Tools for Innovators

A collection of frameworks, toolkits, decks and boardgames that can help your team or your organization innovate. Many of the tools have free printable versions and if you poke around the website of the creators you will discover more awesome stuff.

Ideo Method Cards

Ideo Method Cards

Deck of cards to help you understand the people you are designing for.
Deck
Business Model Blocks

Business Model Blocks

Toolkit to help you explore existing or new business ideas.
Special Toolkit
Business Model Canvas

Business Model Canvas

Canvas to help you develop new or document existing business models.
Canvas
Game Changer: The Business Innovation Game

Game Changer: The Business Innovation Game

Deck of cards to help you create a business model. Works well with Business Model Canvas.
Deck
Happy Startup Canvas

Happy Startup Canvas

Canvas inspired by the Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas and Culture Canvas.
Canvas
Envisioning.io

Envisioning.io

Online tool to help you generate insight on emerging technologies.
Online Tool
Futurescan

Futurescan

Canvas with 200+ thought-provoking future predictions.
Canvas
NowandNext

NowandNext

Trend maps created by futurist Richard Watson.
Special Toolkit
FrogThink Toolkit

FrogThink Toolkit

Boardgame containing a flexible set of creative collaboration methods for generating innovative solutions.
Boardgame
55+ Pattern Cards

55+ Pattern Cards

Deck of cards and book to help you refine your current business idea.
Deck
Kalide

Kalide

Boardgame to help you think of innovative ideas and/or expand the scope of existing ideas.
Boardgame
Ovam Sis Toolkit

Ovam Sis Toolkit

Boardgame to help you in a brainstorming session or design process.
Boardgame
Business Innovation Kit

Business Innovation Kit

Boardgame to help you define a range of ideas and viable business models for a new or existing business.
Boardgame
IoT Service Kit

IoT Service Kit

Boardgame to help you explore IoT user scenarios.
Boardgame
IMPACT: A Foresight Game

IMPACT: A Foresight Game

Boardgame to help you think critically and imaginatively about emerging technology and the future of society.
Boardgame
Brainstorm Cards - 52 Ways to Generate New Ideas

Brainstorm Cards - 52 Ways to Generate New Ideas

Deck of cards to help you brainstorm and come up with new ideas.
Deck
ShipIt Journal

ShipIt Journal

Pamphlet to help you launch your porduct.
Canvas
SOFT Ideation Card Game

SOFT Ideation Card Game

Deck of cards to help you brainstorm creative business ideas.
Deck
Drivers of Change

Drivers of Change

Deck of cards to help you investigates key global issues and trends in our societies and markets.
Deck
75 Tools for Creative Thinking

75 Tools for Creative Thinking

Deck of cards to help you be creative at the different stages of any process or situation where new ideas are desired.
Deck
100% Open Toolkit

100% Open Toolkit

Collection of online methods to helps you along the whole innovation journey.
Online Tool
Design Kit

Design Kit

Collection of online methods to help you unleashing your creativity.
Online Tool
Design Method Toolkit

Design Method Toolkit

Collection of online problem solving methods based on the design thinking methodology.
Online Tool
DIY Toolkit

DIY Toolkit

Collection of methods to help you trigger and support social innovation.
Framework
Hyper Island ToolBox

Hyper Island ToolBox

Collection of methods to help you apply creative collaboration in your team and organization.
Framework
Method Kits

Method Kits

Collection of card decks, designed to help you develop ideas, and collaborate better.
Deck
Project of How

Project of How

Collection of brainstorming methods everyone can start using right away.
Framework
Design With Intent Toolkit

Design With Intent Toolkit

Deck of cards to help you design with influencing user behaviour in mind.
Deck
Service Design Tools

Service Design Tools

Deck of cards to help you with the design processes that deal with complex systems.
Deck
Moo Planning Poker

Moo Planning Poker

Deck of cards to help you plan scrum sprints.
Deck
Planning Poker Cards

Planning Poker Cards

Deck of cards to help you plan scrum sprints.
Deck
Game Seeds

Game Seeds

Deck of cards to help you improve your game design skills.
Deck
The Gamestorming Cheat Sheet

The Gamestorming Cheat Sheet

Collection of games to help you solve problems.
Framework
CoCo Toolkit

CoCo Toolkit

Board game to help you in adapting co-creation activities.
Boardgame
Platform Design Toolkit

Platform Design Toolkit

Canvases to help you with service design & business modeling.
Canvas
Service Design Toolkit

Service Design Toolkit

Canvases to help you with introduction to the methodology of service design.
Canvas
The Circular Design Guide

The Circular Design Guide

Online toolkit with radical, restorative, regenerative approach to business.
Online Tool
Kanban/Scrum Toolkit

Kanban/Scrum Toolkit

Blackboard with magnetic elements to help you with your kanban and scrum process.
Special Toolkit
Disruptus

