for your audiences.

SCALE YOUR STORY

Instead of providing static flows, start involving people in your Assistant development, and grow into a co-creation ecosystem. learn to design engaging web3 environments and start designing digital conversations today.

THE TIMEWARP PROJECT

Unlearn / Relearn

Unlearn what you know, and jump in the exiting world of vales based assistant design.

Conversational Interaction design enables us to design our software front-end in a consistent way and focus on value creation, instead of feature building.

Digital conversations combine social design with digital product design and raises the bar for software design for web3.

 

Co-study & Co-design

Learning always works best in teams of 3, find you peer, set your social design challenge and build together.

Weekly Challenges.

From Design Critiques, Design Ping Pong, to UX review, learning is always more fun with practical challenges. Every week we review exceptional work together.

Live Classes

The newest collaboration tools will enable us to show that a design system without a new way of working does not level up your design skills.

Co-intelligence is at the core of social design and in our live-classes we use Social UX and converasational interaction design in tandem. Strap in.

Design in motion

Design must evoke and digital storytelling and wayfinding doesn’t become immersive when things are static on the screen. 

Motion design is a core skill at the Social Design Academy. Join us and let put web3 in motion.

Questions?

Have question join our discord server, there is always someone to help you out.

Online Courses

For our online courses we use Learndash, the award winning software for learning at your own pace. All courses have question sessions included, so if you are stuck we are always here to help out.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Timewarp Design Program

“Designing for Human Activities and Routines really helps in simplifying our software, and deliver true value from the first moment of contact. Designing our own ecosystem and being able to design digital and interactive conversations really helped us to scale our hope narrative. Being able to involve people, instead of talking to people is amazing.”

Next Gen Digital Governance using privacy by design

“Privacy by design is as simple of an insight, as it’s practical to use. Being able to able to keep the data in the users pocket while have an open communication channel with our audiences is truly a revolutionary find in digital product design.”

We didn’t realize how harsh our software was.

“Now we use Conversational Experience Design we see how harsh and impolite our software actually was. Being able to design for time, location and context is real eyeopener. Situational aware Assistants are an exciting new field. It’s strange how blind we can be if we keep ourselves locked up in our offices, or at home for that matter.”

Weekly Conversational Challenges

Conversational Interface Examples

COURSE FORMAT

How you will learn

Online Self study Course
We use Learndash to give you an online course experience, all courses are accompanied with live clases.
Live clases
Bringing knowledge into practise is the best way to learn. In live classes we teach you how to transpose a page based interaction design into digital conversations.
Design Challenges
Every month we run design challenges. We focus on wallet blockchain patterns to make cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Your Peers / Co-study & Co-design
We always create teams of three, so learning is fun, and you can help each other when you are stuck. And makes learning a lot of fun.
Time commitment
Most courses can be completed in 4 weeks. But rushing learning never helps, better to do a couple of hours a week, than push all energy into an effort that feels like an obligation.

For who is Timewarp

For brands and agencies that believe in the wellbeing economy.

The is a hands on materials in the TImewarp Design Program are for change makers that want to ideate and design real social software. For people and teams that want to make the world a better place designing software that matters.

This design program is for software designers and developers that want to level up their experience design and build a consistent engaging conversational interfaces that are easy to use, feel natural, and guide people to their goals.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This course is for anyone working in the field of Learning and Development or Change and Transformation and needs to add design and facilitation of online processes as an essential skill. Our typical participants include members of Heads of Leadership Development, Chief HR, Transformation Directors, Change Management Leaders, Learning Designers, Facilitators and similar roles who are responsible for the development and delivery of learning experiences or transformative processes.

Sign up for this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

ADA 499,-

Timewarp Design program

Timewarp Design program

The educational network for social learning and distributed problem solving.

Timewarp

Centralized control through AI/ML does not lead us to a humane future we all deserve. Centralized control over transactions will lead to de-humanization of society.

Weak leaders want control, strong leaders want to enable people to do their best work.

That's why we are working on a co-creation network for social learning and distributed problem solving. We developed a conversational interaction design method that allows you to combine utility, education and hospitality in interactive content streams.

