Exercises

Envision your idea as a magazine cover story. What's the headline? This exercise helps you define success and work backward to achieve it. A mock maga...

This exercise, from 18F, gets everyone designing together, regardless of role or drawing skills. It turns abstract ideas into visuals teams can discus...

Prototype reviews often miss the mark, being either too gentle or overly harsh. This structured approach ensures constructive feedback without harming...

This method helps you evaluate a project, experience, or idea. Roses represent what's working well. Thorns highlight problems or pain points. Buds sig...

Use Atlassian's empathy mapping to turn customer insights into improvements. This structured exercise explores personas and pain points. It ensures ne...

Map your ecosystem to see entities, flows, and relationships. Capture the forces and patterns driving system behavior. It's a revealing exercise.

Framing problems dictates the solutions. Statement starters help view challenges from new angles. Prompts like 'How might we...' reframe problems into...

Create a strategic timeline for your service's evolution. Align development with business goals and user needs. A service roadmap helps visualize and ...

An Interface Audit is a systematic review of a digital product's visual and interactive elements. This 180-minute exercise catalogs styles, colors, ic...

Stakeholder Influence Mapping visually represents people affecting your project's success. It positions them by power and interest. This 45-minute exe...

You've developed a solid solution. What will it take to implement it? Your current team might not be enough. This exercise helps you assess what you h...

Every problem is a design opportunity. Frame challenges as "How Might We" questions to drive innovative solutions. This exercise, adapted from the LUM...

Interviews can stall in small talk. This exercise helps you move past that. Start real conversations and gain deeper insights from your interviewees.

This exercise, adapted from the LUMA collection, helps teams align on goals. It ensures everyone works toward the same outcome. It's useful for clarif...

Practice interviewing under pressure. Five minutes forces you to ask meaningful questions. Constraints reveal skill. You can't waste time on small tal...

Style Tiles help you get feedback on a solution's visual direction. It's a great way to validate designs with real users.

OKRs help teams set ambitious goals and track progress. Align your team and organization around measurable results that focus on what matters.

A design vision defines success before building. It's not a mood board, but a 'north star.' This exercise clarifies the visual and experiential direct...