Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
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 ...
RACI Matrix Development
Use a RACI matrix to clarify roles and responsibilities. It identifies who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for key activities or ...
AF - Playground
Want to create a safe space for weird ideas? Innovation workshops often fail because people are afraid to take creative risks. A playground removes th...
Principles Refinement
Good principles get better with iteration. This 60-minute exercise uses feedback from testing to refine wording and improve clarity. The goal is princ...
4-Up
Kill perfectionism through sheer speed. Four minutes to sketch four different solutions forces your brain to move past the obvious first idea. This wo...
Jobs To Be Done
Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) helps you understand why people "hire" products or services. It's about the progress people seek, not just their demographics. ...
Job Statement Framing
Job Statement Framing ensures precise language in Jobs To Be Done. This 75-minute exercise crafts clear job statements. These capture customer intent,...
Rough Prototyping
Create service concepts rapidly with basic materials. Test ideas cheaply before investing in detailed development. It's about fast learning, not perfe...
Mindmap
Mind mapping visually organizes thoughts around a central topic. It builds a mental model by connecting related concepts and ideas in a radial structu...
Designer Top Trumps
This exercise fosters team bonding through playful self-expression using custom trading cards. Participants design personal cards highlighting their d...
What, So What, Now What?
Use this structured debrief to help teams make sense of shared experiences. It guides teams from observations to implications, leading to clear action...
Nine Whys
Uncover your work's core purpose by repeatedly asking, "Why is this important?" This exercise reveals fundamental motivations. It connects daily tasks...
Ecosystem Loops
Map circular value flows and feedback loops in service ecosystems. Pinpoint key areas for sustainable and regenerative service design. This exercise h...
LS - 15% Solutions
Feeling stuck? Focus on your 15%. What can you influence *now*, without permission or extra resources? This exercise surfaces immediate actions to red...
4L's
The 4 L's retrospective helps teams reflect on workshops or projects. It uses four perspectives: Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For. This gives a ...
Design System Validation Protocol
Teams must be confident in design system components before adoption. This exercise builds a validation protocol. It covers visual accuracy, accessibil...
Lightning Demos
Get inspired by solutions from various industries. Participants research 2-3 examples and present them in 3-minute demos. Look for patterns and transf...
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...
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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!