Exercises

Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.

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User Story

45 mins

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...

Ecosystem Mapping

1 hour

Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can m...

Experience Map

1.3 hours 2

Experience maps provide a holistic view of the user's world. They go beyond journey maps to capture the full experience ecosystem, including environme...

Start, Stop, Continue

35 mins

This simple retrospective helps turn insights into action. Participants decide what to start, stop, and continue doing to maximize workshop impact.

What? So What? Now What?

40 mins

This exercise uses a structured reflection model. It guides your team from describing an experience to interpreting its significance, then planning fu...

Pattern Library Mapping

3 hours 1

Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...

Weak Signals Scanning

2 hours

Weak signals are early signs of significant future changes. This scanning method helps teams spot emerging issues, innovations, and shifts in values b...

SDT-Future Backcasting

3 hours 1

Future Backcasting is a planning method. Start with a clear, desirable future. Then, work backward to find the steps to get there. Unlike forecasting,...

Strategic Design Future Mapping

2 hours

Strategic Design Future Mapping makes possible futures visible, informing today's decisions. Map emerging trends and signals of change onto a canvas. ...

Designer Top Trumps

30 mins

This exercise fosters team bonding through playful self-expression using custom trading cards. Participants design personal cards highlighting their d...

Emotional Response Mapping

1.5 hours

Customers feel emotions at every stage of their journey. Emotional Response Mapping identifies those specific reactions. You'll uncover opportunities ...

Appreciative Interviews

1 hour

Instead of dwelling on problems, build on successes. Use paired interviews to uncover peak experiences. Participants explore conditions that enable th...

User Stories

45 mins

User stories capture features from the user's perspective. They follow this format: "As a [type of user], I want [goal] so that [benefit]." This ensur...

Ecosystem Map

3 hours

Ecosystem mapping visualizes the context of a service or product. It reveals actors, relationships, and influences impacting the user experience beyon...

Design System Governance Framework Development

2 hours 1

A design system needs governance to thrive. Without it, components become outdated. This exercise helps you establish rules, roles, and processes. We'...

Stakeholder Impact Mapping

1.3 hours 1

Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent soluti...

Content Type Mapping

2 hours

Before you build, map your content. Content type mapping identifies each content type, its attributes, relationships, and purpose. Unplanned content m...

Prototype Testing

1.3 hours 1

Test prototypes with real users. Learn what works and what doesn't. Focus on learning, not validation. Discover insights, don't prove assumptions.