Exercises

Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.

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Paper Prototyping

45 mins

Use paper and scissors for quick concept testing. Create moveable interface elements. Simulate interactions. Test usability before coding.

Heuristic Evaluation Protocol

2 hours

Heuristic evaluation spots usability problems fast using expert reviews. Evaluators check an interface against usability principles. This happens befo...

System Scenario

3 hours

This exercise expands scenario development to consider system-wide changes. Explore how services function within larger social, economic, and environm...

Design Principles

3 hours

This strategy exercise helps teams rapidly develop design principles through collaboration and visual exploration. Participants sketch and prototype d...

I Like, I Wish, What If

18 mins

This exercise uses three feedback categories to provide balanced and actionable critique. "I Like," "I Wish," and "What If" prompts generate construct...

Concept Selection

1.3 hours

Choose the strongest concepts to move forward using varied evaluation methods. Balance intuition with structured analysis to select ideas with the hig...

Recruiting Screener

30 mins 1

Use a screener to find the right research participants. It's a questionnaire or interview that helps you select people based on your study's needs.

Fishbone Diagram

45 mins

The Fishbone diagram helps teams find the root causes of problems. It organizes potential causes into categories that branch from a central problem.

Service Image

1 hour

A service image visually represents the entire service experience. It communicates the core essence and character to both stakeholders and users. This...

Discovery & Action Dialogue

2 hours

This exercise helps teams tackle tough problems by involving those closest to them. Four targeted questions uncover hidden solutions and foster owners...

Love Audit

30 mins

The Love Audit helps teams find product touchpoints that build emotional connection or cause user friction. Many products fail because they don't conn...

Synthesis Wall

2 hours

The Synthesis Wall helps organize research findings visually to spot patterns and insights from data. Use it to transform observations into actionable...

Moment of Truth

45 mins

Moments of Truth are pivotal customer interactions that forge lasting impressions and significantly sway decisions. They profoundly shape customer per...

Straw Poll

10 mins

Team members vote for their favorite solution using a large dot sticker. This reveals team preferences before the Decider makes the final choice.

Problem Prioritization

20 mins 2

Teams often try to solve too many problems at once. This exercise forces you to prioritize. Structured voting helps you reach decisions and commit as ...

Emotional Response Mapping

1.5 hours

Customers feel emotions at every stage of their journey. Emotional Response Mapping identifies those specific reactions. You'll uncover opportunities ...

Impact Journey

3 hours

This tool helps you analyze how service experiences affect well-being, society, and the environment. Use it to generate ideas for more sustainable and...

Strategic Backcasting

3 hours

Your team knows where you want to be in 2030, but the path from here to there feels impossibly complex. Strategic Backcasting flips traditional planni...