Tell and people forget, show and people remember, and involve and people understand. Interested? Want to make your subject matter actionable, reach out.

Webinars: Sign up today and get access to 4 free webinars.
Worksheets: Access to the downloads area.
Price: ₳ TBA / Free for Cardano Project Catalyst funded projects

Become a build partner

Timewarp

The co-creation network aimed at achieving meaningful outcomes through assisted learning and distributed problem-solving techniques, fostering collaboration and creativity among its participants.

Social Design Academy

Educational Program

Conversational Wallet Design & Digital Governance Design for the 21st Century. Methods, workshops, exercises, templates and formats to Systemize Social Innovation using non-linear conversational blockchain wallet design.

Community Innovation Platform

Our current governance models are becoming too slow. Information overload is the biggest problem that makes people passive. Design what matters in a new conversational network, for the people by the people.

Our Rebuild as Assistant course is a systematic approach that results in a social interface layer that connects your audiences and removes feature-creep from your software by asking people what they need.

Let's humanize our software design, and replace page-based design with conversational interaction design and build Virtual Assistants in which you can monetize digital storytelling.

In this course we will rebuild Cardano Wallet software into digital conversations, turning a software application into a Virtual Assistant. This course shows a better way to match the fluidness of sound money with a new front-end approach that is screen agnostic and AR/VR ready.

THIS COURSE IS SPONSORED BY CARDANO PROJECT CATALYST

The In-wallet onboarding educational project and the Rebuild as Assistant course are funded by Project Catalyst.

Therefor this course is free for funded Cardano Catalyst projects that want to make the world a better place.

Social Design Academy promotes the creation of software that benefits society as a whole. The world is still designing software for the individual, it's time that we design software that connects the virtual and real world in meaningful ways. Our mission Humanize and Democratize Web3 design and our motto: "Build Global, Stay local."

Are you not funded by Cardano Project Catalyst? No worries, if you feel you would benefit from real social software design and aim to make the world a better place, reach out and tell us your story.

Five study area’s

Conversation Design Principles
Design principles are vision statements for your project, they are the boundaries for your thought direction. They ground the stance you want to defend as team, and guide the decision making in your work. Without design principles your decision making will be prone to human bias and opinion.
Even Energy Distribution
Because of our linear mindset we often spend most time in designing in the before stage of our application. The energy distribution in during and after stages are often neglected, but create a lot of chaos in the process. Social Design aims for an even energy distribution leading to a pleasant and friendly product people love.
Story Structures
Expectation management in digital product design is almost non existent. Take your audience on a engaging experience and guide them where they are, and what they need by asking questions instead of telling them what to do.
Data Structures
Depending on your domain data standardization can be of paramount importance, Conversation Design uses standardized UX KPI’s so research in your domain is included.
Container Principle
Our data governance is broken as we coerce users in our domain, we must design with data in motion in a changing world. Keep your data in context, ask for actors consent. By giving Everybody an Assistant that keeps a check on personal data, your data become a study of self.
Niels Kijf Course Leader

Niels Kijf Course Leader

Niels is a digital design innovator pur sang and started the Social Design Academy to gather people around real social software design.

He is a pattern recognizer. He has a strong will to design software that benefits society. He learns, teaches, fails and continues. His drive is overwhelming as it is intoxicating.

He doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, but doesn’t aim for perfection either. His matra:

I Listen without disruption
I think in solitude
I design in collaboration
I tell to involve and evolve people

He has a strong believe that designing digital conversations instead of pages, will bring back ethics to digital design.

Join the Timewarp Program

Humanize our Assistants together.

The Timewarp program asks for co-creation across blockchains. Making cryptocurrency wallets ready for family and friends will benefit us all. Because our wallets are the next bastion and the permissioned alternative doesn't promise to be very humane. Let's level up blockchain design patterns into digital conversations together, and work towards an innovation platform for global and local development goals.

LEARNING GOALS

What you will learn in this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

PREPARATION AND SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT

You can only improve your software if you have set clear boundaries for your product segments.

HUMANIZE SOFTWARE DESIGN

Learn to transpose functional software design into a humane experience, and create experience maps instead of features.

WRITE CONVERSATIONAL SCREENPLAYS

Learn to design digital conversations instead of pages, and create a hospitable experience for your audiences.