Disruptus

Boardgame to help you kickstart innovation sessions.
Boardgame
Lego Serious Play

Lego Serious Play

Legos to help you enhance innovation and business performance.
Special Toolkit
Scenario Exploration System

Scenario Exploration System

Bardgame to help you with building scenarios.
Boardgame
Lego Serious Play Communication Cards

Lego Serious Play Communication Cards

Deck of cards about communication made by Lego.
Deck
Design Thinking Toolkit

Design Thinking Toolkit

Toolkit that was created to be a design thinking workshop in a box.
Framework
Égaru - Idea to Market

Égaru - Idea to Market

Deck of cards to help you learn about entrepreneurship.
Deck
STEEP Foresight Cards

STEEP Foresight Cards

Deck of cards to help you with external analysis.
Deck
58 Values

58 Values

Deck of cards to help you visualise what makes us who we are.
Deck
100 Questions: Original Edition

100 Questions: Original Edition

Deck of cards to help you start a conversations.
Deck
100 Questions: Work Edition

100 Questions: Work Edition

Deck of cards to help you start a conversations about you and your working life.
Deck
Brand Deck

Brand Deck

Deck of cards to help you figure out who you are.
Deck
Kernel Cards

Kernel Cards

Deck of cards to help you create a digital content strategy.
Deck
Personality Poker

Personality Poker

Deck of cards to help you with team building.
Deck
The Oblique Strategies

The Oblique Strategies

Deck of cards to help you get unstuck. Made in 1975 with muicians in mind.
Deck
UX Flowchart Cards

UX Flowchart Cards

Deck of cards to help you design and build websites.
Deck
Designercise

Designercise

Boardgame to help you with creative thinking and ideation.
Boardgame
IXD Checklist

IXD Checklist

Online UI/UX Checklist.
Online Tool
Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit

Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit

Toolkit to help you incorporate design principles in your activities.
Framework
UX Techniques

UX Techniques

Online list of UX techniques ato help you with development of your project.
Online Tool
Entanglement

Entanglement

Book about a very strange but brilliant concept that you`ll have to figure out by yourself.
Book
Deckaholick

Deckaholick

Website that collects card deck style tools.
Deck
TechForesight - Visions

TechForesight - Visions

Collection of several technology foresight canvases.
Online Tool
Analytics Cards

Analytics Cards

Deck of cards to help you explore business insights using Google Analytics.
Deck
Strategy Deck

Strategy Deck

Deck of online cards to help you with your communication strategy.
Online Tool
Human Drives Cards

Human Drives Cards

Deck of cards to help you with ideation and co-design sessions.
Deck
Doblin Innovation Tactics Cards

Doblin Innovation Tactics Cards

Deck of cards to help you innovate, based on the Ten Types of Innovation Framework.
Deck
The Design Deck

The Design Deck

Deck of cards that doubles as a practical guide to graphic design.
Deck
Untools

Untools

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Online Tool
CNVS - Canvas Builder

CNVS - Canvas Builder

Online canvas builder to help you explore any topic you desire.
Online Tool
Black Design Toolkit

Black Design Toolkit

Collection of tools with which you can generate a canvas to help with the design process of a startups.
Canvas
Buyer Persona by HubSpot

Buyer Persona by HubSpot

Online tool to help you generate a Buyer Persona and export it as a canvas.
Canvas
Lean Service Creation Canvas

Lean Service Creation Canvas

A collection of 23 canvases to help you with service and product creation.
Canvas
Strategy Canvases

Strategy Canvases

Strategy tools from helping you explore new business models, grow a startup, to forming your own supercluster.
Canvas
Design Thinking Workshop Kit

Design Thinking Workshop Kit

A downloadable framework to help you with running a successful design thinking workshop.
Framework
Kick Cards

Kick Cards

Deck of cards to help you identify risks and opportunities with a pocket-sized pack of smarts.
Deck
The Community Canvas

The Community Canvas

A collection of canvases to help you build meaningful communities, available in multiple languages.
Canvas
Lego Serious Play - Playing Cards

Lego Serious Play - Playing Cards

Deck of cards to help you use the innovative methods of Lego Serious Play in your meetings and workshops.
Deck
The Font Deck

The Font Deck

Deck of cards that doubles as a practical guide to typography.
Deck
Don’t/Do This Game

Don’t/Do This Game

Deck fo cards with thought experiments to get you out of your comfort zone.
Deck
What Do I Really Want To Achieve?

What Do I Really Want To Achieve?

