Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Stakeholder Impact Mapping
Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent soluti...
Pattern Library Mapping
Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...
Min Specs
Focus on essential rules to spark innovation. Remove unnecessary specifications so teams can adapt and find novel solutions within clear boundaries.
Hypothesis Generation
A systematic approach to creating testable assumptions about user behavior, needs, and service solutions that can be validated through research and ex...
Problem Prioritization Matrix
Teams face many problems with limited resources. The Problem Prioritization Matrix helps evaluate problems using clear criteria. This helps focus on t...
Benchmark Creation Protocol
Benchmarking shows your current state, letting you track progress. This exercise sets initial metrics for usability, satisfaction, or other UX aspects...
Experience Principles
Experience Principles are guidelines defining the user experience's intended character. They act as a north star, guiding design decisions throughout ...
Customer Touchpoint Map
A customer touchpoint map visualizes all interactions between a customer and your organization. It helps you understand how customers connect with you...
Lean UX
Lean UX favors rapid experimentation over documentation. Teams build hypotheses about user behavior, test them fast, and iterate based on feedback. It...
Design Token Exploration
Design tokens are the core of your design system. They are colors, spacing, typography, and other values that ensure consistency. This exercise helps ...
Emerging Tech Scenario Design
Your innovation team needs to explore how AI, quantum computing, biotech, and Web3 could reshape your industry. Emerging Tech Scenario Design creates ...
Design Philosophy Articulation
Make your design beliefs explicit. Unarticulated philosophy leads to inconsistent decisions. Different people default to different beliefs, creating f...
Touchpoint Matrix
Map every service interaction across channels and journey stages to get a bird's eye view of your service ecosystem. Use a matrix to spot gaps, overla...
Role Playing
Service simulations let team members role-play user scenarios. Acting out service interactions helps you understand different viewpoints and spot serv...
Kano Model
The Kano Model helps teams categorize features by customer satisfaction and functionality. It clarifies which features delight users versus those that...
Start at the End
The "Start at the End" exercise flips traditional planning. Instead of starting with actions, define what success looks like and work backward. Adapte...
Product Box
Make your value proposition tangible with a product box. This exercise clarifies what matters to customers. It also aligns teams around a customer-cen...
Four-Step Sketch
This exercise guides participants to create solution sketches through focused stages: notes, ideas, Crazy 8s, and a final sketch. It helps move beyond...
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This workshop was incredibly effective for our remote team! We adapted it slightly for a virtual setting and it worked wonderfully. The key was breaking into smaller breakout rooms.
Great resource! One tip: prepare all materials the day before to avoid any last-minute rushes.
Used this for our quarterly planning session. The structured approach really helped us stay on track!