SCALE YOUR STORY

Instead of providing static flows, start involving people in your Assistant development, and grow into a co-creation ecosystem. learn to design engaging web3 environments and start designing digital conversations today.

THE TIMEWARP PROGRAM

Unlearn / Relearn

Unlearn what you know, and jump in the exiting world of vales based assistant design.

Conversational Interaction design enables us to design our software front-end in a consistent way and focus on value creation, instead of feature building.

Digital conversations combine social design with digital product design and raises the bar for software design for web3.

 

Co-study & Co-design

Learning always works best in teams of 3, find you peer, set your social design challenge and build together.

Weekly Challenges.

From Design Critiques, Design Ping Pong, to UX review, learning is always more fun with practical challenges. Every week we review exceptional work together.

Live Classes

The newest collaboration tools will enable us to show that a design system without a new way of working does not level up your design skills.

Co-intelligence is at the core of social design and in our live-classes we use Social UX and converasational interaction design in tandem. Strap in.

Design in motion

Design must evoke and digital storytelling and wayfinding doesn’t become immersive when things are static on the screen. 

Motion design is a core skill at the Social Design Academy. Join us and let put web3 in motion.

Questions?

Have question join our discord server, there is always someone to help you out.

Online Courses

For our online courses we use Learndash, the award winning software for learning at your own pace. All courses have question sessions included, so if you are stuck we are always here to help out.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Timewarp Design Program

“Designing for Human Activities and Routines really helps in simplifying our software, and deliver true value from the first moment of contact. Designing our own ecosystem and being able to design digital and interactive conversations really helped us to scale our hope narrative. Being able to involve people, instead of talking to people is amazing.”

Next Gen Digital Governance using privacy by design

“Privacy by design is as simple of an insight, as it’s practical to use. Being able to able to keep the data in the users pocket while have an open communication channel with our audiences is truly a revolutionary find in digital product design.”

We didn’t realize how harsh our software was.

“Now we use Conversational Experience Design we see how harsh and impolite our software actually was. Being able to design for time, location and context is real eyeopener. Situational aware Assistants are an exciting new field. It’s strange how blind we can be if we keep ourselves locked up in our offices, or at home for that matter.”

Weekly Conversational Challenges

Conversational Interface Examples

COURSE FORMAT

How you will learn

Online Self study Course
We use Learndash to give you an online course experience, all courses are accompanied with live clases.
Live clases
Bringing knowledge into practise is the best way to learn. In live classes we teach you how to transpose a page based interaction design into digital conversations.
Design Challenges
Every month we run design challenges. We focus on wallet blockchain patterns to make cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Your Peers / Co-study & Co-design
We always create teams of three, so learning is fun, and you can help each other when you are stuck. And makes learning a lot of fun.
Time commitment
Most courses can be completed in 4 weeks. But rushing learning never helps, better to do a couple of hours a week, than push all energy into an effort that feels like an obligation.

For who is Timewarp

For brands and agencies that believe in the wellbeing economy.

The is a hands on materials in the TImewarp Design Program are for change makers that want to ideate and design real social software. For people and teams that want to make the world a better place designing software that matters.

This design program is for software designers and developers that want to level up their experience design and build a consistent engaging conversational interfaces that are easy to use, feel natural, and guide people to their goals.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This course is for anyone working in the field of Learning and Development or Change and Transformation and needs to add design and facilitation of online processes as an essential skill. Our typical participants include members of Heads of Leadership Development, Chief HR, Transformation Directors, Change Management Leaders, Learning Designers, Facilitators and similar roles who are responsible for the development and delivery of learning experiences or transformative processes.

Sign up for this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

ADA 499,-

Conversational Wallet Design

HUMANIZE OUR WALLET DESIGN

Conversational
Wallet
Design.

It’s time to humanize society by bringing conversation design and story-structures to our wallet design.

Our current interaction design misses the story-structures we humans so desperately need. Fractal design, digital storytelling and resumable interactive content are the core component we need to build conversational wallets today. Curious? Read on.

Conversational Wallet Design is the perspective-shift we need.

