Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Experience Principles
Experience Principles are guidelines defining the user experience's intended character. They act as a north star, guiding design decisions throughout ...
Problem Definition Canvas
Teams often solve the wrong problems. The Problem Definition Canvas brings structure. It systematically explores context, stakeholders, constraints, a...
AF - Motivations
Go beyond stated user needs to uncover the real "why." Surface-level requests often hide deeper motivations. For example, "I want it faster" could mea...
Retrospective
This exercise helps teams reflect on recent work. It's a chance to celebrate wins and find ways to improve. Regular retrospectives drive continuous im...
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...
Strategic Design Future Mapping
Strategic Design Future Mapping makes possible futures visible, informing today's decisions. Map emerging trends and signals of change onto a canvas. ...
6-3-5 Brainwriting
This is a silent brainstorming exercise. Participants build on each other's ideas in structured rounds. Six people generate three ideas in five minute...
Kano Model
The Kano Model helps teams categorize features by customer satisfaction and functionality. It clarifies which features delight users versus those that...
Stakeholders Map
Create a visual map of everyone with a stake in your project. See relationships, power dynamics, and communication needs across your ecosystem. This h...
Component Audit And Categorization
A component audit catalogs every UI element across your product. It reveals inconsistencies and redundancies that you might not know exist. This exerc...
How-Now-Wow
The How-Now-Wow matrix helps teams select ideas. It categorizes them by originality and how easy they are to implement. This 2x2 matrix highlights inn...
Interview Guide
This framework helps you conduct user interviews. It balances structured data collection with natural conversation. Expect unexpected insights.
Affinity Diagram
Make sense of chaos by finding patterns. Start with research findings, observations, or ideas. Let structure emerge instead of forcing it. Bottom-up o...
Structured Design Critique
Get useful feedback, not just opinions. Structured critique focuses discussion on design goals and user needs. It avoids personal preferences. Unstruc...
What? So What? Now What?
This exercise uses a structured reflection model. It guides your team from describing an experience to interpreting its significance, then planning fu...
Rapid Sketching
Speed crushes perfectionism. Rapid sketching forces ideas out before overthinking kicks in. Many think they can't sketch, which is why this works. Giv...
UX Maturity Assessment Workshop
Before planning improvements, gauge your organization's UX maturity. This assessment reveals where you stand in user-centered design. Then, it pinpoin...
Ecosystem Mapping
Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can m...
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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!