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# Workroom PlayTime 002: Exploratory Interfaces I
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-playtime-002-2/
- Published: 2025-01-16T10:53:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-16T10:53:27.000Z
- Author: James Lyndsay

**This week's Workroom PlayTime is on Friday at 3pm London time.** We'll dig into ideas around [Exploratory Interfaces](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploratory-interfaces/), and will play with the exercise [Changing Input Mechanisms](https://www.workroom-productions.com/changing-input-mechanisms/).

Those links will take you to new pages on the site. The pages are for everyone – having subscribers encourages me to make them, and to make them available to our whole community. Thank you for *your* encouragement.

Paying subscribers get more interaction. If you go to the [PlayTime 002](https://www.workroom-productions.com/playtime-002-exploratory-interfaces-i/) page, and you're a paying subscriber, you'll find you have access to Zoom and Miro so we can meet and play together on Friday. **If you want to come play, hit** [**upgrade**](https://www.workroom-productions.com/#/portal/) **– it's currently a fiver a month.** 

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In a change of tack for **next week's PlayTime**, I'll run a SpeakerPrep exercise from the set that Bart Knaack and I have run at events over the last few years. See [Workroom PlayTime](https://www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-playtime/) for more.

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Here's **news**: I'm going to teach a double-length interactive workshop at [EuroSTAR in Edinburgh in June](https://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/conference/2025/programme/)! The workshop, [*Test-Driven Generation, a Hands-on Experience*](https://www.workroom-productions.com/test-driven-generation-a-hands-on-experience-at-eurostar-2025-2/), is an extension of the [one that Bart and I delivered](https://www.workroom-productions.com/ai-vs-tdd-atd2024/) at [Agile Testing Days](https://agiletestingdays.com/2024/program/?day=conf-day-1).

 *I'm thrilled to be on the program.* Ping me if you're going, and want to meet. 

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I've had a **flurry of new writing and exercises for the site**. You'll find new content at [Exploration Without Interaction](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploration-without-interaction-2/), the start of a long topic at [Exploratory Interfaces](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploratory-interfaces/), and three new exercises to play with: [How do You Explore a System](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exercise-how-do-you-explore-what-a-system-does-2/), [You vs the Machine](https://www.workroom-productions.com/you-vs-the-machine/), and [Changing Input Mechanisms](https://www.workroom-productions.com/changing-input-mechanisms/). Two of those exercises link to toys which you won't have seen before unless you've been to an in-person workshop. You may also be interested in a big new addition to [Exploring Without Requirements](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploring-without-requirements/).

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Finally, **shout out** to [Elizabeth Zagroba](https://elizabethzagroba.com), who pointed me to an embarrassing 404 on subscribe and to the dodgy email address used on earlier mailouts, and to [Lisa Crispin](https://lisacrispin.com), who mentioned that a calendar link for PlayTime would actually help. Public **gratitude** to Lisa again for (I believe) mentioning PlayTest in the Women In Test group, and to [MoT's](https://www.ministryoftesting.com) [Simon Tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon%5Ftomes/summary) for having me on the [Week in Testing](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/this-week-in-testings) show last Friday.

Have an excellent rest of the week!

Cheers – 

James