Exercises

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

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User Scenarios

1.3 hours

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

Design Token Exploration

2 hours

Design tokens are the core of your design system. They are colors, spacing, typography, and other values that ensure consistency. This exercise helps ...

SWOT Analysis

1 hour

SWOT analysis helps teams understand their current position and strategize effectively. It's a structured brainstorming method to uncover Strengths, W...

Paper Prototyping

45 mins

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

Jobs To Be Done

2 hours

Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) helps you understand why people "hire" products or services. It's about the progress people seek, not just their demographics. ...

Value Proposition Canvas

2 hours

The Value Proposition Canvas links your offering to real customer needs. Many products fail because teams build what *they* think is valuable, not wha...

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...

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...

Strategic Backcasting

3 hours

Your team knows where you want to be in 2030, but the path from here to there feels impossibly complex. Strategic Backcasting flips traditional planni...

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...

Ask the Experts

2 hours

Interview stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather insights. Experts share knowledge while the team captures notes and identifies opportuniti...

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...

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...

Min Specs

50 mins

Focus on essential rules to spark innovation. Remove unnecessary specifications so teams can adapt and find novel solutions within clear boundaries.

Concept Walkthrough

1.5 hours 1

Walk stakeholders through service concepts to get feedback. Validate ideas and improve service design before launch. This exercise helps align everyon...

Cover Story

1.5 hours

Imagine your future success splashed across a magazine cover. This exercise turns abstract goals into a concrete, inspiring vision through creative st...

Cross-Impact Analysis

3 hours

Cross-impact analysis explores how trends and events influence each other in a complex system. It maps direct and indirect relationships, revealing ho...

Designer Top Trumps

30 mins

This exercise fosters team bonding through playful self-expression using custom trading cards. Participants design personal cards highlighting their d...