What we practice
Better together: Social practices to co-create social products
Relational uses an evolving set of social practices to embrace the spirit of group play and to focus our collective energy. Emerged and honed through years of experimental projects, these communal practices hold space for our builders to explore, create, and ship.
This “social-first” approach allows a diversity of builders to get on the same page so we cover more ground, more quickly. From this shared understanding, our resultant products are grounded in the spirit of connectivity.
Our Practices
Code Trips
deepen your development capacity by going for a group-programming journey
Design Jams
create a multi-perspectival view of your project with a social approach to design
Explorers Club
cultivate common sense as you traverse new terrain and sharpen your understanding of any topic
Social Choreography
get production ready by making a performance of your software project
Experience Mapping
find a seamless user-experience through group-cartography across every layer of your product
Start Tiny
drop the barrier to getting started by beginning with a laughably simple task
Design Fiction
imagine a world with your new product to find previously elusive aspirations and delightful details
Blackboxing
unearth your team's collective intelligence without falling into group-think
Play it forward: The Relational Social Protocol
Relational is continuously fine-tuning our group-build practices, not only for our internal use but for the broader public as well. We are working towards packaging these social rituals into an open-source library. It is our intention that social builders from all corners of the digital world can apply our practices to craft their own communal goods and services.