Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Co-Creation Workshop
A co-creation workshop unites stakeholders to design solutions. Participants become equal partners. They combine perspectives to generate innovative i...
Nine Whys
Uncover your work's core purpose by repeatedly asking, "Why is this important?" This exercise reveals fundamental motivations. It connects daily tasks...
SDT-Journey Map
Journey mapping visualizes a person's experience to achieve a goal. It provides a holistic view of interactions with an organization, service, product...
Opportunity Reframing
Turn limitations into opportunities. Teams often see constraints as roadblocks. Reframing reveals how limits spark creativity and focus. Constraints f...
Service Safari
Service Safaris are field research. Teams experience real-world services as customers. They document the journey, touchpoints, and service quality. Th...
Value Proposition Canvas
The Value Proposition Canvas links your offering to real customer needs. Many products fail because teams build what *they* think is valuable, not wha...
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...
AF - System Actors
Map your product or service ecosystem. Identify key actors, stakeholders, and system dependencies. Visualize relationships to reveal opportunities and...
Assumption Grid
Assumption mapping helps teams expose hidden risks. Plot assumptions on a certainty vs. risk matrix. Identify which assumptions need validation before...
Card Sorting
Card sorting shows how people *actually* think about information. Not how you *assume* they do. Give participants cards with content or features. Ask ...
Importance/urgency Chart
Use the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize ideas. Sort items by importance and urgency. This helps decide what to do now and where to focus resources.
System Usability Scale (SUS) Administration & Scoring
The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a quick way to measure perceived usability. First, participants complete the SUS questionnaire after using a produ...
Diary Study
Diary studies capture user activities, experiences, and thoughts over time. They're great for revealing behaviors and contexts you can't easily observ...
Emotional Journey Mapping
Customers remember how your product makes them feel, not its features. Emotional Journey Mapping adds emotional context to the customer journey. It tr...
Cross-Impact Analysis
Cross-impact analysis explores how trends and events influence each other in a complex system. It maps direct and indirect relationships, revealing ho...
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. ...
Paper Prototyping
Use paper and scissors for quick concept testing. Create moveable interface elements. Simulate interactions. Test usability before coding.
Ecosystem Map
Ecosystem mapping visualizes the context of a service or product. It reveals actors, relationships, and influences impacting the user experience beyon...
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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!