Inside the Week-Long Workshop That Replaced Discovery

A Melbourne practice compresses months of research into five days in the same room.

By Nina Corcoran

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Instead of a discovery phase measured in months, Common Ground runs one week with the client in the studio every day.

Monday is listening, Wednesday is sketching, Friday is a decision. Nothing is presented that was not made that week.

In practice

Clients pay a fixed fee for the week and can walk away at the end of it.

Five days is long enough to be honest and short enough to stay focused.

Mia Tran, founder
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