Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
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...
Ecosystem Mapping
Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can m...
Experience Map
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
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?
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
Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...
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...
SDT-Future Backcasting
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
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
This exercise fosters team bonding through playful self-expression using custom trading cards. Participants design personal cards highlighting their d...
Emotional Response Mapping
Customers feel emotions at every stage of their journey. Emotional Response Mapping identifies those specific reactions. You'll uncover opportunities ...
Appreciative Interviews
Instead of dwelling on problems, build on successes. Use paired interviews to uncover peak experiences. Participants explore conditions that enable th...
User Stories
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
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
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
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
Before you build, map your content. Content type mapping identifies each content type, its attributes, relationships, and purpose. Unplanned content m...
Prototype Testing
Test prototypes with real users. Learn what works and what doesn't. Focus on learning, not validation. Discover insights, don't prove assumptions.
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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!