Toolkit Collection
Fifty-one method collections from around the world, from design thinking through service design to open innovation. All freely available, sorted by purpose, each with one sentence on what is inside and who made it.
Innovation & ideas
Collections that lead from an open question to a workable idea.
100% Open Innovation Toolkit
Thirty tools in seven categories around open innovation: gather perspectives, generate ideas, bring people together, prototype solutions. From the London studio 100% Open.
100open.com75 Tools for Creative Thinking
Seventy-five tools across five themes, also available as a box and an app. By the Dutch studio Booreiland, for inspiration and orderly ideation.
75toolsforcreativethinking.comAdobe Kickbox
The kit for a two-day innovator programme: workshop outline, tools and cards as PDFs. Adobe uses it to give internal innovators room, time and budget; now open source.
kickbox.adobe.comBoard of Innovation
Around thirty templates, posters and canvases as free PDFs covering the whole innovation process, from strategy through prototype to test. By the Belgian agency of the same name.
boardofinnovation.comDIY Toolkit
Thirty tools with worksheets, short explainer videos and step-by-step guides covering the full arc of social innovation, from a clear goal to sustaining an initiative. By Nesta, designed by Quicksand and STBY.
diytoolkit.orgFrog Collective Action Toolkit
An 84-page PDF with 25 tools and templates so that groups can tackle problems in their neighbourhood, school or organisation together. By Frog, out of a project with Girl Effect and the Nike Foundation.
frogdesign.comInnovation Champions
Sixteen tools with step-by-step guides, videos and images around design thinking, cut for creative companies. By the Dentsu Aegis Network Innovation Council.
innovationchampions.com.auMethodKit
Thirty-eight card sets in several sizes and languages. Each card is one perspective on a subject, from web development to city planning, building an overview as you talk. By Ola Möller since 2012.
methodkit.comMozilla Open Innovation Toolkit
Twenty-five methods, each with purpose, outcome and a step-by-step guide, plus a blog and an FAQ. Built by Mozilla with its community to bring human-centred design into product work.
toolkit.mozilla.orgProject of How
Twenty-five step-by-step methods, for anyone looking for the right tool for a complex problem. Made in Stockholm with public funding.
projectofhow.comSalesforce Work Differently
Six principles, six slide decks, six sets of method cards, fourteen video lessons and 24 articles on working differently. From the Salesforce Ignite programme.
salesforce.comTrigger Cards
Eight decks of sixty cards full of “what if” questions, a brainstorming game for creative work. By Alejandro Masferrer, 2016.
trytriggers.comDesign & user research
Methods for design, service design and working with users.
d.school Tools for Taking Action
Thirty-five pieces, from facilitation guides and workshop methods to playlists and reading lists. From the d.school at Stanford University.
dschool.stanford.eduIBM Design Thinking Field Guide
Eleven tools and twenty pages of theory on IBM Design Thinking, including “The Loop” and how it meets agile practice. Links straight to the PDF.
ibm.comIDEO Design Kit
Seven mindsets, 61 tools in three categories and six case studies on human-centred design. By IDEO.org, the social-impact arm of the design agency IDEO.
designkit.orgIoT Service Kit
A board game to print out, with cards and tokens, that lets specialists from different disciplines design Internet-of-Things services together. By Futurice in Berlin.
iotservicekit.comMaterial Design
Documentation, code repositories, tools and icon sets of the Material design language. By Google since 2014, in use across web and mobile applications.
material.ioService Design Toolkit
Twelve workshop templates and two posters as PDFs, plus a handbook and technique cards. An introduction to service design in Dutch and English, by Namahn and Flanders DC.
servicedesigntoolkit.orgService Sandbox
Cards and canvases for three phases: define, ideate, build. For teams developing concepts for digital services in a tangible way, meant for three hours up to two days. By Jane Vita and the Digitalist team.
servicesandbox.netSystemic Design Toolkit
Seven steps, each with its own canvas: frame the problem, map the system, find the leverage points, try out interventions. For teams working on layered, systemic problems.
systemicdesigntoolkit.orgTelekom Design Thinking Doing
Deutsche Telekom’s design thinking process in five phases, each with focus areas and step-by-step methods, gathered in one PDF. By Christian von Reventlow and Philipp Thesen.
telekom.designThe Design Sprint
Everything for a five-day sprint: answering a hard business question by designing, prototyping and testing ideas with customers. By Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz at GV.
gv.comThe Product Designer’s Toolbox
An annotated list of twenty digital tools for product design, sorted by the job they do in a workflow. Put together by Cameron Getty.
medium.comGovernment & digital services
Tools from the public sector, tested on services in production.
