Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Reaction Cards
Customers struggle to express feelings. Reaction Cards provides the vocabulary. Using adjective cards (energetic, trustworthy, innovative, overwhelmin...
T-Chart
Use a T-chart to compare ideas or decisions. This simple tool analyzes options through contrasting lenses. Think pros/cons, before/after, or facts/opi...
Emotional Journey Mapping
Customers remember how your product makes them feel, not its features. Emotional Journey Mapping adds emotional context to the customer journey. It tr...
Heuristic Evaluation Protocol
Heuristic evaluation spots usability problems fast using expert reviews. Evaluators check an interface against usability principles. This happens befo...
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.
Wind Tunneling
Wind Tunneling stress-tests strategic options against various future scenarios. Like testing an aircraft in a wind tunnel, this exercise identifies vu...
Design System Validation Protocol
Teams must be confident in design system components before adoption. This exercise builds a validation protocol. It covers visual accuracy, accessibil...
Interview Guide
This framework helps you conduct user interviews. It balances structured data collection with natural conversation. Expect unexpected insights.
Journey Stage Breakdown
Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...
Provocations
Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...
Concept Selection
Choose the strongest concepts to move forward using varied evaluation methods. Balance intuition with structured analysis to select ideas with the hig...
Importance/urgency Chart
Use the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize ideas. Sort items by importance and urgency. This helps decide what to do now and where to focus resources.
Decider Vote
The Decider makes the final call on which solution(s) to prototype. They use a super-vote, leveraging team input and strategic judgment to choose the ...
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...
Competitive Alternative Identification
Customers weigh all options, not just direct competitors. Competitive Alternative Identification maps these choices to reveal hidden competition. This...
Kano Model
The Kano Model helps teams categorize features by customer satisfaction and functionality. It clarifies which features delight users versus those that...
Research Plan
A research plan keeps user research systematic and effective. It outlines objectives, methods, timeline, and deliverables. This ensures the research m...
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...
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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!