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Concept · 07.11.2026

An agenda that reorders itself

Five sketches, thirty seconds each, and the one that survived.

Sample post: the example that ships with the Buxton design system. futureshock.ai

Most meetings drift because the agenda is a document, and documents don’t notice when the conversation has moved on. What if the agenda were the thing that noticed?

This is a concept, not a product. It is meant to be argued with. The sketches below took about thirty seconds each, which is the point: they are cheap enough to throw away.

A sketch asks; a prototype answers.

Start with the window and what is in it. The agenda on the left, the notes in the middle, the people on the right. Leave out every label and button that doesn’t carry the idea.

Now draw it eight ways, fast. Agenda left, right, on top. People in a row, or in a ring like a table. None of these is right yet; the set shows the space.

The ring keeps winning, because it looks like the room. That is the one to take forward.

Here is the same window, taken as far as a wireframe would go. Drag it back and notice how much more the rough one invites you to argue.

Where it sits

Next: three of these in front of a real team, on paper, in a real meeting.