Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Opportunity Reframing
Turn limitations into opportunities. Teams often see constraints as roadblocks. Reframing reveals how limits spark creativity and focus. Constraints f...
Inspiration Cards
Stuck? Use curated examples to spark fresh ideas. Explore solutions from different industries to break out of conventional thinking. It's not always a...
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...
Design the Box
Design a retail box to envision your product's success. Teams create packaging with taglines, features, testimonials, and visuals, as if the product i...
Design Philosophy Articulation
Make your design beliefs explicit. Unarticulated philosophy leads to inconsistent decisions. Different people default to different beliefs, creating f...
System Map
A system map visually represents all actors involved in a service and their connections. It clarifies how materials, energy, information, money, and d...
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,...
Journey Stage Breakdown
Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...
Service Specifications
Service specifications document every touchpoint, feature, and interaction. They guide design and implementation.
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.
Research Plan
A research plan keeps user research systematic and effective. It outlines objectives, methods, timeline, and deliverables. This ensures the research m...
User Story
User stories capture features from the user's point of view. They follow the format: "As a [user type], I want [goal] so that [benefit]." This keeps t...
Pattern Library Mapping
Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...
Concept Testing
Concept testing helps you get early user feedback on your ideas. Validate assumptions and refine concepts before you invest too much time and money. I...
Interview Guide
This framework helps you conduct user interviews. It balances structured data collection with natural conversation. Expect unexpected insights.
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...
User Scenarios
User scenarios narrate service interactions in specific contexts. They explain the envisioned experience through relevant user stories.
Paper Prototyping
Use paper and scissors for quick concept testing. Create moveable interface elements. Simulate interactions. Test usability before coding.
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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!