Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Video Scenario
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...
LUMA - Critique
Critique sessions improve designs through structured feedback. Constructive critique focuses on what works, what doesn't, and how to improve. When don...
Ideation And Solution Exploration
You've defined the problem; now, it's time to generate solutions. This focused 60-minute ideation session helps teams quickly move from problem unders...
18F - Content Highlighter Testing
Content Highlighter Testing is a fast usability method. Users highlight text, marking clear parts in one color and confusing parts in another. This ex...
Round Robin
Round Robin helps teams build on each other's ideas. It's a structured way to evolve concepts by passing them from person to person. Each participant ...
Quick Reference Guide
You've conceived an idea; now, write its rule book. A Quick Reference Guide keeps your design consistent from start to finish. Clarity is key. This gu...
18F - Content Audit
A Content Audit is a thorough inventory and analysis of all content users encounter on a website or within a product. This exercise catalogs pages, do...
1-2-4-All
Get everyone involved in generating ideas. This structure moves from solo reflection to pairs, then groups of four, and finally the whole group. All v...
Team Role Exploration
Misunderstandings about roles cause conflict. This exercise clarifies responsibilities, expectations, and decision authority. Ambiguous roles create d...
Statement Starters
Framing problems dictates the solutions. Statement starters help view challenges from new angles. Prompts like 'How might we...' reframe problems into...
LUMA - Heuristic Review
Heuristic evaluation is a fast way for experts to find usability problems in designs. It uses established principles (heuristics) to systematically ev...
LUMA - Interviewing
Interviews are powerful because people enjoy sharing their stories. Talking directly with stakeholders provides insights into their experiences, feeli...
Team Collaboration Simulation
Teams often struggle to collaborate effectively, especially under pressure. This team collaboration simulation provides a structured challenge requiri...
User Flow Wireframing
Map user journeys at low fidelity before debating visual design. User flow wireframing exposes steps to achieve goals, revealing gaps and friction. Mo...
IDEO - Build & Run Prototypes
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...
Empathy Interviews
Empathy interviews uncover user needs through one-on-one conversations. Focus on stories, not opinions. Ask "why" to go deeper. Observe body language ...
Atlassian-Customer Journey Mapping
Map your customer's end-to-end experience with your product or service. This exercise helps teams grasp customer needs, pain points, and opportunities...
LUMA - System Usability Scale
The System Usability Scale (SUS) offers a quick way to measure usability using a 10-question survey. It provides a reliable usability score, allowing ...
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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!