Workroom Playtime 041: Ah, um...

This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 4 December at 4pm London time. That's 4pm. 4.

I pre-announced the session as something on exploratory interfaces... but when I went to work, I thought that I was delivering a new puzzle.

As of now, we have both (and this is an updated page).

Puzzle 38

Puzzle 38 – swift to explore. Probably.

Workroom ProductionsJames Lyndsay

Exploratory Interfaces 4: Tests

Explore the passing tests of a built product to explore the product.

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We'll gather on Zoom to ... play.

These exercises are for everyone, for free. Subscribers get to play together every week. If you can see a joining info section below, then that gives you access to the Zoom etc. for the workshop. If you'd like to bring a friend, you can do that. I'll say yes until I've got too many.

Here's a rough plan of what I plan to cover in the rest of the year:

• 041 4 December: Building exploratory interfaces
• 042 11 December: a New Blackbox puzzle
• 043 18 December: Going meta – let's build short exercises!

I don't think we'll do 25th December, or 1 January (you might have something planned, yourself). So that's a full year of Workroom PlayTime – thank you for coming on this journey.

In 2026, we'll do more puzzles, more stuff for speakers, more thinking... and maybe fewer tools. I'll re-run some exercises, and experiment more with timings and lengths.

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