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Introduce a large group to each other

Go for quantity in your idea generation with a wide focus on your challenge

Rapidly engage everyone in generating ideas and increase your understanding of the present context when the team is unsure how to move from idea to concept.

Use this template to plan your whole year for 2023

2x2’s provides a visual way for teams to build shared understanding and make collective decisions for moving ideas forward.

Creating entrepreneurial organizations that innovate organically empowering their ecosystem

Get to the root of any problem

6 people - 3 ideas - 5 minutes will give you 108 ideas built on each other

Visualize the relationship between your application and AWS.

Reconsidering a problem statement by broadening or narrowing focus

This toolkit provides all the basic exercises that are necessary to run a user-centered workshop or an ideation session.

Learn more about your client’s customers and discover core resolutions.

A graphic technique for sorting items according to similarity

When the team is inundated with challenges and struggling to prioritize them.

A way of using different perspectives to help generate fresh ideas

Visualize your major projects and tasks for the year

A refined model of a new idea that emphasizes the visual styling

Understand how your stakeholders would react in a given scenario.

Understand which of your assumptions needs a validating before you move forward with your project.

A brainstorm method tailored for async collaboration

Use this meeting template to evaluate the style and effectiveness of your team meetings. Get feedback on if meetings should be synchronous or asynchronous.

Create alignment and build relationships for a new project asynchronously

Gather feedback on a recent project and ideas for your next one

Use this template to define audience preferences, motivations, and goals for an e-learning module. Build stakeholder alignment and create audience personas.

Come together to send the best of wishes

Prepare for a sprint or strategic planning

Map out each stage of a video or service design so you can visualize the story you're trying to tell.

Find and address what's stifling your team's momentum.

Bring agile methods and visual collaboration to your next big room OKR planning session to align cross-functional teams.

Plan and identify dependencies for ultimate transparency.

Foster open communication and mutual understanding of the state of things.

Brainstorm and prioritize concepts as a team.

Help facilitate the process of designing a brand for a client remotely.

Define the personality of your brand and align your team before redesigning your visual brand assets

An activity in which people express ideal solutions using symbolic elements

This is a mental modeling technique for confronting problems more insightfully.

A way of ranking items in order of importance using a target diagram.

Use this template in the early stages of a new business venture

Define important aspects of a new business venture.

Diagram step-by-step actions and inputs in a business process.

Prepare your project for Go-Live

A game in which people use artificial money to express trade-off decisions

Collaborate with your team to plan and execute campaigns

Celebratory templates are a bunch of murals which helps you to engage in a creative way

Align teams and stakeholders to start product development with total buy-in.

Identify the obstacles that most impact your ability to perform your work.

Mapping impacts of the project on key audiences

Creating a shared understanding of the change

Coordinating change activities across the project life-cycle

This template will help you to get to know each team member better and creates a more relaxed atmosphere due to its gamification character.

Align on why a task is important and how you will execute

The Class Lecture Toolkit contains the building blocks you need to structure your murals for any class lecture — customizable to fit your teaching style.

Plan and build your content, then invite your audience and interact with them in new ways.

Create or iterate your learning experiences collaboratively using a non-linear process for analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Taking notes becomes a team sport. Use this template to develop a dialogue where you document and synthesize what you hear in lecture in a new and engaging way.

Brainstorm, build, and deliver an engaging presentation.

Efficient and productive prototyping with the whole team.

A way of depicting the relationships between various concepts

A presentation format illustrating the main points of a new idea

Help your team have great brainstorms that encourage fresh thinking through simple guidelines and an open and collaborative environment.

Gather and analyze insights about consumer trends and transform them into business opportunities.

An approach to interviewing and observing people in their own environment

Design conversations skillfully and intentionally, by taking a fresh approach to applying the tools of user experience design and design thinking.

Get your students prepared to collaborate in MURAL before your first class while also getting to know them and their expectations for your course.

Set up a great sense of community and learning environment with your students.

A mock news article describing the successful future of a new idea.

Want to deliver a presentation your audience will remember? Leverage the power of emotion to make your message stick long after the presentation is over.

