Designercise Ideation Toolkit

Developed in 2016, Designercise is an active ideation toolkit for professional play, designed to increase flexible, agile, divergent and creative thinking through a series of short productive activities. Based on a unique combination of cognitive sciences and creative thinking techniques, the Designercise exercises help bust through the thought processes that inhibit creative problem solving.

The main Delux kit has 20 games and three high-energy warm-up activities; there are also five small kits that focus on a specific skill such as design thinking or storytelling. All the Designercise activities create clear gamified experiences that allow the players to break down and expose cognitive biases, allow groups to power past mental blocks and develop new and creative ways to solve complex problems.

Designercise is designed to be highly adaptive for many different settings. There is a game for every group scenario: for boring office meetings, creative brainstorm sessions, and large group activities such as conferences and seminars (just to name a few). We even released a kids’ kit that has a range of fun creative thinking games for kids.

All the activities are inspired by a range of common cognitive biases and creative thinking inhibitors. We noticed that the more aware of them people are, the more empowered we are to move beyond them to think in innovative ways and find non-linear solutions to complex global problems.

Designercise is available as a print-and-play kit to reduce the ecological impacts of production and shipping.