Design Warm Up
30 minutes, weekly
Goal: Inspire creativity, build team collaboration, and develop new skills through focused design exercises at the start of each week.
Format
- 30 minute session per week
- Large or small groups (3-5 people)
- Facilitator for prompts and timing
Sample Prompts
Quick Exercises (10-15 min)
- Create an icon
- Redesign a UI
- Explore a new Figma feature
- Rapid wireframe exercise
Extended Projects (across sessions)
- Create a design system component
- Practice animation and microinteractions
- End-to-end UI flows
- Accessibility improvements
Collaborative Challenges
- Pair design exercises
- Team interface assembly
Process Guidelines
- Preparation
- Facilitator prepares the prompt and any resources
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The prompt is shared with the group at least 24 hours before
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Session Structure
- 5min: Prompt explanation
- 25min: Design time
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(Optional) Share-out and feedback
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Follow-up
- Archive exercises in shared spaces (Slack, Coda, etc)
- Specifically call out new techniques and skills
- Track skill development
How you know if it's effective
- Team participation and engagement
- Skill adoption and knowledge sharing
- Quality improvements