About MethodKit

Hi, my name is Ola Möller, the founder of MethodKit. I’m a designer, educator & generalist from Sweden.

Back in 2012, I needed a tool that didn’t exist. Not an app. Not a canvas. Something physical. Something you could point at. Move around. Think with.

I had two realisations that shaped MethodKit.

First, I’d been working on large collaborative book projects, bringing together hundreds of people. Managing that many contributors was tough. We needed a shared language, a way to align, and a mental map we could all refer to.

Second, after a few years of running workshops, sometimes with just 5 people, sometimes with over 1,000, I noticed something. Most facilitators didn’t really know how to design, and most designers didn’t know how to facilitate. I wanted to be the bridge between those worlds.

Those two insights sparked MethodKit. I started by talking to friends and colleagues, sketching ideas on paper. I built a rough prototype, tested it, tweaked it. That led to the first two kits: MethodKit for Projects and MethodKit for Personal Development. Two kits I needed myself at the time.

The kits worked, not just for me. They created clarity. They helped teams zoom out and talk about what mattered. They made space for everyone in the room, not just the loudest voice. (More thoughts on the design format can be found here).

Since then I dived into 60+ topics together with help of experts, professors & people passionate about education. Most of them have been based on the idea of MethodKit for […]. Where the different aspects and parts of a topic get summarised into a kit. 20000+ of hours have been spent to perfect the process we use to create and verify kits on different topics.

Some years later I felt a lack of having the building blocks for idea development and brainstorming at hand when teaching innovation and idea development. That led to that MethodKit with […] came to life.

MethodKit is run by a small core team. But we’re powered by a much bigger network: 200+ collaborators. Educators, facilitators, translators, professors, and subject-matter experts helped us develop kits over the years. But we also worked with institutions like DW Akademie, UN-Habitat and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, that we’re honoured to have as clients at MethodKit Studios.

/Ola

Ps. Feel free to reach out if you want to work with us or connect on LinkedIn.

Thoughts behind MethodKit

What I believe, is the idea that tools should help you zoom out, see connections, and think clearly, especially when things feel messy. This is what MethodKit is built on. They should make space for everyone in the room, not just the loudest voices. Good tools shift the focus to the topic, not the person leading the meeting. I believe in conversations over lectures, in shared language over scattered thoughts.

From the start, we weren’t just taking pages out of a book, we were turning important pieces into physical tools you could aaaactually work with. Not books, exercises or recipes…

TOOLS. Cards without much text had a unique power, they didn’t tell you what to think. Instead they gave you something to think with. MethodKit is designed to surface what matters, to turn vague ideas into something tangible, and to make space for complexity without losing your way.

You can read more about the thoughts behind MethodKit here.