Use this template to ideate solutions to an agreed-on problem to solve. Brainstorm 8 solutions in 8 minutes.

Create alignment and track responsibilities for a project

A format for sparking new ideas at the intersections of distinct categories

This template prompts you to choose a situation and consider it six different ways. Warm up your creativity muscles and design something new.

Question, reflect, and reason your way through an evaluation from your perspective, someone else’s, and why something was designed this way in the first place

When we are launching a new project and want to explore potential strategies and build capacity to respond quickly to future challenges.

Create a central space for designers to present their current solution to a project; then express concerns or ask specific questions about it.

Frameworks for keeping everyone on the same page while effectively managing risk.

A framework for designing the culture of organizations and teams. Use this to map the current culture, design the future state, and evolve workplace culture.

Identify the root cause(s) of the problem you're trying to solve.

Design curriculum aligned with learning outcomes and determine course assessment criteria and resources needed to support the curriculum development process.

Create a shared understanding of customer aspirations and priorities to identify opportunities and determine next steps.

Unite customer and employee experiences through this journey map to identify and prioritize areas of focus.

In this activity, you will ground yourself and your team in the needs of the people you are creating for through careful observation.

Think critically about your users' customer needs, motivations, and obstacles by illustrating a key scenario or process from start to finish.

Inspect progress and keep on track toward your sprint goal.

Keep ahead of project roadblocks and track team progress towards your sprint goal with a daily scrum.

Present data in a visually engaging way

Visualize and annotate how data flows within an information system or process.

Solve challenges, develop and evaluate solutions, and map execution steps on your next project or during your next team meeting.

Evaluate outcomes and speed up decision making.

Come together for a festive game to break the ice and warm everyone up!

Create shared understanding, insight, and motivation to improve the lives of customers.

See eye to eye on a project to feel confident

Demo new applications and functions to your team. Walk through workflows for your customers and explain how to complete a process step-by-step.

Promote your most recent company news

Evaluate whether your design or solution is adding value.

D4D Method is a set of strategies that describe how we innovate at Intuit. Create awesome solutions that customers, employees, and partners will love.

Create shared understanding, run experiments and test solutions to creatively solve customer problems and deliver customer delight!

Scale design within your organization.

Whether you’re working at a startup or a large organization, developing the right product or service for your customer is key to your success.

Run your own remote design sprint.

Ideate and build off teammates' ideas to come up with creative solutions to a problem or design challenge.

Use it to choose your project’s destination, plan the best route to get there.

Plan and facilitate design thinking workshops

Align product to user value, synthesize research insights and implement experiences

A visual representation of the design and innovation process

Generate collaborative feedback for course development

When you need to get a higher-altitude perspective of your entire portfolio of projects to understand where to focus.

Acknowledge the connections within your team and align on emotional experience

Understand your audience's motivation by graphing their key facets.

Develop a deep, shared understanding and empathy for other people

Develop a deep, shared understanding and empathy for your users.

Come together to send the best of wishes

Design an event worth attending.

Map out each aspect of your next event to rest assured that all your bases are covered.

Map the expectations your team has for each of its members to gain clarity around who is responsible for different aspects of a project.

A way of mapping a person's journey through a set of circumstances or tasks

Focus on a key question or assumption and design an experiment that’s quick, cheap, and generative so you learn about users and evolve your idea

Storyboards are a great way for team members to visually show or brainstorm current vs. future experiences through sketches.

Use this check-in template to get your team's mood and understand more about them. Learn how they're feeling, their preferred meeting style, more!

Define what you hope to learn from your project ahead of time so you can stay on track as you plan and design.

Understand and size the market for your product.

Guide prioritization decisions with two tried and true frameworks: MoSCoW and RICE

Organize your feedback so that you improve your product or service according to customer needs.

Visualize multiple potential causes of a problem, not just the most obvious one.

Capture all configuration items and integrations needed for a solution through a virtual workshop.

Create clarity and engagement in your design process, meetings, and workshops.

An approach to conducting field research in an unobtrusive manner

Absorb all the details from your calls and meetings.

Capture the key rational and emotional forces pushing an organization towards implementing a change.

