@David Newman Nice card - it looks swish. A micro-billboard for your high level of qualification and the east-west creative alchemy thing you've got going 😎 As it happens, when I was in Vietnam, everyone offered me their business cards. Europeans seem to prefer going straight for LinkedIn (in my experience).

@Ari Rahmati Thanks, they're just little flat stickers you can buy from Amazon, Temu, etc. They're programmed with the tap of a button on any decent NFC app. I thought it would be challenging, but it was cheap and easy! Airports don't like them, though, so they need to be kept in a blocking sleeve.

Hi Ruth, I find the Empathy Map is wonderful as a 'first step' exercise, and it's very time-efficient, but it doesn't go deep enough. Therefore, if I've got the time required, I facilitate the User Journey Map exercise, but plotting only the four quadrants of the Empathy Map along the way (think, feel, say & do). It's very helpful to have some solid user research insights to work with, too, so people aren't thumb-sucking. The Journey Map adds the 'time' variable to the Empathy Map and can reveal where there are gaps and opportunities in the user's experience to fill directly in the ideation phase.

Here's one of my favourite exercises to run with a team in a branding or team-building workshop: It typically becomes a workshop highlight + ice breaker + branding breakthrough exercise for my participants! Get people to answer questions like 'if you were a car brand, which one would you be?', etc... you can pick the themes. Get them to plot the reason why they chose their answers, before plotting their answers (brands) on the 12 Brand Archetypes wheel. Then you help them 'interpret' the brand wheels and have a discussion around the variety of answers. You can use this to coach people developing their personal brands, and it's easy to translate for facilitating company branding. It works well in-person and is somehow even better online in Miro or equiv. It has a team-building effect, and often leads to epiphanies and 'wow' moments that make the workshop memorable and useful! I use it instead of (hateful) personality test exercises for coaching and it's also an essential exercise for focusing executives around what needs to be discussed and created in more corporate branding scenarios... honestly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thanks @Jonathan Courtney - I just got back from facilitating a 2-day Design Thinking workshop in Mauritius (which was soo much fun). It's interesting to see how you approach this kind of workshop! I really appreciate you sharing this stuff.

I used this feature after an in-person workshop, digitising all the sticky notes for the handover pack. Client was blown away!