Overview
Challenge your mindset
Early in her career, Leyla became frustrated by how often she heard people claim they weren’t creative—and by the fact that many of the world’s complex social and environmental problems persist because people are not willing to think creatively about them. Deeply engaged in researching cognitive science, bias and the cognitive habits that limit she developed Designercise to challenge people to think about problems and biases in different ways.
With more than 20 boredom-busting brain exercises, the Designercise active ideation toolkit helps develop critical and flexible thinking skills, encourages rapid ideation and offers a fun mental workout to help brighten up your grey matter and inspire creativity.
Successfully funded by a Kickstarter in August 2015, a limited edition run of the full toolkit in a delightful suitcase and smaller thematic kits were produced and sent to the funders. Designercise is now available as downloadable DIY kits to the wider community.
Contents
What’s inside this book?
A must-have for any facilitator’s toolkit, this Delux kit includes the whole Designercise family, including five mini kits with a range of games perfect for both educational and professional settings
Each one of the first four are themed around a specific area of creative skill-building: storytelling, design thinking, improvisation, and flexible thinking. Together, they support ideation in action, helping facilitators create high-energy environments that foster collaboration and creative problem-solving.
The Designercise Kids Kit is the fifth theme included in this collection. Designed to help younger people think differently through a series of fun, age-appropriate ideation games, it offers the perfect entry point to explore empathy, design research, innovative thinking and the role of design in everyday life.
What you get
- 20 productivity boosting exercises (each takes 10-15 minutes to play)
- 3 team building warm ups
- 11 decks of play cards (20 cards in each deck)
- 2 roulette spinning wheels
- 1 spinner
- 22 'How to Play’ cards
- BONUS: Free kids kit (with age-appropriate content)