Our linear page-based interfaces are getting old. AI/ML is on the rise, but if we want to keep a humane society and build the future we want, we need to bring screenwriting to our wallet design.

Our current social platforms only deliver on setup and conflict, but offer no tools for resolution, nor plot twists, this lack of empathy fuels toxicity and frustration, and turns people into the product. The same applies to our wallet design.

Conversational Wallet Design and Distributed Decision making are the answer to the de-humanizing rise of AI. Our future depends on Thinking x Feeling, on empathy, creativity and strategy.

Conversational Wallet Design brings screenwriting to wallet design, resulting in meaningful conversations with self, and/or between groups. Life evolves through interactions so boosting meaningful participation by rethinking our wallet design should be on everybody's agenda.

Conversation Wallet Design is a human design process that results in conversational apps that declutter and empower people in their daily lives.

It’s time to humanize Society by bringing screenwriting to our wallet design.

Where: Discord / Miro board
Worksheets: Available on Miro board

DESIGN RESEARCH SHOWS

Current
Cryptocurrency Wallets:

1. Separate Utility, Education & Hospitality.

2. Focus on technology and product, yet Havas research shows that customers are seeking more personal and collective benefits to enhance their wellbeing.

3. Miss story-structure (lack before, during and after design thinking), resulting in wallet design patterns that make user-knowledge assumptions and create trust gaps.

4. Cannot easily re-engage with users, resulting in lack of expectation management and after care, causing anxiety and nervousness in users.

5. Facilitate transfer of value, without rethinking how we might deliver conversational technology for real world use-cases.

The outcome;
Incomplete experiences make our current wallets unfit for non-technical family and friends.

Want to make your wallet ready for family and friends, grow adoption through digital storytelling, and deliver true social finance.

In this live-class we turn page-based wallet design patterns into interactive conversations, making our wallets ready for family and friends.

Combining utility, educational and hospitality in interactive conversations results in digital empathy. We will learn to look through three innovation lenses: Utility, Experience and Engagement. And will experience that our current wallet patterns are quite harsh, static, and deliver incomplete experiences.

We have quite some work to do if we want to make our cryptocurrency wallets ready for family and friends. Learning to design experiences with a before, during, after mindset will clear the road to mass adoption.

THIS CONVERSATION DESIGN PROGRAM WAS SPONSORED BY CARDANO PROJECT CATALYST

The In-wallet onboarding project and the Conversational Interaction Design program are funded by Cardano Project Catalyst.

Social Design Academy promotes the creation of wallet software that benefits society as a whole. The world is still designing wallet software for the individual. By giving Everybody an Assistant that keeps a check on your personal data, conversation design facilitates a study of self.

It's time that we design wallet software for the individual and collective, and re-connect our real and virtual worlds in meaningful ways.

Five study area’s

Design Principles for your Wallet Project
Design principles are like a compass for your project, guiding your team in the right direction and providing a clear vision for your work.

They help to define the boundaries of your thought process, and serve as a solid foundation for the decisions you make as a team. Without design principles, your decision making can easily be influenced by personal bias and opinions, leaving your project vulnerable to inconsistency and instability.

By defining your design principles upfront, you ensure that your team stays focused and aligned, ultimately leading to more successful outcomes.

Hippo (highest paid person's opinion) is a term used to refer to the tendency for decisions to be made based on the opinion of the person with the most authority or highest salary, rather than on the basis of objective evidence or expertise.
Even Energy Distribution
Our linear mindset often leads us to focus mainly on the design of the "during" stage of our wallet applications, neglecting the important "before" and "after" stages. This imbalance can create anxiety and nervousness in users. Conversational Experience Design seeks to distribute energy evenly throughout all stages, resulting in a pleasant, friendly, and engaging conversation that users will love.
Story Structures & Conversational Wallet Design
Expectation management is often overlooked in wallet design. Instead of simply telling your audience what to do, why not engage them by asking questions and guiding them through the experience? This approach can help to create a more personalized and enjoyable experience for your users. By taking the time to understand where they are and what they need, you can help to manage people's expectations and make their onboarding journey smoother and more enjoyable.
Proof of Interaction & Conversational UI Toolkit
Data standardization is critical to be able to compare and evaluate. Conversational Experience Design takes this into account by using standardized UX KPI's to ensure that research is incorporated into your conversational scripts. This allows you to make more informed decisions and improve the overall user experience. By adopting a Conversational UI Toolkit, you can better understand and address the unique needs of your audiences, and improve the effectiveness and production speed of your conversational wallet experiences.
Fair Data-Governance
Our data governance is flawed because we force users to comply and be complicit in our web2 domain. We need to design with data in motion to make a positive impact on our world. This means keeping data in context and always asking for actors' consent. By designing with data using conversational UI's, we can create a more ethical and sustainable digital environment that respects the rights and preferences of all users.
Niels Kijf (Founder)

