Why I keep an idea workshop

Not every idea deserves a project

Having ideas is easy. Giving them project status immediately is more dangerous. A project requires time, attention, decisions, sometimes money, and above all a form of mental commitment. If everything becomes a project, nothing really moves forward.

An idea workshop exists to avoid that confusion. It gives an intuition a place without giving it too much importance too early.

Structure in order to abandon better

Documenting an idea does not mean it will be built. On the contrary, it often makes it possible to abandon it cleanly. When you write the promise, audience, problem, risk and first possible version, many ideas lose their obviousness. That is a good thing.

An idea that does not survive one framing page probably does not need several weeks of development.

A space between draft and product

The workshop is that intermediate space. It is not a todo list, a product backlog or a portfolio. It is a sorting area: concepts, prototypes, manifestos, notes, early systems and hypotheses to verify.

Some ideas will stay there. Others will become more serious work. Others will be merged, simplified or forgotten. That is not a failure; it is the normal behavior of an exploration space.

Why show it on a professional site

Showing an idea workshop can seem less polished than a classic portfolio. But it is also more honest. It shows a way of thinking: framing, sorting, naming, renouncing, resuming, connecting. For a product-minded front-end profile, that way of thinking matters as much as the final screenshot of a finished screen.