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Workshop Exercises Playbook

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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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Job Stories

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

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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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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.

Run better workshops with Learning Loop card decks.

Every card deck includes workshop patterns, so your team can put the methods to work in your next session.

Running behavioral design workshops? The Persuasive Patterns Workshop Playbook (PDF) shows you how to design and run them.

Browse the card decks