Visualize the future you hope to create.

Uncover ways the team can improve by understanding their shared patterns of interaction.

Celebrate someone or an achievement

Push yourself to think outside the box in this exhaustive brainstorming exercise.

Creative message for the health of a colleague

Generate lots of ideas before focusing on one great idea.

Create alignment and track responsibilities for a class project.

Collect well wishes in one place

Brighten up someone's day by visualising thoughts

Use this template to audit your designs based on ten rules of thumb

Design your project with clarity and flexibility.

Reflect and connect on your team’s project expectations.

Use the 'how might we' brainstorming method within a grid to spark new thinking

Reference existing ideas or solutions and remix them to solve your problems.

Consider how a hybrid workplace might work

Define your team's common beliefs and working hours

Reflect on what you liked and what you can do to improve going forward

A fast, constructive way to collect constructive feedback

Reflect on what you liked and what you can do to improve going forward

A toolkit to help your team tackle their toughest problems with creativity and collaboration.

Familiarize your team with Mural and one another with the Icebreaker Villa template.

Encourage collaboration and equal participation in hybrid teams

Determine your best ideas by ranking their feasibility and impact.

Generate as many ideas as possible for a given challenge

A fun way to help the team bond by thinking about which animal represents each person best.

Engage in a quick, engaging, and insightful dialogue about the future.

Create a packaged tour for your dream destination.

Create and deliver an engaging sales presentation

A quad chart for plotting items by relative importance and difficulty

Let's Improvise a Vision rather than go through a long protracted process. Use this template to give your team a vision that inspires and aligns them.

A visual workspace to find new possibilities and unlock your potential in any situation.

A technique for gathering information through direct dialogue

Get your team up to speed on Agile and Scrum

Turn learning and reviewing into a game to make studying or training sessions fun.

This template is a design tool to deconstruct the job that customers are trying to get done, identify opportunities for improvement, and map a new experience.

Define which change is the most important to make, and the steps you need to take to get there

An activity that invites people to record personal experiences

Track and easily see your team's progress

Display appreciation towards colleagues and teams

Use this checklist and template to implement a successful hybrid strategy.

Frame your team's work as a business problem to solve (rather than a solution to implement), by dissecting into its core assumptions.

Develop your business model by focusing on competitive advantages.

Bring structure to agendaless meetings

Use this template to source a partner/service/product, set up a agile product development team, assess an existing partnership, and manage your partnership.

Use this powerful method to design the best learning experiences you can imagine.

Liberating Structures offer you a set of approaches you can use to address almost any challenge.

Solve problems or discuss challenges fast, and find quick direction

Solve your own challenges by looking to existing ideas for inspiration. Gather and discuss great case studies, then vote for the most relevant solutions.

Prototype your future workspace

Gain a deeper understanding about the environment your business is working in.

Learn about your extreme user's mindset and gain insights about their struggles.

Understand the interactions, intentions and perceptions of your users when they interact in your service.

Gain a deeper understanding about your users' insights and what they want to accomplish.

Determine the best way to involve each project stakeholder.

Keep your project human-centered by mapping the project stakeholders both inside and outside your organization.

Create your first collaborative meeting space with MURAL

Use this mural to keep your meetings focused, document agendas, track decisions, and detail action items

Storyboards are a great way for team members to visually show or brainstorm current vs. future experiences through sketches.

A toolkit for rapid collaboration, ideation, and problem-solving across teams.

Organize your ideas into a structured diagram to see an overview of the concept, understand its complexities and connections, and make decisions effectively.

Brainstorm big ideas, identify new patterns, and quickly organize your thoughts.

Create your board by adding images, links, sticky notes, etc.

Show complexity and details of an enterprise service or system based on data collected from research on users and services

Collaborate with your customer champion to attain overall alignment.

Create more impactful engagements with your customers

Align on rapid experiment intentions and discuss points of view

Map stakeholders and teams to identify the people involved in the success of a project and ensure healthy cross-team collaboration

Objectives and key results (OKRs) is a goal-setting methodology used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results.

