At The Design Gym, we help build Future Ready teams that adapt and thrive amidst constant change. Below you will find some of our favorite, time-tested tools for doing just that. Use them on your own or share with your team and your organization. And if you get stuck, give us a shout.
20 of our favorite questions to help teams start building a foundation of adaptability and resiliency—the cornerstones of Future Ready Teams.
A simple template to spark conversation with your team and document why and how you work together. Revisit regularly for accuracy and relevance.
An 8-step template with key questions and tips to align your team on the essentials of any project.
55 strategic prompts to unlock business growth, revenue streams, and breakthrough innovation.
The set of tools in this Customer Discovery Toolkit are some of our favorites from 10+ years of helping organizations design and deliver better experiences for their customers and employees.
These 6 low-barrier, low-time and low-budget research methods can help you and your team get out of your office and get the insights you need.
Styled like a comic strip, this one-page facilitator’s guide is a great resource to keep handy for the next time an unexpected elephant in the room pops up.
Inspired by personal experiences, tactics we use in our facilitation trainings and couples dialogue flowcharts, we’ve created this survival guide for those stormy periods when you need to have a difficult conversation but are unsure how to.
Getting ready to kick-off a project? Get started on the right foot. We made this template to help you do just that.
When we run full Design Thinking Bootcamps, we cover the essential mindsets and skillsets of the 5 Phases of Design Thinking. This workbook includes all of them.
Whether you’re doing field research, synthesizing your findings, ideating or prototyping, these worksheets will help you get your thinking done visually and quickly, so you can share with your team.
Customizing a Design Sprint to fit your problem? Use this worksheet to help you define the problem you’re looking to solve, identify the people you want in the room and design your Sprint agenda.
To fuel fresh thinking, it’s good to start with easily applicable behavior changes. We made this ideation toolkit to help you cultivate creativity and generate better ideas.
We wanted to make it easy for anyone to think visually, anytime, anywhere. We’ve taken what we’ve learned over the years and created a sweet, sweet deck of large-format cards for you to play with.
Fresh air fuels the fire. If you’re in New York and hungry for inspiration, get out of your office and get some brain food with our D.I.Y inspiration field trip maps!
Interested in becoming more creative at work? Check out our blog for helpful tools, stories and advice on how to bring design thinking into your organization to help you build that culture of innovation and experimentation.
