Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Co-Creation Workshop
A co-creation workshop unites stakeholders to design solutions. Participants become equal partners. They combine perspectives to generate innovative i...
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...
Customer Touchpoint Map
A customer touchpoint map visualizes all interactions between a customer and your organization. It helps you understand how customers connect with you...
Interview Guide
This framework helps you conduct user interviews. It balances structured data collection with natural conversation. Expect unexpected insights.
SDT-Journey Map
Journey mapping visualizes a person's experience to achieve a goal. It provides a holistic view of interactions with an organization, service, product...
Assumption Grid
Assumption mapping helps teams expose hidden risks. Plot assumptions on a certainty vs. risk matrix. Identify which assumptions need validation before...
Concept Walkthrough
Walk stakeholders through service concepts to get feedback. Validate ideas and improve service design before launch. This exercise helps align everyon...
Design Archaeology
Design principles aren't invented; they're discovered by examining what works. Design Archaeology systematically deconstructs existing designs to extr...
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) tests your product idea with the least effort. It helps avoid building something nobody wants. Focus on core value and ...
Provocations
Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...
Problem Prioritization Matrix
Teams face many problems with limited resources. The Problem Prioritization Matrix helps evaluate problems using clear criteria. This helps focus on t...
Rapid Sketching
Speed crushes perfectionism. Rapid sketching forces ideas out before overthinking kicks in. Many think they can't sketch, which is why this works. Giv...
What, So What, Now What?
Use this structured debrief to help teams make sense of shared experiences. It guides teams from observations to implications, leading to clear action...
Problem Definition Canvas
Teams often solve the wrong problems. The Problem Definition Canvas brings structure. It systematically explores context, stakeholders, constraints, a...
Synthesis Wall
The Synthesis Wall helps organize research findings visually to spot patterns and insights from data. Use it to transform observations into actionable...
Fishbone Diagram
The Fishbone diagram helps teams find the root causes of problems. It organizes potential causes into categories that branch from a central problem.
Point Of View Statements
Turn user research into actionable problem statements. Use the "User + Need + Insight" framework to focus your team on real user needs and create clea...
Cross-Impact Analysis
Cross-impact analysis explores how trends and events influence each other in a complex system. It maps direct and indirect relationships, revealing ho...
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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!