Plan your activities for the Quarter and how to measure success

Define OKRs with your team so you can stay aligned throughout every step of your project.

A healthy competition in the form of an obstacle run to warm-up the atmosphere!

Come together to send the best of wishes for the future.

Welcome remote workers in a fun way

Welcome remote workers in a fun way

Welcome remote workers in a fun way

Enhance working relationships through problem solving.

Keep important information about your project in one place.

A collaborative visual process for better product discovery and prioritization.

Clearly outline group hierarchies and reporting structures.

Plan and align with all Agile Release Train collaborators.

Align multiple teams on the same goals, outputs, and releases with program increment planning.

Give and receive peer feedback in a pinboard format from Falmouth. Facilitate student collaboration and share work easily with this template.

Create a portrait of your key stakeholders' mindset, needs and goals.

A summary of the mindset, needs, and goals held by key stakeholders

Build a persona to further understand and develop empathy for your end users.

Go into the next year with confidence

Use this template to curate your own facilitator development plan. Explore your strengths, then dive into opportunities around growing from your weaknesses!

Visualize your aspirations, future goals, and missions

Understand who you're designing or solving a problem for by defining primary and secondary personas.

Understand growth flywheels and achieve liquidity and defensibility

Scan the ecosystem and transform the value chain

Design scalable experiences with solid business models

Share learnings with stakeholders

The pre-mortem helps teams identify ways to troubleshoot project roadblocks and failures before they happen.

Get everyone on the same page before your meeting or workshop begins.

Make ideas tangible with a concept poster.

Conduct “offsite” workshops to help executives prioritize without losing the collaborative magic that comes from face-to-face workshops!

Resolve differing opinions about what to do next

Control your to-do list by ranking each item using a bullseye

Dialogue emerging trends with your colleagues.

Document and discuss the group’s observations about a problem’s causes and effects, then select a few key areas to address as a group.

Transform problems into compelling questions that invites exploration

Quickly prioritize the top opportunities your team should tackle next

Do a silent brainstorm and come up with genuinely useful ideas

Prioritize and align a team around the same understanding of a problem.

Use this problem tree analysis template to reveal concerns, discern causes from symptoms, and reframe problem statements.

Diagram the steps and inputs of a business process to identify opportunities for improvement.

Describe a process step by step across roles and systems

Assess your product against competing products.

Reduce uncertainty around a problem to make sure the right product gets built for the right audience.

Plan a product launch with a checklist of activities and tasks applicable to most products.

Use this series of templates to navigate milestones in the product management process.

The product requirements document (PRD) is the single source of truth for the key aspects of your product.

Use this template to create a roadmap for quarterly goals. Create a goal and break out teams to identify objectives to be measured by key results.

Align on expectations for your project and get to know your teammates.

Project North Star is a tool designed to help teams align on a project's goals, roles, target audience, and other essential details.

Begin a new project with a clear head

Thoughtfully analyze a recent project for better future outcomes

Evaluate the pros and cons, or the positives and negatives, to evaluate tradeoffs and improve decision-making.

Collect feedback and iterate on your solution.

When you need to prepare a robust plan for an event or initiative. Clarify how your team can organize themselves to adapt creatively and scale up for success.

Reflect on your last Quarter and plan for the future.

Reach your vision and achieve your goals every quarter.

A short document summarizing the key elements of a proposed solution

Gather a team and reflect on work you’ve done together

Customize your workshop with a captivating mural

Explore the Return on Investment (ROI) for your product or service.

Learn what works and what doesn't by testing solutions quickly.

Represent ideas and organize them into a visual diagram, see a broad overview of relationships and discover hidden complexities.

Capture insights and constructive critiques about your idea.

Focus on feasibility and impact to refine your idea.

Use this template to cover the bases when you are kicking off an all-hands meeting

Use as your testing guide and a consolidated place for observers to capture notes and feedback during the testing session.

Document your research findings and transform them into actionable insights

Brainstorm and organize your ideas for an academic research paper

Visualize findings to inform next steps

Gather user feedback about your solution or learn more about a problem.

Align product teams on where they are and where they need to go. Includes customizable activities and facilitator instructions for productive working sessions.

