Exercises

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

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Accessibility Compliance Review

3 hours

Accessibility is essential for legal, ethical, and business reasons. This exercise guides you to systematically evaluate interfaces against WCAG. You'...

AI Functionalities Cards

2 hours 1

AI offers incredible potential, but how do you translate that into real-world applications? Functionality cards bridge this gap. They illustrate AI ca...

Question Transformation Workshop

1.5 hours

Bad questions yield bad answers. This exercise re-trains your team to ask open, curious, and productive questions. Transform real-world questions to b...

Assumption Testing

1.5 hours 1

Before you spend big, check your assumptions. This exercise helps you design quick, low-cost experiments. Test what you believe about your users, the ...

Service Image

1 hour

A service image visually represents the entire service experience. It communicates the core essence and character to both stakeholders and users. This...

Service Blueprint

2 hours

Service blueprints map both customer-facing ('frontstage') and behind-the-scenes ('backstage') activities. This exercise maps dependencies and reveals...

Accessibility Evaluation Protocol

2 hours

Audit accessibility early to avoid costly fixes later. Evaluate against WCAG, user needs, and assistive tech. Finding problems in design is cheaper th...

Concept Walkthrough

1.5 hours 1

Walk stakeholders through service concepts to get feedback. Validate ideas and improve service design before launch. This exercise helps align everyon...

Experience Principles

1.5 hours 1

Experience Principles are guidelines defining the user experience's intended character. They act as a north star, guiding design decisions throughout ...

Research Plan Creation

1.8 hours

This exercise turns vague research ideas into solid plans. Teams define goals, pick methods, and plan recruitment. They'll also map timelines and thin...

Futures Wheel

1.5 hours 1

The Futures Wheel maps the cascading consequences of a trend, event, or decision. Developed by futurist Jerome Glenn, it helps teams systematically th...

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.

Comparative Analysis

2 hours 1

Map the competitive landscape. Compare similar solutions. Spot patterns and ways to stand out. It's not about copying, but about informed innovation.

The Perfect Future

45 mins 1

The Perfect Future helps teams think beyond incremental changes. It sparks ideas for truly transformative customer experiences. Instead of small tweak...

Inconsistency Audit

1.8 hours

Your design system's principles aren't consistently followed? The Inconsistency Audit finds where current work violates those principles. This reveals...

Retrospective

1 hour

This exercise helps teams reflect on recent work. It's a chance to celebrate wins and find ways to improve. Regular retrospectives drive continuous im...

Hypothesis Generation

1 hour

A systematic approach to creating testable assumptions about user behavior, needs, and service solutions that can be validated through research and ex...

Theme Discovery

2 hours 1

Research yields raw data: interviews, surveys, observations. Theme Discovery transforms this into insights by pinpointing patterns. In 2 hours, affini...