Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Ecosystem Map
Ecosystem mapping visualizes the context of a service or product. It reveals actors, relationships, and influences impacting the user experience beyon...
Setting the Scene
Quickly gather context to understand current challenges. This exercise establishes a shared understanding of problems and constraints before solutioni...
RACI Matrix Development
Use a RACI matrix to clarify roles and responsibilities. It identifies who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for key activities or ...
Manifesto Refinement
You have a draft manifesto. Now, make it powerful. Manifesto Refinement transforms initial statements into memorable, actionable, and distinctive prin...
Service Safari
Service Safaris are field research. Teams experience real-world services as customers. They document the journey, touchpoints, and service quality. Th...
UI Pattern Library Inventory
Before building a design system, catalog every UI pattern in your product. A pattern inventory highlights inconsistencies and redundancies. It also re...
S.c.a.m.p.e.r.
SCAMPER is a structured creative thinking technique. It uses seven prompts to modify existing ideas and generate new solutions. Each letter offers a d...
Job Statement Framing
Job Statement Framing ensures precise language in Jobs To Be Done. This 75-minute exercise crafts clear job statements. These capture customer intent,...
Impromptu Networking
Start with paired conversations to quickly share challenges and expectations. This exercise builds connections and surfaces diverse viewpoints right f...
Benchmark Creation Protocol
Benchmarking shows your current state, letting you track progress. This exercise sets initial metrics for usability, satisfaction, or other UX aspects...
Stakeholder Map
A stakeholder map visually represents people who influence your service or project. It reveals relationships, power, and communication needs across ev...
Dynamic Personas
Evolve your personas to anticipate user behavior. Identify key design interventions that guide users toward desired future states. This exercise helps...
Recruiting Screener
Use a screener to find the right research participants. It's a questionnaire or interview that helps you select people based on your study's needs.
RICE
The RICE scoring model helps teams prioritize initiatives based on Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. It delivers a calculated priority score for ...
Touchpoint Matrix
Map every service interaction across channels and journey stages to get a bird's eye view of your service ecosystem. Use a matrix to spot gaps, overla...
System Scenario
This exercise expands scenario development to consider system-wide changes. Explore how services function within larger social, economic, and environm...
Service Image
A service image visually represents the entire service experience. It communicates the core essence and character to both stakeholders and users. This...
Skills Gap Analysis
Don't let hidden skill gaps derail projects. Skills gap analysis compares necessary skills with your team's current abilities. This reveals where you ...
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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!