designercise Ideation Toolkit  

Designercise is an active ideation toolkit for professional play, designed to increase flexible, agile, divergent and creative thinking through a series of short productive disruptions into everyday thinking. Based on a unique combination of cognitive sciences and design thinking techniques, Designercise is a set of exercises that helps bust through brain ruts that inhibit creative problem solving. With 3 warm up activities and 20 quick exercises that take 10-15 minutes each, Designercise creates clear gamified experiences that break down and expose cognitive biases, allowing groups to power past mental blocks. All the Designercise activities help to engage players to positively disrupt their ordinary thinking patterns and uncover their hidden creative genius!

THE DESIGNERCISE FAMILY

There are 4 smaller kits to compliment the Full Deluxe kit. The kits are themed around exercises that enhance: storytelling, design thinking, improvisation, and flexible thinking skills. Designercise creates ideation in action as each kit helps facilitators to create a high energy environment for collaboration and creative problem solving.

Each small kit includes a range of games and are perfect for educational and professional settings, a must-have for any facilitators toolkit. Each kit contains:

- 4 decks of cards (20 cards in each deck)

- Instructions on how to play 5 base games and 1 warm up

The sets are kids kid, design thinking,  improvisation, felxable thinking and storytelling.  

The Full Deluxe Designercise Ideation Toolkit includes 20 productivity boosting activities, which take 10-15 minutes each, and 3 team building warm ups. 

Inside the full DIY kit you get

- 11 decks of cards (20 cards in each deck),

- 2 roulette spinning wheels,

- 1 spinner top, and

- 1 full ‘how to play’ pack, which includes lots of brain gains and facilitation tips!

Designercise is unlike any other professional play-based brain-activator on the market (actually, we don't know of any others)!

WHO IS DESIGNERCISE FOR?

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 also created Desigerncise to be the kind of thing that groups of people can bust out over their lunch breaks at work, challenging colleagues to come up with the most wacky and wonderful ideas!

Perfect for educational and professional settings, and a must-have for any facilitator, Designercise is unlike any other professional play-based brain-activator on the market. (Actually, we don't know of any others! Correct us if we are wrong!).

Its designed to help you buts through reductive and rigid thinking and level up your creative problem solving skills!

THE designercise EXERCISES

Designercise includes 20 core exercises. We've designed each one to enhance storytelling, design thinking, improvisation and flexible thinking skills, while also creating a high energy environment for collaboration and creative problem solving.

The activities were inspired by a range of common cognitive biases and creative thinking inhibitors. We noticed that the more aware of them we were, the more empowered we were to move beyond them and think of innovative ideas and solutions. Combining these with tried and tested methods for unleashing creative thinking through ideation techniques and gamified environments, we created a range of fun, easy to play, mental interventions that rapidly bust through creative barriers.