Niels Kijf (Founder)

Niels is a digital design innovator and started the Social Design Academy to gather people around true social finance.

He is a pattern recognizer. He has a strong will to design software that benefits society as a whole. He learns, teaches, fails and continues. His drive is overwhelming as it is intoxicating.

He doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, but doesn’t aim for perfection either. His matra:

I Listen without disruption
I think in solitude
I design in collaboration
I interact to involve and evolve people

He has a strong believe that designing digital conversations instead of pages, will bring back ethics to digital design.

Let's co-design

Conversational Wallets

Contact us today to plan a live-class pilot with your wallet team. We are always hands on, and use co-design methods to learn together. Send us a link to your wallet application you want to review and we'll start learning together in no time.

LEARNING GOALS

What you will learn in this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

PREPARATION AND SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT

You can only improve your software if you have set clear boundaries for your product segments.

HUMANIZE SOFTWARE DESIGN

Learn to transpose functional software design into a humane experience, and create experience maps instead of features.

WRITE CONVERSATIONAL SCREENPLAYS

Learn to design digital conversations instead of pages, and create a hospitable experience for your audiences.

SCALE YOUR STORY

Instead of providing static flows, start involving people in your Assistant development, and grow into a co-creation ecosystem. learn to design engaging web3 environments and start designing digital conversations today.

COURSE FORMAT

Unlearn / Relearn

Unlearn what you know, and jump in the exiting world of need based software design.

Conversational Interaction design enables us to design our software front-end in a consistent way and focus on value creation, instead of feature building.

Digital conversations combine social design with digital product design and raises the bar for software design for web3.

Live Classes

The newest collaboration tools will enable us to show that a design system without a new way of working does not level up your design skills.

Co-intelligence is at the core of social design and in our live-classes we use Social UX and converasational interaction design in tandem. Strap in.

Online Courses

For our online courses we use Learndash, the award winning software for learning at your own pace. All courses have question sessions included, so if you are stuck we are always here to help out.

Co-study & Co-design

Learning always works best in teams of 3, find you peer, set your social design challenge and build together.

Weekly Challenges.

From Design Critiques, Design Ping Pong, to UX review, learning is always more fun with practical challenges. Every week we review exceptional work together.

Design in motion

Design must evoke and digital storytelling and wayfinding doesn’t become immersive when things are static on the screen. 

Motion design is a core skill at the Social Design Academy. Join us and let put web3 in motion.

Questions?

Have question join our discord server, there is always someone to help you out.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Rebuild as Assistant

“Designing for Human Activities and Routines really helps in simplifying our software, and deliver true value. Designing our own ecosystem and being able to design digital conversations really helped us to scale our story. Being able to involve people is amazing.”

Next Gen Digital Governance using privacy by design

“Privacy by design is as simple of an insight, as it’s practical to use. Being able to able to keep the data in the users pocket while have an open communication channel with our audiences is truly a revolutionary find in digital product design.”

We didn’t realize how harsh our software was.

“Now we use Conversational Interaction Design we see how harsh and impolite our software actually was. Being able to design for time, location and context is real eyeopener. Situational aware Assistants are an exciting new field.”

