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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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3-12-3 Brainstorm

Force fast and unprompted thinking as participants collect, combine, and present

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Bad Idea Brainstorming

Produce the silliest, craziest, and most unethical ideas and turn them good

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Competitor Demos

Find companies solving similar challenges to find new ways to solve your own

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Crazy Eights

Sketch eight distinct ideas in eight minutes

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Design Charrette

Collaboratively sketch designs to explore ideas across disciplines

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Figure Storming

Imagine how a famous character, fictional or real, would tackle a problem

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Forced Analogy

Compare your current situation to an unrelated one

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How Might We

Reframe insights and pain points into a solvable question

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Mash-up

Combine two or more items to explore fruitful and unexpected connections

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Mind Mapping

Let ideas flow along the path of least resistance through free association

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Perfection Game

Discover and recognize strengths and define effective improvement actions

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Powers of Ten

Reframe a challenge through frames of greater magnitudes

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Reverse Brainstorming

Prompt your group to think of problems rather than solutions

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Round Robin

Pass an idea from person to person to grow and change it in unexpected ways

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SCAMPER

Analyze current and existing problems through seven different lenses

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Storyboarding

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

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The Anti-Problem

Solve the opposite of the real problem

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Yes, And! Brainstorm

Disrupt negative thinking and build on each others' ideas

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Bad-to-Brilliant

Create silly, impractical, and unethical ideas to turn them around for good

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Behavioral How Might We

Reframe insights and pain points into a solvable question through a behavioral lense

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Experiment Ideation

Use proven experiment patterns to reliably test ideas reliably and consistently

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Flip it Over

Solve the opposite of the real problem behaviorally

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Forced Fit

Spawn unconventional ideas using patterns not immediately relevant

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Habit Change Modeling

Modify existing habits by adding new routines and keeping the cues and rewards

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Habit Stacking

Integrate new user habits by associating them with existing ones

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Hook Mapping

Incite habitual product use by constructing habit loops

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Ideas first, Patterns later

Let creativity lead by prioritizing own ideas over psychological insights

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Painkillers and Vitamins

Identify and develop behavioral approaches to counteract barriers and boost enablers

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Reimagine Business Building Blocks

Reinvent and adapt key components of business models

Important for this playbook

The ideation exercises are designed to cultivate a flourishing flow of fresh ideas, and to refine and develop the best among them into actionable plans.

Ideation, the process of generating a wide range of ideas, is only effective when it revolves around a problem that truly demands a solution. These ideation exercises all assume that you’ve already unearthed such a problem, one that’s meaningful and worth solving.

Ideation exercises help bridge diverse perspectives and encouraging out-of-the-box thinking. By creating a collaborative environment that is safe and judgement-free, you can easier nurture creativity and allow for the exploration of every idea, no matter how outlandish it may initially seem. For optimal results, ensure focus on actual user problems rather than abstract concepts or business-driven objectives.

The energy and dynamism of ideation workshops make them an exciting and fun experience. Participants often leave these workshops invigorated, looking forward to the next one, and excited about the next steps. However, if used right, ideation workshop exercises can be the stepping stone toward viable, user-centric solutions that align with the needs, goals, and expectations of your users.

By generating a wealth of ideas, these workshops bring you one step closer to discovering innovative solutions.

These exercises will push your thinking to its limits and uncover the vast potential of your creative mind.

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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