Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Signal Cards
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
Your innovation team needs to explore how AI, quantum computing, biotech, and Web3 could reshape your industry. Emerging Tech Scenario Design creates ...
Storyboarding
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
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.
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
Moments of Truth are pivotal customer interactions that forge lasting impressions and significantly sway decisions. They profoundly shape customer per...
Assumption Mapping
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
Focus on essential rules to spark innovation. Remove unnecessary specifications so teams can adapt and find novel solutions within clear boundaries.
Prune the Future
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
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
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
A design system needs governance to thrive. Without it, components become outdated. This exercise helps you establish rules, roles, and processes. We'...
Provocations
Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...
Role Playing
Service simulations let team members role-play user scenarios. Acting out service interactions helps you understand different viewpoints and spot serv...
Start, Stop, Continue
This simple retrospective helps turn insights into action. Participants decide what to start, stop, and continue doing to maximize workshop impact.
Ask the Experts
Interview stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather insights. Experts share knowledge while the team captures notes and identifies opportuniti...
Discovery & Action Dialogue
This exercise helps teams tackle tough problems by involving those closest to them. Four targeted questions uncover hidden solutions and foster owners...
Contextual Inquiry
Contextual Inquiry brings research into the user's world. Instead of asking, watch them work. Observe them with their tools, facing real problems. You...
Comments & Discussion
Add a Comment
Recent Comments (3)
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!