Weekly Conversational Challenges

Conversational Interface Examples

COURSE FORMAT

How you will learn

Online Self study Course
We use Learndash to give you an online course experience, all courses are accompanied with live clases.
Live clases
Bringing knowledge into practise is the best way to learn. In live classes we teach you how to transpose a page based interaction design into digital conversations.
Design Challenges
Every month we run design challenges. We focus on wallet blockchain patterns to make cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Your Peers / Co-study & Co-design
We always create teams of three, so learning is fun, and you can help each other when you are stuck. And makes learning a lot of fun.
Time commitment
Most courses can be completed in 4 weeks. But rushing learning never helps, better to do a couple of hours a week, than push all energy into an effort that feels like an obligation.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a hands on course for change makers that want to ideate and design real social software. For people and teams that want to make the world a better place designing software that matters.

This course is for software designers and developers that want to level up their experience design and build a consistent engaging conversational interfaces that are easy to use, feel natural, and guide people to their goals.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This course is for anyone working in the field of Learning and Development or Change and Transformation and needs to add design and facilitation of online processes as an essential skill. Our typical participants include members of Heads of Leadership Development, Chief HR, Transformation Directors, Change Management Leaders, Learning Designers, Facilitators and similar roles who are responsible for the development and delivery of learning experiences or transformative processes.

Sign up for this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

ADA 499,-

Rebuild as Assistant

REBuiLD as assistants

Wallet Design Program

How do we make our cryptocurrency wallets ready for non-technical family and friends?

Build next-gen transitional interface and interactive content, because page-based design and blockchain are no match.

Wallet Design Program

How do we make our cryptocurrency wallets ready for non-technical family and friends?

In this educational program we learn to design assistants, instead of applications. Turn static content into interactive conversations, and move beyond utility focused design.

Provide social-infrastructure for web3 builders
Most wallet teams are really good at unlocking the utilities their blockchain provides. But we need to move from speculation to use-cases and build the social infrastructure for fair technology together. CBDC is coming, and we better make cryptocurrency at least 10 times as good.

When it comes to business, we rigorously test, when it comes to social impact we revert to experiments.
We developed an action method that is simple enough that teams can work together on experience maps. Because our static page-based design is not going to move people into action. We must remediate our wallet design to reach a tipping point for mass-adoption.

Interactive content instead of static pages.
To unlock mass-adoption and make our cryptocurrency wallets for family and friends we must change our design attitude. Discover and build interactive content and digital governance infrastructure together.

Request a live class today
Our academy is dedicated to modernising decision-making and problem-solving by rethinking content design and content delivery for the 21st century.

How: Online Live Classes
Group-size:
Maximum of 12 participants.
Goal: Build experience for in-network problem solving
Pricing:
Education license
Audiences: Blockchain projects, Innovation firms and system change organisations.

EDUCATIONA L PROGRAM

Wallet Design Program

Future proof your wallet design and bring new methods for education and participation into your wallet platform. It’s time to turn users into actors.

Request an intake today.

Niels Kijf Facilitator

Niels Kijf Facilitator

Niels is a digital design innovator and started the Social Design Academy to gather people around public interest technology and real social software design.

He is a pattern recognizer. He has a strong will to design blockchain software that benefits society. He learns, teaches, fails and continues. His drive is overwhelming as it is intoxicating.

He doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, but doesn’t aim for perfection either. His matra:

I Listen without disruption
I think in solitude
I design in collaboration
I tell to involve and evolve people

He has a strong believe that designing interactive content instead of static pages, will bring back ethics and new meaningful revenue models to the digital space.

You can wake him in the night to talk about meaningful business models, novel education systems, distributed decision making, and building personal assistants that deliver on personal and collective development goals.

For whom?

This is a hands-on system change program for change makers that want to tackle the worlds biggest challenges, by looking from the small/individual perspective, and the larger/collective perspective.

For people and teams that want to make the world a better place by designing assistants that really have a positive impact on people's lives, and allow people to subscribe to meaning.

This educational program is for software-driven innovators that want to level up their problem-solving capacity and build consistent and engaging interactive content that solves real-world problems. Let's build assistive technology is easy to use, feels natural, and guide and nudge people to their goals.

LEARNING BY DESIGNING CONVERSATIONS

Digital Governance

Co-creation Events by SDA.

ETHICAL DESIGN FOR DIGITAL NETWORKS

We never learned to bring our values and principles into our digital network. Understanding your hierarchy of needs, helps you make better decisions, for your personal live and where you want to use your energy. The time to change our design attitude and learn to design with principles is now.

