Brainstorms, from the LUMA collection, help tap into collective knowledge and creativity. The aim is a high volume of ideas, prioritizing openness and...

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA collection, helps teams align on goals. It ensures everyone works toward the same outcome. It's useful for clarif...

Engage participants meaningfully. Center their hopes and needs for your project. Part of the LUMA collection.

Need fresh eyes on your research? This exercise helps you shift focus to a new context. It's part of the LUMA collection and a solid way to shake thin...

Non-verbal cues matter. Body language, eye contact, and facial expressions boost engagement and understanding. Master these to improve communication.

This exercise, inspired by the LUMA collection and IDEO.org, focuses on generating numerous ideas through collaboration and embracing unconventional s...

Quickly build and test prototypes to learn fast. This exercise helps you share ideas immediately and iterate based on feedback. Part of the LUMA colle...

Bringing a concept to market often requires help. This exercise focuses on building the partnerships you'll need.

Bundling Ideas turns individual concepts into solid solutions. It's a mix-and-match game to combine the best parts of several ideas.

You've developed a solid solution. What will it take to implement it? Your current team might not be enough. This exercise helps you assess what you h...

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA system, helps teams analyze data and identify insights with stakeholders.

Interviews can stall in small talk. This exercise helps you move past that. Start real conversations and gain deeper insights from your interviewees.

Crazy 8s is a rapid sketching exercise. Participants generate eight ideas in eight minutes. This constraint forces quick ideation, bypassing perfectio...

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA collection, helps you transform initial ideas into a well-developed concept ready for refinement. It's about movi...

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA system, helps you build a clear narrative. It shows how your solution leads to positive change over time. It's us...

You have a solid idea. Now, communicate it effectively to funders, partners, and customers.

The Timeline exercise helps you visualize and plan your project's implementation. It's a strategic planning method from the LUMA collection that allow...

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA system, helps you consider everyone affected by your design. It's about expanding your perspective to include the...

Indicators help us track our impact over time by defining the data we collect. This exercise, derived from the LUMA collection, focuses on creating th...

Scaling can be exciting, but requires careful planning. This exercise helps you explore your objectives and opportunities before you commit to scaling...

Framing the design challenge is critical for success. This exercise helps teams articulate the problem, define a suitable scope, and drive toward impa...

Getting feedback on your ideas and prototypes is key during ideation. It ensures you keep the target users at the center of your project. This exercis...

Every problem is a design opportunity. Frame challenges as "How Might We" questions to drive innovative solutions. This exercise, adapted from the LUM...

Incorporating user feedback is key to human-centered design. This exercise helps you refine ideas based on prototype testing. It's part of the LUMA co...

Interviews are guided conversations. You'll learn about the hopes, desires, and aspirations of the people you're designing for. This exercise is part ...

Collecting feedback from your users is essential. It's a continuous process that keeps your design user-centered as you move forward. Regular feedback...

A Live Prototype puts your solution into the real world for weeks or months. This is your chance to stress test the complete system and see how all th...

Photos are a powerful way to understand someone's life, especially when they're the photographer. This exercise, part of the LUMA collection, helps re...

A Pilot is a crucial, longer-term test of your solution before market launch. Unlike a Live Prototype, it's a sustained engagement that tests your ent...

Power Mapping helps teams reflect on power dynamics and how it should be shared among stakeholders. It's crucial for equity-centered design, helping t...

Prototyping makes ideas real. It helps you learn by doing. Get fast feedback from your target users. This exercise comes from the LUMA collection.

Use comic book-style frames to visually map your product or service. Plotting elements helps you deeply understand your idea. Create a rough prototype...

This chart helps you understand how new concepts might require your organization to grow. It's a simple way to visualize the challenges ahead.

This exercise, adapted from LUMA, helps teams turn journey maps into action. Analyze maps to find patterns, pain points, and opportunities. Then, tran...

This simple research method helps you uncover the motivations and assumptions behind a person's behavior. It's part of the LUMA collection.

Journey Maps help you strategize for key moments in a product or service. Identify opportunities by visualizing the customer's experience.

Create a user scenario or story as a group by drawing it in sequential panels, like a comic book. Aim for eight panels and give participants ten minut...

Video brings concepts to life. Instead of just describing an idea, show stakeholders how it works in a realistic scenario. A video scenario captures a...

This one-day design thinking bootcamp covers the IDEO design process. Participants move from problem definition to solution testing. It blends theory ...

This two-day workshop gets participants doing Human-Centered Design, the IDEO way. You'll learn to deeply understand users and create solutions that m...