Continuously update your resume and brainstorm cover letter ideas to set you up for success in your job search and career journey.

Reflect on your current way of working, analyze your actions and develop a more effective strategy.

Prioritize the team's needs and scale feedback to leaders

Determine which ideas have the highest probability of success.

Reflect on and re-evaluate your team meetings and processes to create more space for what matters.

Understand your customers' experience at every stage and plan for future development.

Plan your quarter and keep all the information in one place

Understand a problem or situation and identify opportunities for improvement.

Build a model of a new idea that approximates its appearance and behavior

An engaging activity where people build on each other’s ideas

By using this template to create your own SIPOC, or Suppliers Inputs Process Outputs Customers, diagram, you can begin to identify key elements of your process.

Analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with your project.

Use this template to pause and reflect on work in progress. A sailboat metaphor is used for the journey of completing a project from start to finish.

Make better decisions in each stage of development by ensuring your design is grounded in the context of your user's real world situations.

Use this framework to collaborate on how an idea will work as a functional system.

Use this template as your planner to keep track of due dates, assignments, and meetings.

A fun, engaging way to kick off any meeting

Visualize and analyze a process or workflow

Understand the moving parts of your service

Get to know your remote teammates by taking a peek into their working world.

Kick off your meeting or workshop with a fun, visual icebreaker.

Generate ideas about a wide range of problems. This brainstorming template is ideal for incorporating different learning styles and personality types.

A UML diagram is an approach to modeling and documenting software or business process workflows.

Design a visual blueprint of a website or an app to plan the ideal structure and hierarchy.

Kick your meeting off with a fun icebreaker exercise.

All in one template to plan out your social mission and social business for social impact.

Plan, align, and document an upcoming sprint with your team.

Run a sprint retrospective, analyze how things have been done in your team, and find ways to improve

Use this sprint review template to run a sprint review with an agenda, space for feedback, and more. Celebrate accomplishments and get feedback after a sprint.

Diagram the network of people who have a stake in a given system

Identify stakeholders and strategize the level of involvement that each stakeholder may have.

Identify what your team wants to stop, start, and continue doing

A series of templates to help product managers launch a startup

An approach to phrasing problem statements that invites broad exploration

Use the Sticky Bio template to learn about and connect over your team's life experiences. Create a bio in 10 sticky notes and share it with your team.

Use this template to design a storyboard of the student learning journey within 90 minutes. Quickly design a curriculum based on six different learning types.

An exercise using visuals to outline the steps of a process

This exercise helps you warm up your storytelling muscles, critique and improve to become a better co-creator. Decide, write, and build storytelling skills.

A fun warm-up exercise from improv theater to help your team listen, build on each other’s ideas, and let go while co-creating.

Define the components of a new or existing strategy.

Develop strategies for a wide range of subjects with this canvas-based method – quickly and intuitively, alone or in a team, for business and beyond.

Develop strategies for a wide range of subjects with this canvas-based method – quickly and intuitively, alone or in a team, for business and beyond.

Visualize goals for different areas and how they are interconnected

Visually bring creativity into research and presenting.

Prepare for exams with classmates or solo with this Study Guide template. The template provides different study techniques to master main concepts.

Develop a hunch into an idea you can pitch and build on.

Visualize roles and responsibilities for important projects so no one feels underwater.

Plan your next course with fun and freedom while capturing inspiration and insights as you go. Collaborate and share with your teaching team and students.

A survey for quantifying feedback from assessments of usability

Teach your team the Scrum framework with this short exercise.

Organize your class into teams and coordinate group work within a single mural using breakout areas.

Identify each person’s strengths to best align your team's culture.

Start building a strong team at project kick-off by aligning on goals and preferred ways of working.

Are you aligned around your strategy? Experience the value of getting your team on the same page.

Connect with your team and leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite book and what can be learned from it.

Facilitate class breakout groups for team projects.

Have fun and really get to know your team

Align your team and resolve conflicts to work better together.

Communication is an integral part of strong teamwork, use this template when you want to establish ground rules for how your team works together.

