Exercises

Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.

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Opportunity Reframing

3 hours

Turn limitations into opportunities. Teams often see constraints as roadblocks. Reframing reveals how limits spark creativity and focus. Constraints f...

Inspiration Cards

30 mins 1

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

2 hours

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

45 mins

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

3 hours

Make your design beliefs explicit. Unarticulated philosophy leads to inconsistent decisions. Different people default to different beliefs, creating f...

System Map

2.5 hours

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

1.3 hours 1

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

2 hours

Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...

Service Specifications

3 hours

Service specifications document every touchpoint, feature, and interaction. They guide design and implementation.

Importance/urgency Chart

35 mins

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

1 hour

A research plan keeps user research systematic and effective. It outlines objectives, methods, timeline, and deliverables. This ensures the research m...

User Story

45 mins

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

3 hours 1

Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...

Concept Testing

1.5 hours

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

45 mins

This framework helps you conduct user interviews. It balances structured data collection with natural conversation. Expect unexpected insights.

What, So What, Now What?

45 mins

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

1.3 hours

User scenarios narrate service interactions in specific contexts. They explain the envisioned experience through relevant user stories.

Paper Prototyping

45 mins

Use paper and scissors for quick concept testing. Create moveable interface elements. Simulate interactions. Test usability before coding.