Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Concept Selection
Choose the strongest concepts to move forward using varied evaluation methods. Balance intuition with structured analysis to select ideas with the hig...
Tensions
Tensions exist between speed and quality, innovation and reliability, user needs and business goals. This exercise surfaces those competing values. It...
The Perfect Future
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
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
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 Without it, components become outdated.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
Customers feel emotions at every stage of their journey. Emotional Response Mapping identifies those specific reactions. You'll uncover opportunities ...
Future Scenario Mapping
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
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
Map the end-to-end user experience across all touchpoints. Visualize the complete customer journey, including pre- and post-service interactions. Iden...
Assumption Testing
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
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
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
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
This exercise fosters team bonding through playful self-expression using custom trading cards. Participants design personal cards highlighting their d...
Personas
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
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
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
Evolve your personas to anticipate user behavior. Identify key design interventions that guide users toward desired future states. This exercise helps...
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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!