Gather around and bring your favorite or local dish to the (digital) table

Create an open and honest dialogue within your team and define guidelines for giving feedback.

Assess how your team is doing so they can be effectively and appropriately managed.

Understand your past to inform your future

Get a new group comfortable working together before you jump straight into your next project

Share your working style with your team and set expectations.

Stay on top of your team's progress.

Ignite the team spirit by finding out about each other, from location to interests!

Track your Team's Emotions is a tool for design sprints that helps set expectations beforehand and track how teams feel during the sprint.

Designed for new, existing, and changing teams, the team working agreement canvas develops cohesion and camaraderie between team members.

Develop an engaging presentation to pitch your ideas

Co-create human centric IoT experiences

Run a Design Sprint workshop to kickstart an important innovation project or tackle a big problem. Created in collaboration with Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.

Discuss blockers, visualize priorities, and engage your team by using this template at regular intervals.

A test where people narrate their experience while performing a given task

Explore multiple solutions to a single hypothesis.

Create small drawings to visually explore your ideas.

Decide a topic to discuss and rank your ideas related to it. It could be movies, series, memes, food, whatever you want!

Make a list of all the tasks required to achieve your goals

Complete a retrospective with your team to reflect on what went well, what could be better, and what you can do to optimize performance

Discover the treasures in your process and chart your course for success

Organize trend research, develop sense-making skills, and gamify the future.

Create a Jeopardy-inspired trivia game about company history, research insights, or a random topic just for fun

Imagine the worst-case scenario associated with the way your team functions to question the status-quo and unlock value.

Use peer-to-peer coaching to discover everyday solutions and get advice immediately through a series of quick round-robin consultations.

March together while forming letters to have fun and collaborate

Take the first steps in your innovation journey by starting with the Understand phase.

Visually show the requirements and dependencies that inform the experience of your product.

Gain understanding by speaking with people who use your product or service

Gain a more complete understanding of your user's experience, to identify the user’s pain points and then opportunities for improvements along the journey.

Prioritize upcoming work by mapping releases to user value.

Assess your organization's activities based on value to customer and cost to the business.

Establish the right activities to create value for your customers to rapidly move them through the funnel and measure their progress.

Improve the flow of value through your delivery of products or services.

Present data visually and find logical relations

A short movie showing the attributes of a new concept in use

Invite individuals to events in a creative way.

Use this template to take a break, grab some coffee, share something you think your coworkers would enjoy, and—most importantly—have some fun!

Design a board that represents what your solution should and shouldn't be.

Align on your vision, mission, strategy and values.

Create a storyboard about a product or service idea.

A quick poll of collaborators to reveal preferences and opinions

A way of building empathy for people through firsthand experience

Visually communicate the stages of a project and team progress

Use this worksheet template to facilitate a conversation with your team about how you want to work and set team expectations.

Visualize your team's progress and learn from what went well and what could be improved each week.

Leverage leadership meetings to collaborate more and identify dependencies between teams.

Build a more organized week with this visual and flexible planner.

Once a week, complete a retrospective with your team to reflect on what went well, what could be better, and what you can do to make positive changes.

Use this template to share a little bit about yourself and get to know your team.

Surface essential needs across functional groups and teams in your organization that need to work well together.

An exercise in which people plot items according to personal significance

When the team needs to have a retrospective.

A festive gift exchange game to virtually capture the holiday magic for your teams, colleagues, clients, and friends.

Prevent rework and improve development output.

See the full mobile experience and catch changes early.

Bring colleagues together for a celebration

Break down your project into smaller tasks

Build empathy and identify the right support for your team.

Visualize all the actions and steps needed to complete a project or process.

Start with what you want to accomplish and work backwards to define the steps necessary to reach your goal.

Explore and collect your favorite facilitation elements.

Focus on the context and purpose of your workshop to maximize effectiveness.

The template will result in the co-creation of a team playbook for workshops and meetings.

Capture key decisions during a workshop, conference, or conversation — and keep everyone aligned on desired outcomes after the event.

Choose your building blocks to create your own structure.

Map the locations of anything around the world: where people on your team live, where they want to travel next, or where your customers are located.