Participants list individual priorities on cards, then organize and prioritize them as a group through voting. This exercise helps find consensus, esp...

Complex decisions have many factors and paths. Decision Tree Mapping visualizes these structures. It shows all options, decision points, and outcomes....

This exercise, inspired by LUMA, helps teams prioritize improvements by assessing impact and effort. Evaluate user impact (severity on task completion...

This exercise, from 18F, gets everyone designing together, regardless of role or drawing skills. It turns abstract ideas into visuals teams can discus...

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

Create a strategic timeline for your service's evolution. Align development with business goals and user needs. A service roadmap helps visualize and ...

Teams often say they value "innovation" and "collaboration." But what do those words really mean? Values mapping makes the abstract concrete. Map out ...

Observe users interacting with a product or service, asking them to verbalize their thoughts aloud. This reveals friction points and unexpected uses.

Want to truly understand someone? Live their experience. This exercise simulates user journeys through role-play. Navigate in a wheelchair. Use softwa...

You have many ideas but limited resources. This Importance vs. Difficulty Matrix helps you decide what to do first. Plot each idea based on its import...

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

Uncover team alignment and expose hidden disagreements before they cause problems. Team vision and alignment mapping highlights shared understanding a...

Experience diagramming maps a person's journey through a task. It reveals smooth spots and pain points. This shows what happens and how it feels. Use ...

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

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...

Prototyping makes ideas tangible. Test these representations with users before development. This 240-minute exercise covers prototype fidelity, from p...

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...

Building things makes abstract ideas real. Participants create physical models of concepts using simple materials. As they build, they explain their t...