Exercises

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

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Signal Cards

2 hours 1

Use provocative cards depicting future situations to spark new service ideas. The cards help you think about emerging trends and alternative futures. ...

Emerging Tech Scenario Design

3 hours

Your innovation team needs to explore how AI, quantum computing, biotech, and Web3 could reshape your industry. Emerging Tech Scenario Design creates ...

Storyboarding

45 mins 1

Create comic strip-style stories to visualize user scenarios. Each storyboard shows user context, problem, solution interaction, and outcome in 6-8 pa...

Theme Discovery

2 hours 1

Research yields raw data: interviews, surveys, observations. Theme Discovery transforms this into insights by pinpointing patterns. In 2 hours, affini...

S.c.a.m.p.e.r.

1 hour 1

SCAMPER is a structured creative thinking technique. It uses seven prompts to modify existing ideas and generate new solutions. Each letter offers a d...

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...

Assumption Mapping

45 mins 3

Every project has assumptions. This exercise makes them visible. Write down what you think you know. Be honest about what's validated versus what you ...

Min Specs

50 mins

Focus on essential rules to spark innovation. Remove unnecessary specifications so teams can adapt and find novel solutions within clear boundaries.

Prune the Future

1.5 hours

Map future scenarios by creating a timeline of events. Prune unlikely or undesirable futures to focus on a preferred path. This helps teams align on s...

Hypothesis Generation

1 hour

A systematic approach to creating testable assumptions about user behavior, needs, and service solutions that can be validated through research and ex...

Trend Impact Assessment

2.5 hours

Trend Impact Assessment evaluates how current and future trends affect an organization or system. It combines trend analysis with impact evaluation. T...

Design System Governance Framework Development

2 hours 1

A design system needs governance to thrive. Without it, components become outdated. This exercise helps you establish rules, roles, and processes. We'...

Provocations

2 hours

Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...

Role Playing

1.5 hours

Service simulations let team members role-play user scenarios. Acting out service interactions helps you understand different viewpoints and spot serv...

Start, Stop, Continue

35 mins

This simple retrospective helps turn insights into action. Participants decide what to start, stop, and continue doing to maximize workshop impact.

Ask the Experts

2 hours

Interview stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather insights. Experts share knowledge while the team captures notes and identifies opportuniti...

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...

Contextual Inquiry

2 hours

Contextual Inquiry brings research into the user's world. Instead of asking, watch them work. Observe them with their tools, facing real problems. You...