Exercises

Discover 383+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.

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Cover Story Mock-Up

2 hours

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...

18F - Design Studio

1.5 hours 2

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

Quick Prototype Review

25 mins 3

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

Rose, Thorn, Bud

30 mins 1

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

Atlassian-Empathy Mapping

1 hour

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

SDT-Ecosystem Map

3 hours 1

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

Statement Starters

45 mins

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

Service Roadmap

2 hours 2

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

18F - Interface Audit

3 hours

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

18F - Stakeholder Influence Mapping

45 mins

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

IDEO - Capabilities Quicksheet

1 hour

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...

IDEO - How Might We?

1.1 hours

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

IDEO - Conversation Starters

45 mins

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

IDEO - Align On Your Impact Goals

1 hour

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...

5-Minute User Interview

15 mins 4

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

18F - Visual Preference Testing

1.5 hours

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

Atlassian - OKRs & Key Results

2 hours

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

Design Vision

2 hours

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...