Upcoming event · San Diego
🖼️ Break the Canvas: Get Your Creative Edge Back with the Picasso Method
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific)
Where: Kiln - Rancho Bernardo · 17190 Bernardo Center Dr, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92128, San Diego
Hosted by: Hosted by Kiln Rancho Bernardo
Cost: Free
Another brief. Another brainstorm. Another idea that looks suspiciously like the last one. You know you’re capable of more. But between templates, stakeholder expectations, and AI serving up the average of everything, it’s easy to get very good at making the familiar look polished.
Let’s shake that up.
Join UX Speakeasy and Prashant Anilkumar—founder, TEDx speaker, and author of Break the Canvas—for a talk and hands-on exercise designed to help you break out of predictable thinking.
Taking inspiration from Pablo Picasso, Prashant will introduce five practical moves for seeing familiar problems in radically different ways:
đź’Ą Shatter the Mold: Challenge the assumptions hiding inside the brief.
👀 Multiply the View: Look beyond your usual perspective to uncover possibilities you’ve been missing.
🧩 Steal the Structure: Borrow useful patterns from unexpected fields.
🤖 Distort with AI: Use AI to stretch your imagination without outsourcing your originality.
🌀 Leave the Loop Open: Give ideas room to evolve before rushing to an answer.
Then it’s your turn. Put the ideas to work in a short exercise—and see what happens when you give yourself permission to question the frame.
Come for fresh thinking, meet other curious people, and leave with moves you can try on your next project.
Who’s this for?
Designers, product people, leaders, and anyone who’s ever sat through a brainstorm thinking, “Surely we can do better than this.”
No art skills required. Bring your curiosity—and a challenge you’re tired of approaching the same way.
🎟️ RSVP and give your creative edge a night out.
🍕 Food and drink provided with suggested donation.
About the speaker
Prashant Anilkumar is a founder, TEDx speaker, writer, and consultant who helps professionals unlock unconventional thinking through business, art, and unexpected uses of AI. He holds engineering and MBA degrees and has spent over a decade leading product management and strategy at Fortune 100 technology companies. Break the Canvas is his first book, and he publishes a weekly newsletter exploring creativity.
Hosted by Kiln.
Kiln Rancho Bernardo is a 41,000-square-foot coworking space on Bernardo Center Drive in North County San Diego, just off the I-15 near the Apple campus.