Process

At its core, Agile is about delivering value, getting feedback, and repeating the process as quickly as possible. In most Agile…

The S.P.I.D.R acronym for User Story splitting recharged (++)

When it comes to defining user stories, I always give the cake examples to the teams I work it.

Working from a prioritized backlog of small user stories allows a team to get early value and frequent, high-quality feedback. Learn how to split any story.

IDEO U is an online school where leaders can unlock their creative potential and build their problem-solving skills.

The 18F Methods are a guide to putting human-centered design into practice.

App to sketch out a business model canvas

Understand similarities and differences among empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints.

Like most large enterprises, IBM’s success relies heavily on teams spread all around the globe. More important, their success relies on the ability of these distributed to effectively collaborate as well as they would in person.

The founders and designers we work with in the Google Ventures portfolio have a lot of important questions. Is there a market for my…

Service-blueprinting workshops require thoughtful planning and hands-on facilitation.

What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future.

A simple voting exercise to identify a group's collective priorities.

You know when a meeting turns into a complete waste of time? Maybe you’re trying to come up with ideas, or make a decision. Before anyone…

flowcharts, wireframes, sticky notes, mind maps

Forget trust falls and ropes courses. These are activities for building your team's Get $#!τ Done muscle and working better together.

Futurespectives, like Retrospectives, look back at the past… from the future! I find them very useful when there isn’t much to retrospect on: at the start of a project or initiative. I&…

An intro to Design Sprints – from getting started to getting successful.

Welcome! We're super excited you are interested in joining one of our weekly Design Critiques. Critiques happen every Wednesday at 9:30am, and every Friday at 2pm.

This is a resource for anyone who wants to do things more creatively and collaboratively in their team or organization. It’s a collection of methods and activities, based on Hyper Island’s methodology, that you can start using today.

Inspire yourself in the list of activities and figure out what should you do, ask or make to get quickly to learn, prototype and tests with users that will have the biggest impact.