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Templates

Start with the working sheet, not a blank canvas.

Discovery Waypoint templates are practical facilitation artifacts: the board, canvas, or guide you can open before a session, then connect back to the method when you need the full recipe.

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Choose the kind of working surface you need.

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Decision shape

Framing & Alignment

  • Crazy 8s sheet

    Eight-cell ideation canvas.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Crazy 8s Ideation

  • Framework selection matrix

    Compare fit, complexity, and decision confidence.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Prioritization Framework Selection

  • Impact-effort matrix

    Quadrant board with decision tiers.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Impact vs Effort Prioritisation

  • LDJ board

    Pain, challenge, solution, and action lanes.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ Style)

  • North-star framing board

    Outcome, user progress, opportunities, constraints.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From North Star Opportunity Framing

  • Opportunity scoring sheet

    Criteria-based scorecard with rationale capture.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Co-creation Opportunity Prioritization

  • Pre-mortem board

    Failure causes, impact score, mitigation actions.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Pre-mortem / Risk Storming

  • Principles scorecard

    Template to test principle quality and actionability.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Experience Principles Workshop

  • Problem framing board

    Symptoms, root causes, impacts, and HMW lanes.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Problem Framing and How Might We

  • Usability test plan

    Objectives, participants, tasks, criteria, schedule.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Usability Test Plan Workshop (Lightweight)

Evidence shape

Research & Evidence

  • Assumption matrix

    Impact vs uncertainty canvas with test backlog area.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Assumption Mapping

  • Concept card template

    Audience, value, flow, assumptions, metrics.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Concept Poster / Concept Cards

  • Interview guide template

    Sectioned script with objective and probes.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Interview Discussion Guide Workshop

  • JTBD interview guide

    Question flow for trigger, alternatives, outcomes.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Jobs To Be Done Interview Sprint (Lightweight)

  • Observation capture sheet

    Behavior, context, pain, and opportunity columns.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Service Safari Observation

  • Persona hypothesis card

    Goals, pains, context, behaviors, confidence labels.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Persona Hypothesis Workshop

  • Service blueprint canvas

    Frontstage, backstage, support systems, and evidence lines.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Service Blueprinting

System shape

Mapping & Planning

  • Affinity board

    Column layout for notes, clusters, and insight headlines.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Affinity Mapping

  • Current-future map

    Two-column map with gaps and actions.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Current vs Future State Mapping

  • Journey map board

    Stages, touchpoints, pains, emotions, and opportunities.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Customer Journey Mapping

  • OST canvas

    Outcome, opportunities, solutions, and experiment lanes.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Opportunity Solution Tree (Lightweight)

  • Principle metric map

    Principle, behavior, metric, owner, cadence.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Design Principles to Metrics

  • Stakeholder map canvas

    Influence vs support matrix with action lane.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Stakeholder Mapping

  • Storyboard frame set

    8-12 panel storyboard template.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Storyboarding

  • VPC template

    Customer profile and value map with fit checkpoint.

    Helps produce a strong working surface quickly.

    From Value Proposition Canvas Workshop