Keyboard Building Workshops: Team Building People Take Home
Team building where everyone leaves with a keyboard they built themselves.
Most team building activities are forgotten by the next Monday. A keyboard building workshop is different: people spend the session building something together, and everyone leaves with a keyboard they will use every working day.
What happens in a workshop
Each person assembles their own mechanical keyboard. They choose switches, fit the keycaps and learn how the parts work together. It is hands-on enough to get people talking, simple enough that nobody needs experience, and the result works the moment they plug it in.
The keycaps can carry your company colours, your logo or a design made for the event, so the finished keyboards are branded without looking like promotional merchandise.
Why it works for teams
- A shared experience: people help each other, compare choices and talk across teams
- A personal takeaway: each keyboard reflects the choices of the person who built it
- Daily use: unlike most swag, the keyboard stays on the desk
- Something to talk about: a workshop gets shared internally and on social media far more than a box of merchandise
When to use it
- Team offsites and kick-offs
- Onboarding a new cohort of hires
- Celebrating a launch or a milestone
- Engineering, design and developer teams who already care about their tools
Meta used custom keyboards and keycaps to bring a team together, see the case studies for more examples.
How to plan one
Tell us your team size, date and location, and how you want the keyboards branded. We help you choose the keyboard, switches and keycap design, and send a free mockup before anything is produced. Keyboards can also be personalised per person, which pairs well with letting each employee choose their own setup.
Get in touch to plan a workshop for your team.
Mission statement isn't a static asset you design once and forget. It is a live promise. In a fast-paced market where users have endless alternatives at their fingertips, authenticity isn't a design aesthetic—it’s the ultimate competitive advantage.
Mission statement isn't a static asset you design once and forget. It is a live promise. In a fast-paced market where users have endless alternatives at their fingertips, authenticity isn't a design aesthetic—it’s the ultimate competitive advantage.
Mission statement isn't a static asset you design once and forget. It is a live promise. In a fast-paced market where users have endless alternatives at their fingertips, authenticity isn't a design aesthetic—it’s the ultimate competitive advantage.
