Library Demo: Tools
• Design takes practice. The more you use your creative muscles, the stronger they become. Whether you’re just beginning or looking for a workout, you can adapt these tools for whatever challenge you’re working on.
Featured Collections
Our curated collections pull together tools & other resources to help you exercise essential design skills
All Tools
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Tools in Translation
Our resources are used around the world and many have been translated into other languages.
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Chat About Chat
Better understand your relationships and conversations through perspective-shifting sessions with…
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An Other Point of View
Use AI to sharpen your observation skills and see differently.
Emerging Tech
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The Wallet Project & Gift-Giving Project
A fast-paced introduction to the design process.
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Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge
Practice prototyping & testing with this activity for beginners in design.
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Articles of Serendipity
Expand your frame of thinking by using AI as a tool to uncover unexpected interests and ideas.
Emerging Tech
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"How Might We" Questions
Amp up the good, explore the opposite, take it to an extreme—how to use questions to provoke…
Systems Design
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Blind Contour Bookend
Useful anytime you’re feeling deflated about the quality of your work or you’ve just caught…
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Stoke Deck
Boost energy, foster collaboration or ignite creativity.
Educators
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The Design Abilities Workshop
An introduction to 8 abilities, including a 2.5 hour design challenge workshop paired with some fun…
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Portrait of a Descendant: Futures Thinking for K12
Imagine a descendant many generations ahead and cultivate empathy for the future.
Futures
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Strategy+Design: An Integrative Design Exploration
From describing the problem and change you want to create to listing potential interventions, this…
Systems Design
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Systems+Design: An Integrative Design Exploration
Articulate your objectives and consider where you may have leverage to make the change you seek.
Systems Design
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Map the Problem Space
Identify all the opportunities for design interventions across data, tech, product, experience,…
Futures
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Liberatory Design
Mindsets and modes to support your practice of designing for equity.
Equity
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Idea Expedition
Explore how-might-we questions, brainstorm, identify ideas with potential, and flesh out your…
Professionals
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Human Centered Design: An Integrative Design Exploration
Consider how you already exhibit behaviors, and where you might employ them more.
Systems Design
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Getting Unstuck
A self-paced, two-hour sojourn that will have you humming again.
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Experiment Expedition
This guided journey will help you storyboard, build your prototype, capture data, and make sense…
Professionals
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Ethnography Expedition
Outline the specific steps for your project: field research, unpack learnings, develop insights,…
Professionals