In a brain-pick activity, participants interview people who share a common experience or background. (These people are called informants.) Participants interact with these informants—and with each other—to collect and organize useful information.
This activity uses people who have undergone major organizational changes. Participants interview them to come up with a list of guidelines for coping with change.
A fun, physical activity designed to help a group work on communication, problem solving, to understand roles of leader and follower within the group.
Polarities live as interdependent pairs that need each other to exist, for example inhaling & exhaling. One pole is not valued as better than the other. Polarities have an enduring quality, they are unavoidable and unsolvable.
Polarities live everywhere from our internal dialogue to external patterns of relating in society and within organizations. Overfocus on any one pole leads to the breakdown of the system as a whole.
A fun and reliable technique for scoring many ideas, with instant visual results. Participants rate statements by dropping tokens in Feedback Frames in a range of slots that are hidden by a cover, with results later revealed as a visual graph of opinions. This simple in-person analog tool uses secret score voting to recognize nuanced gradients of agreement towards consensus and avoid traditional voting problems such as groupthink and vote-splitting, which are common in sticker dot voting.
The empathy map allows you to generate a deeper understanding of one’s motivations and why.
A Morphological chart is a method that splits a product/solution into smaller chunks that can then be analyzed and ideated for independently. Afterwards those ideas can be mixed and matched to develop different solutions.
To be used after having a clear overview of the design problem and at the beginning of the ideation phase.
A concept sketch is a fast freehand drawing.
To be used in Ideation phase.
The group tells made-up fortunes inspired by a random gif
A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.
The game enables participants to get to know each other and have fun at the same time. Also since it takes a lot of moving it can be used as an energiser too.
A funny way to get to know each other especially in groups of children or teenagers.