Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Component Audit And Categorization
A component audit catalogs every UI element across your product. It reveals inconsistencies and redundancies that you might not know exist. This exerc...
Storyboard
Storyboards visually narrate user interactions with a product or service. They use sketches or images in panels to show the user experience over time....
Journey Stage Breakdown
Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...
Success Metrics
This exercise helps teams define measurable indicators to show if a service is hitting its goals and delivering value. It ensures you're tracking the ...
How-Now-Wow
The How-Now-Wow matrix helps teams select ideas. It categorizes them by originality and how easy they are to implement. This 2x2 matrix highlights inn...
Four-Step Sketch
This exercise guides participants to create solution sketches through focused stages: notes, ideas, Crazy 8s, and a final sketch. It helps move beyond...
Concept Testing
Concept testing helps you get early user feedback on your ideas. Validate assumptions and refine concepts before you invest too much time and money. I...
Weak Signals Scanning
Weak signals are early signs of significant future changes. This scanning method helps teams spot emerging issues, innovations, and shifts in values b...
Inconsistency Audit
Your design system's principles aren't consistently followed? The Inconsistency Audit finds where current work violates those principles. This reveals...
Principles Testing
Principles look great, but do they hold up? Principles Testing applies your draft principles to real decisions to see if they're useful. This exercise...
Stakeholder Impact Mapping
Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent soluti...
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.
Kano Model
The Kano Model helps teams categorize features by customer satisfaction and functionality. It clarifies which features delight users versus those that...
Storyboarding
Create comic strip-style stories to visualize user scenarios. Each storyboard shows user context, problem, solution interaction, and outcome in 6-8 pa...
Touchpoint Identification
Customers don't follow a straight path with your product. It's a series of interactions with your brand. Touchpoint Identification maps every interact...
Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas puts your entire business on one page. This forces clarity on how you create, deliver, and capture value. It's a thinking to...
User Story
User stories capture features from the user's point of view. They follow the format: "As a [user type], I want [goal] so that [benefit]." This keeps t...
Co-Creation Workshop
A co-creation workshop unites stakeholders to design solutions. Participants become equal partners. They combine perspectives to generate innovative i...
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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!