Cape Town: a two-day design jam
Twelve teams, two days, one brief from a local nonprofit — and a real shipped result.
Date
3 March 2025
Format
Event recap
Read
4 min
01
Why it happened
The region's creator economy was growing faster than the tooling around it. We wanted a room where operators, brands and platform teams could compare notes in person instead of over email threads.
02
What happened
A full-day programme of keynotes, hands-on workshops and a closing social. Sessions ran back to back with a live production crew capturing everything for post-event content.
03
The next steps
Turning the recordings into an evergreen content series, opening the waitlist for the next edition, and shipping the partner playbook that came out of the workshop notes.
Design jams usually end in a slide deck. This one ended in a live site with a donate button that worked.
Date
0 Mar 2025
Teams
0
Hours
0
Shipped
0 site
Designers, developers and writers mixed
Including sleep, mostly
In the quarter after launch
Day 1, 09:00
Brief
Delivered by the nonprofit, not by me.
Day 1, 18:00
Crit
Every team, ten minutes, public.
Day 2, 16:00
Pick and build
One direction, everyone builds it.
A jam with no shipped artefact is a workshop with better snacks.
On the map
Cape Town, South Africa
Woodstock Exchange