18F Methods
Twenty-three methods across five phases: discover, decide, make, validate, fundamentals. By 18F, the digital unit of the US federal government.
methods.18f.govDigital Services Playbook
Thirteen plays, each with a checklist and key questions, for building effective digital government services. By the US Digital Service.
playbook.cio.govGovernment Design Principles
Ten design principles with 27 articles going deeper. They describe how the UK Government Digital Service has approached design since 2012.
gov.ukGovernment Service Manual
A hundred and thirty tools in eight categories for building and running digital services to the UK Digital Service Standard. A lot of administrative detail, and a lot that transfers.
gov.ukMindLab
Sixteen methods in Danish, English and Portuguese, grouped into research, analysis, idea and implementation. By MindLab, the innovation unit of three Danish ministries.
mind-lab.dkOPSI Toolkit Navigator
A directory of 207 further toolkits in fourteen categories, all freely available, around public sector innovation. By the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation.
oecd-opsi.orgPublic Design Vault
Over five hundred tools, templates, case studies and courses at the intersection of design, innovation and public good, sorted into collections. By Jason Leow.
publicdesignvault.comCollaboration & facilitation
Everything that carries workshops, teams and collaboration.
Canvas Collection
A hundred canvases, from business models through open innovation to project management and team culture, with an honest note on when such templates help and when they do not. Collected by facilitator Andi Roberts.
masterfacilitator.comComedy4Companies Toolsack
Thirteen tools as a PDF for better presentations, meetings and pitches. By Com4Com, who translate stand-up comedy technique into working life.
com4com.websiteEQ@Work Playbook
Four PDF playbooks with concepts and exercises for emotional intelligence at work. By humans@work, a collective from Mumbai, London and Amsterdam.
humansatwork.ioHyper Island Toolbox
Seventy-five methods, filterable by category, timeframe and group size, each with a step-by-step guide. Collected and tested at Hyper Island over twenty years.
toolbox.hyperisland.comManagement 3.0
Three card sets and 26 exercises and games with instructions, for more engagement and movement in teams. By Jurgen Appelo and Happy Melly.
management30.comNOBL Academy Tools
Thirty-seven tools with a short description and a step-by-step guide for cultural and organisational change. By the organisational consultancy NOBL.
academy.nobl.ioRemote Starter Kit
Thirty-four remote products, services and methods, linked with commentary. By Hanno, a team that works fully remotely itself.
remotestarterkit.comRetrospective Wiki
A wiki with 34 plans, 21 tools and 14 tips for running retrospectives, open to contributions from Scrum, Extreme Programming and Lean. Started by Rob Bowley.
retrospectivewiki.orgre:Work with Google
Twenty-eight detailed exercises and 26 tools, the practical part of Google’s re:Work, which shares research and practice on data-driven people operations.
rework.withgoogle.comSessionLab Library
Four hundred and ninety-eight methods curated from other collections, filterable by goal, time and group size. Plus a planner for designing workshops together.
sessionlab.comTeamKit
Eighteen cards in three groups: actions, rituals and tools, as a PDF. Assembled from four other collections, for building teams that hold. By Niklaus Gerber.
theteamkit.comAtlassian Team Playbook
Forty-one tools in three groups: health monitors to assess where a team stands, plays as new ways of working, and playbooks for specific purposes. Under an open licence.
atlassian.comThe Teamwork Kit
A handbook of principles and mindsets plus five categories of tools with agendas and facilitator guides as PDFs, for workshops and meetings that carry weight. By the Swedish agency Daresay.
tools.daresay.ioStrategy & business models
From a picture of the future to a business model on one canvas.
Actionable Futures Toolkit
Ten methods in three phases as an Illustrator file, to design a future for an organisation, service or product and align around it. By the design studio Nordkapp.
futures.nordkapp.fiDesign a Better Business
Twenty-six tools with templates and step-by-step guides for business innovation, aimed at turning uncertainty into value. Much of it under an open licence.
designabetterbusiness.comNesta Creative Enterprise Toolkit
Three workbooks along the founding path: the idea, a working business, the customer relationship. For people planning and starting a creative enterprise. By Nesta.
nesta.org.ukStrategyzer
Canvases, testing tools and value-proposition tools out of “Business Model Generation”. By Alex Osterwalder since 2010, continuously extended.
strategyzer.comResponsibility & sustainability
Inclusion, security and ecological consequences as part of design.
IDEO Circular Design Guide
Twenty-eight methods, three mindsets with videos and four stories on circular design, in four steps: understand, define, make, release. By IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
circulardesignguide.comMicrosoft Inclusive Design Kit
Two toolkits with activity and support cards, three booklets and fourteen videos on designing digital services inclusively. Built in 2016 by Microsoft Design with several universities.
microsoft.comPlanet Centric Design Toolkit
A staged process leading to the Planet Centric Design Canvas, a modified Lean Canvas, for more sustainable business solutions. By Impossible and makesense.
impossible.earthThe Security Cards
Forty-two cards across four dimensions and nine activities, to think broadly and creatively about security threats and their human impact. Developed in 2013 at the University of Washington.
securitycards.cs.washington.edu