skills/product-idea-pack/references/presentation-modes/workshop-canvas-v1.md

# Presentation mode: Workshop Canvas

**Identifier:** `workshop`  
**Use with:** proposition sketch, mechanism board and occasionally product storyboard

Use this mode when the artefact is primarily something a group will alter, rearrange and negotiate around. Its visual incompleteness should make participation feel legitimate.

## What changes

- Break the content into independent editable clusters with generous working space.
- Make actors, ownership, disagreements, assumptions and missing links easy to mark.
- Show genuine alternatives rather than polishing one route into apparent inevitability.
- Use clean linework, typed labels and restrained emphasis; avoid fake sticky-note clutter.
- Keep the title, provoking question and truth note from the Editorial Instrument house style, but let the working area dominate.

## Reference needs

Ask about the workshop setting or participants only when that changes what must be movable or challengeable. An aesthetic reference is normally unnecessary.

## Reject when

- the composition is so presentation-perfect that edits feel like damage;
- important labels are flattened or locked;
- the board imitates a workshop without enabling meaningful rearrangement; or
- the user needs to experience a real product interaction rather than discuss its structure.