Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Accessibility Compliance Review
Accessibility is essential for legal, ethical, and business reasons. This exercise guides you to systematically evaluate interfaces against WCAG. You'...
6-3-5 Brainwriting
This is a silent brainstorming exercise. Participants build on each other's ideas in structured rounds. Six people generate three ideas in five minute...
NUF Test
The NUF framework scores ideas based on novelty, usefulness, and feasibility. This provides a quantitative way to prioritize concepts.
Recruiting Screener
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.
Rough Prototyping
Create service concepts rapidly with basic materials. Test ideas cheaply before investing in detailed development. It's about fast learning, not perfe...
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...
Design Archaeology
Design principles aren't invented; they're discovered by examining what works. Design Archaeology systematically deconstructs existing designs to extr...
Offering Map
This exercise creates a visual map of your organization's products, services, and value propositions. It reveals the relationships and dependencies be...
Evaluation Matrix
Use an evaluation matrix to compare and prioritize ideas. This structured approach uses defined criteria and scoring. It helps teams make objective de...
To-Be Scenario Map
Envision the ideal user experience. Start with current insights. Design an improved 'To-Be' experience that solves user pain points and achieves your ...
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...
Journey Map
Journey mapping visualizes a person's process to achieve a goal. It's a holistic view of interactions with an organization, service, or product over t...
Research Plan Creation
This exercise turns vague research ideas into solid plans. Teams define goals, pick methods, and plan recruitment. They'll also map timelines and thin...
Principle Creation Sprint
Principles often need rapid creation, not slow consensus. The Principle Creation Sprint generates 15-25 design principles in 2.5 hours. Use this inten...
Career Development Mapping
Mapping career paths clarifies opportunities and boosts retention. Many leave roles due to unclear growth, not just compensation. This exercise helps ...
Stakeholders Map
Create a visual map of everyone with a stake in your project. See relationships, power dynamics, and communication needs across your ecosystem. This h...
Mind Mapping
Mind mapping helps you capture and organize information visually. Start with a central concept and branch out with related ideas, words, and images. I...
SDT-Future Backcasting
Future Backcasting is a planning method. Start with a clear, desirable future. Then, work backward to find the steps to get there. Unlike forecasting,...
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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!