As part of our master’s program, my fellow student Emilie Bech Jespersen and I collaborated with the design agency Flying October. The project, called Play-based Intrapreneurship, focused on playful disruption in established companies—exploring how play could challenge, improve, or at the very least, transform a company’s work, culture, and/or products.

Flying October wanted us to focus on their newly acquired tool, GAIS, a well-being measurement tool developed by Krifa. We repeatedly heard it described as a “toolbox,” but to our disappointment, it consisted solely of a questionnaire about workplace well-being, with no physical tools to engage with.

This led to the creation of Dialogi, a communication tool designed as an extension of the data-driven survey. Our goal was to embody emotions, moods, challenges, victories, and frustrations through physical and visual metaphors.

Dialogi turned out to open a much deeper conversation about workplace well-being than the survey alone could provide. It helped us identify the underlying structures that shaped the workplaces we tested it on—what worked, what needed improvement, and what actionable steps could be taken to achieve meaningful change.