MASTER DIGITAL GOVERNANCE TOGETHER

Our software development methods and content formats have become outdated. To revitalize your content strategy, adopt an Assistant-Centered Design approach, which moves away from colonial design thinking and embraces collaboration. This mindset shift helps break down silos and fosters a more inclusive and participatory design process for digital governance solutions.

CO-CREATION AS GOVERNANCE

Revisit the origins of the internet and its evolution over the past 25 years. Despite advancements, the centralization of technology solutions in big tech has hindered progress.

Rethink traditional design methods and content formats, such as page-based design and reliance on video. Consider the relationship between real-life organization and digital design.

Join the Design Challenge movement and embrace co-creation as a form of governance to unlearn old methods and collectively learn and progress.

REQUEST AN INTAKE

It’s time that we design interactive content with principles and co-create distributed content management systems, because our centralized systems are failing.

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Unlearn / Relearn

Unlearn what you know, and jump in the exiting world of need based software design.

Conversational Interaction design enables us to design our software front-end in a consistent way and focus on value creation, instead of feature building.

Digital conversations combine social design with digital product design and raises the bar for meaningful content delivery.

 

Live Classes

The newest collaboration tools will enable us to show that a design system without a new way of working does not level up your design skills.

Co-intelligence is at the core of social design and in our live-classes we use Social UX and converasational interaction design in tandem. Strap in.

Co-study & Co-design

Learning always works best in teams of 3-6, find you peer, set your design challenge and build together.

Weekly Challenges.

From Design Critiques, Design Ping Pong, to UX review, learning is always more fun with practical challenges. Every week we review our work together.

Online Courses

For our online courses we use Learndash, the award winning software for learning at your own pace. All courses have question sessions included, so if you are stuck we are always here to help out.

Design in motion

Design must evoke and digital storytelling and wayfinding doesn’t become immersive when things are static on the screen. 

Motion design is a core skill at the Social Design Academy. Join us and lets put conversations in motion.

Questions?

Have question join our discord server, there is always someone to help you out.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Rebuild as Assistant

“Designing for Human Activities and Routines really helps in simplifying our software, and deliver true value. Designing our own ecosystem and being able to design digital conversations really helped us to scale our story. Being able to involve people is amazing.”

Next Gen Digital Governance using privacy by design

“Privacy by design is as simple of an insight, as it’s practical to use. Being able to able to keep the data in the users pocket while have an open communication channel with our audiences is truly a revolutionary find in digital product design.”

We didn’t realize how harsh our software was.

“Now we use Conversational Interaction Design we see how harsh and impolite our software actually was. Being able to design for time, location and context is real eyeopener. Situational aware Assistants are an exciting new field.”

Weekly Conversational Challenges

Conversational Interface Examples

COURSE FORMAT

How you will learn

Online Self study Course
We use Learndash to give you an online course experience, all courses are accompanied with live clases.
Live clases
Bringing knowledge into practise is the best way to learn. In live classes we teach you how to transpose a page based interaction design into digital conversations.
Design Challenges
Every month we run design challenges. We focus on wallet blockchain patterns to make cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Your Peers / Co-study & Co-design
We always create teams of three, so learning is fun, and you can help each other when you are stuck. And makes learning a lot of fun.
Time commitment
Most courses can be completed in 4 weeks. But rushing learning never helps, better to do a couple of hours a week, than push all energy into an effort that feels like an obligation.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a hands on course for change makers that want to ideate and design real social software. For people and teams that want to make the world a better place designing software that matters.

This course is for software designers and developers that want to level up their experience design and build a consistent engaging conversational interfaces that are easy to use, feel natural, and guide people to their goals.

For who is this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This course is for anyone working in the field of Learning and Development or Change and Transformation and needs to add design and facilitation of online processes as an essential skill. Our typical participants include members of Heads of Leadership Development, Chief HR, Transformation Directors, Change Management Leaders, Learning Designers, Facilitators and similar roles who are responsible for the development and delivery of learning experiences or transformative processes.

Sign up for this course

Rebuild as Assistant

This is a self-study course, but all courses have call in events, so you can always ask us question and connect with others.

ADA 499,-