Rose, Bud, Thorn

A quick exercise designed to get you to take a step back from the detail to see what is working, what’s not working, and what you might wish to do next.
Stinky fish

Enable the sharing of concerns participants may have related to the overall theme of the workshop.
Starbursting

Starbursting is a type of brainstorming which focusses on generating questions. You can use it when developing ideas, projects, or policies.
SDA sunflower

An idea generation tool designed to help generate solutions to clearly defined problems and visualise them around the problem.
Rip + Mix

Encourages creativity and lateral thinking in developing solutions to problems.
Reframing canvas

An approach to identifying problems designed to help you think about them in different ways and thereby widen the range of possible solutions.
Problem framing

Help you focus on and define the problem you want to concentrate on during your service design journey.
Five Ws and H

A checklist to make sure that, as you develop a new project or idea, you consider a range of questions.
Fast idea generator

The fast idea generator prompts you to think up as many answers as you can by looking at an existing concept, problem or opportunity, and then, using prompts, compare what happens now with what would happen if you changed the rules.
Cultural web

A change management tool, which compares ‘as is’ with ‘ what we would like it to be’.