Exercises

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

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Experience Prototypes

3 hours

Service prototyping rapidly simulates service experiences. Teams and users test service concepts, focusing on interaction quality before launch.

Dynamic Personas

2.5 hours

Evolve your personas to anticipate user behavior. Identify key design interventions that guide users toward desired future states. This exercise helps...

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...

Impact Journey

3 hours

This tool helps you analyze how service experiences affect well-being, society, and the environment. Use it to generate ideas for more sustainable and...

Start, Stop, Continue

35 mins

This simple retrospective helps turn insights into action. Participants decide what to start, stop, and continue doing to maximize workshop impact.

Product Vision Statement

30 mins

This exercise aligns your team around a clear product vision. Participants will each draft a one-sentence vision. The team then synthesizes these into...

Stakeholder Map

2 hours 2

A stakeholder map visually represents people who influence your service or project. It reveals relationships, power, and communication needs across ev...

As-Is Scenario Map

1.5 hours

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...

What? So What? Now What?

40 mins

This exercise uses a structured reflection model. It guides your team from describing an experience to interpreting its significance, then planning fu...

Ecosystem Loops

2.7 hours

Map circular value flows and feedback loops in service ecosystems. Pinpoint key areas for sustainable and regenerative service design. This exercise h...

Retrospective

1 hour

This exercise helps teams reflect on recent work. It's a chance to celebrate wins and find ways to improve. Regular retrospectives drive continuous im...

Product Box

1 hour

Make your value proposition tangible with a product box. This exercise clarifies what matters to customers. It also aligns teams around a customer-cen...

Visual Design Style Exploration

2 hours

Explore multiple visual directions before settling on a single style. Style exploration generates various aesthetic approaches. This helps determine w...

Issue Cards

1.5 hours 1

Use physical cards to drive discussion. They suggest new exploration avenues. Cards structure thinking and spark ideas. Isolate elements as conversati...

Journey Map

4 hours

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...

Accessibility Evaluation Protocol

2 hours

Audit accessibility early to avoid costly fixes later. Evaluate against WCAG, user needs, and assistive tech. Finding problems in design is cheaper th...

Trend Intersection

2.5 hours

Individual trends are interesting, but their intersections reveal billion-dollar opportunities. This exercise systematically combines 2-3 major trends...

Emotional Journey Mapping

1 hour

Customers remember how your product makes them feel, not its features. Emotional Journey Mapping adds emotional context to the customer journey. It tr...