Closing stage challenges

Some challenges you might face during the closing stage of the workshop include:

• Inconclusive or insufficient insights: It is quite possible that at the end of a long workshop, you’re still left with unhelpful or insufficient data to make a design decision. Use this opportunity to reexamine your goals and see if you can improve your process. If not, commission further workshops or user research activities to gain better results.
• Disagreements in prioritization: Taking a vote when prioritizing solutions and tasks at the closing stage is the best way to avoid such differences in opinion. In the case that there is a tie, the workshop facilitator can exercise their best judgment to make a final decision.
• Making people feel included: At the end of the workshop, everyone wants to feel like they’ve made good use of their time and effort. Facilitators must acknowledge this by summarizing the participants' insights, thanking each participant, and explaining how workshop results will be applied.