Workshop Exercises Playbook

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These workshop exercises are part of the Workshop Patterns printed card deck.

A collection of workshop exercises that will help you ditch dull meetings and facilitate with confidence. It will help you master the design process and have more productive time with your team. The card deck will be ready for purchase in the end of 2025 and is now undergoing rigorous testing.

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20-Year Brand Roadmap

Ask what your company will be doing after 5, 10, 15, and 20 years

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Competitive Landscape

Position your brand relative to other companies

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Design Principles

Define what drives design decisions to ensure a consistent experience

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Golden Circle

Understand why you are in business - that is what people buy

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Golden Path

Define the key steps a user takes to experience a product's real value

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Hypothesis Statement

Put your assumptions in context of your product to craft testable hypotheses

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Job Stories

Frame your product as something customers would 'hire' to complete a 'job'

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Mood Board

Capture the feel of an idea from the gut

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Personality Sliders

Position the attitude and style of your brand

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Problem Statement

Describe current conditions and the gap between now and then

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Product Box

Imagine how your idea will be packaged

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Prototype Persona

Craft specific archetypical profiles of who you are designing for and why

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Storyboarding

Expand an idea with context to better understand, communicate, and agree on it

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Top Audiences

Determine your most impactful audiences

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Top Brand Values

Discover and rank your core values

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Value Proposition Statement

Summarize why a customer would choose your product or service

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Behavior Focus Mapping

Identify golden behaviors for habit change

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Behavior Scoring

Select the behavior you want your users to do

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How Might We Experiment

Turn challenges into testable questions

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Humanize Design Goals

Integrate ethical values into business-driven design goals

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Persuasive Driver Selection

Select the main persuasive drivers of your project

Important for this playbook

These exercises help transition from broad exploration of the problem space to focused understanding. They invite you to sift through your gathered data, decipher patterns, and discern the crux of the user challenges encountered.

In this phase, we shift from empathizing to synthesizing our findings into actionable insight by employing analytical, linear thinking to distill user insights into a clearly articulated problem statement. This is not about framing your problem as a business objective; rather, it’s about embracing the user’s standpoint.

Translate your user’s voice into a clear, guiding problem statement that illuminates the path forward. Dive in and embrace the journey from empathy to problem definition – a journey that brings clarity, focus, and user-centricity to your problem-solving process.

These workshop exercises are part of the Workshop Patterns printed card deck.

A collection of workshop exercises that will help you ditch dull meetings and facilitate with confidence. It will help you master the design process and have more productive time with your team. The card deck will be ready for purchase in the end of 2025 and is now undergoing rigorous testing.

Reserve your deck!

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