User Experience Design Leader
Canada
Tanya Snook is a user experience designer who builds citizen and employee experiences in the Government of Canada. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "UX Theatre" to describe the superficial posturing that some organizations do in the place of proper user experience design.
UX Camp Winter 2026
Are You Performing Workshop Theatre? (3 Red Flags)
72% of meetings are unproductive, costing $37B annually (Zippia). Sticky notes everywhere, outcomes nowhere. Are your workshops any better — or just Workshop Theatre (superficial collaboration rituals that look productive but deliver zero value)?
I popularized UX Theatre seven years ago. Now I’ve diagnosed its workshop mutation: 3 Vital Signs reveal if your sessions are healthy or dying.
Join me to explore (and fix!):
- Red Flag #1: No preparation = “What are we even doing here?”
- Red Flag #2: Wrong activities = busywork, not outcomes
- Red Flag #3: Poor facilitation = “Loudest voice wins”
This session is perfect for: UX practitioners, service designers, workshop facilitators, and teams battling collaboration chaos. And you’ll have a chance to grab my 10-question diagnostic scorecard to help you diagnose your workshops.
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$13.50
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