Exercises

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

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Concept Selection

1.3 hours

Choose the strongest concepts to move forward using varied evaluation methods. Balance intuition with structured analysis to select ideas with the hig...

Tensions

2 hours

Tensions exist between speed and quality, innovation and reliability, user needs and business goals. This exercise surfaces those competing values. It...

The Perfect Future

45 mins 1

The Perfect Future helps teams think beyond incremental changes. It sparks ideas for truly transformative customer experiences. Instead of small tweak...

Emerging Tech Scenario Design

3 hours

Your innovation team needs to explore how AI, quantum computing, biotech, and Web3 could reshape your industry. Emerging Tech Scenario Design creates ...

Design System Governance Framework Development

2 hours 1

A design system needs governance to thrive. Without it, components become outdated. This exercise helps you establish rules, roles, and processes. We'...

Emotional Response Mapping

1.5 hours

Customers feel emotions at every stage of their journey. Emotional Response Mapping identifies those specific reactions. You'll uncover opportunities ...

Future Scenario Mapping

2 hours

Imagine your team needs to prepare for a future that hasn't happened yet. Future Scenario Mapping helps strategic teams stress-test plans against poss...

Five Whys

30 mins

The Five Whys is a classic technique to find the root cause of a problem. By repeatedly asking "why," you'll drill down from symptoms to the core issu...

Customer Journey Mapping

1.3 hours

Map the end-to-end user experience across all touchpoints. Visualize the complete customer journey, including pre- and post-service interactions. Iden...

Assumption Testing

1.5 hours 1

Before you spend big, check your assumptions. This exercise helps you design quick, low-cost experiments. Test what you believe about your users, the ...

AF - Motivations

30 mins

Go beyond stated user needs to uncover the real "why." Surface-level requests often hide deeper motivations. For example, "I want it faster" could mea...

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 ...

Skills Gap Analysis

3 hours

Don't let hidden skill gaps derail projects. Skills gap analysis compares necessary skills with your team's current abilities. This reveals where you ...

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...

Personas

3 hours

Personas represent key user types. They range from behavior patterns to detailed profiles with needs and backgrounds. Use them to focus design on real...

AI Functionalities Cards

2 hours 1

AI offers incredible potential, but how do you translate that into real-world applications? Functionality cards bridge this gap. They illustrate AI ca...

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...

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...