Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
User Scenarios
User scenarios narrate service interactions in specific contexts. They explain the envisioned experience through relevant user stories.
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...
NUF Test
The NUF framework scores ideas based on novelty, usefulness, and feasibility. This provides a quantitative way to prioritize concepts.
Post-Up
Participants write ideas on virtual sticky notes and post them to a shared online board. This method quickly gathers input from the whole group. It's ...
As-Is Scenario Map
Visualize the current user experience through a story. Document what users do, think, and feel. This exercise is a great way to understand the current...
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...
Love Audit
The Love Audit helps teams find product touchpoints that build emotional connection or cause user friction. Many products fail because they don't conn...
Brainwriting
Silent brainstorming works. Participants write ideas and build on them through rotation. No talking means no interruptions or loud voices. Silence rem...
Interview Script Development
Structured scripts are key to good interviews. This 90-minute exercise helps create interview guides that balance structure and flexibility. Develop p...
Check-in/Check-out
Start and end sessions with mindful sharing. Check-ins help people arrive mentally and emotionally. Check-outs process learning and close intentionall...
Accessibility Compliance Review
Accessibility is essential for legal, ethical, and business reasons. This exercise guides you to systematically evaluate interfaces against WCAG. You'...
Customer Journey Mapping
Map the end-to-end user experience across all touchpoints. Visualize the complete customer journey, including pre- and post-service interactions. Iden...
Pain Point And Opportunity Identification
Every customer journey has friction and opportunity. Pain Point and Opportunity Identification examines each customer experience stage. We find custom...
Ecosystem Mapping
Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can m...
Stinky Fish
This vulnerability exercise transforms team dynamics. It surfaces unspoken anxieties before they impact your work. Teams draw fish and fill them with ...
AI Functionalities Cards
AI offers incredible potential, but how do you translate that into real-world applications? Functionality cards bridge this gap. They illustrate AI ca...
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...
Energizer Activities
Energizers are short activities to re-energize participants. Use them to refocus attention, boost mood, or combat post-lunch drowsiness.
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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!