The Top 10 Senior Design Method Toolkits Online
When looking for design methods and activities, it’s hard to remember all the toolkits that keep popping up. But there are a few that have stood the test of time.
These online repositories of design method playbooks and toolboxes are an excellent way to try out advanced design methods with your team.
Free Design Toolkit Libraries
I’ve been designing for over a decade, and this list contains my go-to method resources. As you get more senior, you will want to be more collaborative with your approaches, so I have included some facilitation-friendly toolkits, too.
And I purposely avoided the toolkits that everybody knows about to find you some deeper cuts from my practice.
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1. Method Library by This is Service Design Doing
2. Toolkit Navigator by OPSI
3. Service Design Tools by Oblo
4. Innovator’s Toolbox by Board of Innovation
5. Plays by Atlassian
6. Design Method Toolkit by Digital Society School
7. Hyper Island Toolbox
8. UX Methods
9. Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat.
10. Liberating Structures
Free Resources by the Fountain Institute
There you have it. The best design toolkits on the internet.
More Senior Designer Toolkits
Here are some more toolkits that didn’t make the above list. Check them out if you’ve already exhausted the top 11:
Design Kit by IDEO: https://www.designkit.org/methods.html
Design Thinking Exercises by ThoughBot: https://thoughtbot.com/playbook/validation/design-thinking-exercises
Guide to UXR by Paulina Barlik: http://guidetouxr.com/
Design Sprints Library by Google: https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/resources/overview
Mitre Innovation Toolkit: https://itk.mitre.org/toolkit/
Session Lab’s Library of Facilitation Techniques: https://www.sessionlab.com/library
Design Research Methods by Ivette Spradlin: https://designresearchmethods.com/tools/
Product Frameworks by Alex Pedicini: https://www.product-frameworks.com/index.html
Product Discovery Methods: https://pdmethods.com/
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