A women-owned Seattle creative studio for the bold and the burnt outWHERE BAD IDEAS
TURN GENIUS
We provide custom design services, team-building workshops, and creative experiences that prove the best breakthroughs can start with the most ridiculous thoughts.
Ever had an idea so bad it’s brilliant?
The kind you almost didn’t say out loud.
Because it sounded ridiculous.
Half-baked.
A little embarrassing.
Good.
Those are our favorite kinds. Welcome to Bad Ideas.
OUR SERVICESWe help people get unstuck
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Workshops
The Creative Reset
A 90-minute strategic intervention to trash perfectionism and restore team momentum. Originally developed at Google to help high-pressure product teams trade "safe" thinking for breakthrough collaboration.
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Experiences
The Curated Gathering
We partner with restaurants, bars, and private hosts to run Bad Ideas Nights — playful group experiences where people collaborate, compete, and come up with the worst ideas imaginable. Unexpected, chaotic, and actually memorable.
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Individuals, small groups, & community partnerships -
Design Services
The Thoughtful Strategy
F*ck the noise that says your dream idea is too "out there". We design brands, websites, and creative strategies that reflect your story and scale with your ambition.
BEST FOR
Badass Founders & Brands
TRUSTED BY
& more
WHY BAD IDEAS?
Because perfectionism kills imagination
At Bad Ideas Studio, we cultivate the messy and the unexpected. We’ve found that when you give people permission to be "crappy," the pressure vanishes—and that’s exactly where the revolutionary ideas are hiding.
Benefits
Trash creative block
Reduce Stress
Connect & build trust
GET UNSTUCK
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PLAY
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DON'T WORRY, BE CRAPPY
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LET LOOSE
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MAKE SH*T UP
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NOTHING TO PROVE
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GET UNSTUCK ✴︎ PLAY ✴︎ DON'T WORRY, BE CRAPPY ✴︎ LET LOOSE ✴︎ MAKE SH*T UP ✴︎ NOTHING TO PROVE ✴︎
HOW BAD IDEAS STARTEDBorn from creative block
Hello!We’re Alex and Jill — two designers who met at Google and found ourselves stuck in the same creative trap: too much pressure to be smart, polished, and perfect.
So we flipped the whole thing upside down.
Instead of asking for the best ideas in the room, we asked for the worst.
The results were ridiculous.
And surprisingly brilliant.
Now we help teams and founders do the same.
