Team Building - Mario Party Live

Customer

SpaceCAMP

Date

October 2023

Role

Event Planner

Designer

Facilitator

For the software to succeed, we must become a high performing team.

Even after 2 years of working together, our team was experiencing some growing pains. Leadership observed a culture of individualized agendas, poor communication, and a lack of domain understanding. Research provided proof of these inadequecies, and the product was suffering.

The design team was asked to apply UX principles to put us back on the right track. Challenge accepted!

User Research

User Interviews
Health Check
Root Cause Analysis
Behavioral Observations
Teambuilding & Leadership Research
Psychological Safety Research

Product Design

Gamification of Principles
Lesson Planning
Prototyping
Prop design
Playtesting
Facilitator Coordination

Create a gamified team-building experience inspired by Mario Party, leveraging its playful competitiveness, teamwork challenges, and memorable characters to enhance employee engagement and collaboration.

Project Overview

Problems

Misaligned product vision
Opinionated developer-led product strategy
Unsustainable communication
Knowledge Silos

Solutions

Research strategies for high-performing teams
Use gamification techniques to incentivize learning about sensitive topics
Team-building lessons with practical use cases

Outcomes

Improved communication
Team alignment
Boosted morale
Renewed energy
Team awareness of root issues