Exercises

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

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Inclusive Meetings

5 mins

Use these techniques to make sure everyone contributes during meetings. These simple practices ensure all voices are heard, especially from quieter te...

Futures Wheel

1.5 hours 1

The Futures Wheel maps the cascading consequences of a trend, event, or decision. Developed by futurist Jerome Glenn, it helps teams systematically th...

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...

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

1 hour 2

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) tests your product idea with the least effort. It helps avoid building something nobody wants. Focus on core value and ...

Theme Discovery

2 hours 1

Research yields raw data: interviews, surveys, observations. Theme Discovery transforms this into insights by pinpointing patterns. In 2 hours, affini...

Interview Guide

45 mins

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

AI Ecosystem Mapping

2.5 hours

Confused by the AI hype? Map the AI landscape to make smart investments. See what's available, what's coming, and what competitors are doing. Most com...

Fist of Five

5 mins

Use hand signals for a quick consensus check. Participants show 0-5 fingers to indicate their agreement level with a proposal. This is a fast way to g...

Decider Vote

10 mins

The Decider makes the final call on which solution(s) to prototype. They use a super-vote, leveraging team input and strategic judgment to choose the ...

Solution Sketch

1.3 hours 1

Develop detailed solution concepts through a multi-step sketching process. This exercise combines rough doodling, Crazy 8s rapid ideation, and a detai...

Ideation Rules

15 mins

This exercise sets ground rules for effective brainstorming. It fosters psychological safety, encourages wild ideas, and promotes building on each oth...

Design System Landscape Mapping

2 hours

Before building a new design system, map what already exists. Design system landscape mapping inventories all components, patterns, styles, and docume...

Energizer Activities

10 mins

Energizers are short activities to re-energize participants. Use them to refocus attention, boost mood, or combat post-lunch drowsiness.

User Interview Guide

1 hour

A user interview guide helps you conduct consistent, thorough interviews. It's a structured, flexible document with questions and prompts to uncover u...

Service Image

1 hour

A service image visually represents the entire service experience. It communicates the core essence and character to both stakeholders and users. This...

Component Classification

3.4 hours

Your design system's components feel disorganized. Component Classification creates a taxonomy based on function, complexity, and relationships. In th...

Manifesto Development

1.5 hours

Manifestos inspire movements; principles guide decisions. This 90-minute exercise helps teams turn principles into a compelling manifesto. It works be...

Point of View Statement

30 mins

This exercise defines a problem from the user's perspective using a structured format. It creates an actionable problem statement based on real user r...