Deck of cards to give you some ideas on what you should be focusing on.
Deck
StoryHow

StoryHow

Deck of cards that help you find, develop, and tell business stories that people remember.
Deck
Emergent by Design

Emergent by Design

Older blog post that lists several tools.
Special Toolkit
Playing Lean 2

Playing Lean 2

Board game where players face the hard choices of innovation without getting out of the building.
Boardgame
World of Insights Cards Collection

World of Insights Cards Collection

Collection of Deck of Cards to help you generate insight in your business.
Deck
22 Business Model Testing Cards

22 Business Model Testing Cards

Deck of card to help you systematically decrease uncertainty in your business.
Deck
The Launch Planning Deck

The Launch Planning Deck

Deck of cards with a 4-step system to make planning your next (or first!) launch stress-free.
Deck
UX Tools - Challenges

UX Tools - Challenges

A pack of cards to help you practice UX with real-world exercises.
Online Tool
Design Thinking Activities

Design Thinking Activities

A collection of activities to help you with the design thinking process by Atomic Object.
Framework
CIFS - Scenario Magazine

CIFS - Scenario Magazine

Collection of Reports and magazines about the future and future trends.
Online Tool
UX Design Card Deck

UX Design Card Deck

Deck of cards to help you understand design better.
Deck
The UX Deck

The UX Deck

A card-based user testing model to meet the needs of projects that require early-stage research and validation.
Deck
The Website Deck

The Website Deck

A deck of cards to help you build and quickly revise sitemaps and flows.
Deck
The Wireframe Deck

The Wireframe Deck

A deck of cards for building website or app layouts, right on your desk.
Deck
Discovery Cards

Discovery Cards

A deck of cards to help you and your team uncover the heart of the issue at hand.
Deck
The Emotional Culture Deck

The Emotional Culture Deck

A simple card game toolkit that helps people redesign their workplace culture.
Deck
Mental Notes

Mental Notes

A deck of cards that brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool.
Deck
Triggers - Ideation Tools

Triggers - Ideation Tools

A collection of deck of cards to help you in brainstorming ideas for any kind of creative project.
Deck
Roadblocks to Innovation

Roadblocks to Innovation

A deck of cards to help teams anticipate universal project pitfalls and eliminate organizational barriers.
Deck
Innovation Cards

Innovation Cards

A simple to use toolset to spark creativity and collaboration.
Framework
Classic Creative Thinking Card Deck

Classic Creative Thinking Card Deck

A deck fo cards to to stimulate creative thinking and generate solutions for a range of challenges or opportunities.
Deck
Design Sprint Kit

Design Sprint Kit

A collection of open-source resources for anyone who is learning about or running Design Sprints.
Online Tool
The Service Design Toolkit

The Service Design Toolkit

5 toolkits designed to help you at each process step in your service design project.
Deck
Validation Pattern Deck

Validation Pattern Deck

Deck of cards designed as safe-to-fail experiments that will help you validate your riskiest assumptions.
Deck
UI Pattern Deck

UI Pattern Deck

A deck of cards distilling complex concepts into digestible bits to help on end feature debates, and spark new ideas.
Deck
Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 Deck of Cards

Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 Deck of Cards

A deck of playing cards designed to be used as a problem-solving device.
Deck
Service Co-creation Game

Service Co-creation Game

A boardgame designed to helps cross-disciplinary teams plan service co-creation projects.
Boardgame
Strategy and Question Cards

Strategy and Question Cards

2 set of decks to help you formulate your strategy and get to know your inner self better.
Deck
Behavior Strategy Cards

Behavior Strategy Cards

A set of 23 cards crafted to help designers facing a behavior change challenge, think through strategies to nudge people toward positive behavioral outcomes.
Deck
The Meeting Design Game

The Meeting Design Game

A new innovative way to improve the planning of your meetings and conferences.
Framework
Workshop Tactics

Workshop Tactics

A deck of 54 bitesize workshop recipes. Each tactic helps you confidently lead your product team to get stuff done.
Deck
Innovation Mix Kit

Innovation Mix Kit

A toolkit based on the principles of Design Thinking and Open Innovation and includes a selection of our experts’ most popular methods.
Online Tool
Platform Inovation Toolkit

Platform Inovation Toolkit

A toolkit supporting the Double Loop Framework to discover, launch and scale a platform business.
Canvas
The IoT Design Kit

The IoT Design Kit

A set of design and strategy workshop tools to be used standalone or as part of an idea generation and validation process.
Canvas
Artefact Cards

Artefact Cards

A series of decks of cards to help you capture, sort and play with your ideas.
Deck
Innovation Solution Box

Innovation Solution Box

An innovation toolkit containing books, cards, cubes, and portable canvases for customer-centric business innovation.
Framework
The Doing Well Deck

The Doing Well Deck

A deck of cards built for individuals, teams and organisations who want to deal to stress and disruption.
Deck
The Well Being Deck

The Well Being Deck

A card game that breaks taboos and tokenism and lets us create our own definition of wellbeing.
Deck
Design Elevator Toolkit

Design Elevator Toolkit

A toolkit to help you apply design thinking in your business and personal projects whether you are an individual, startup or a seasoned company.
Canvas
OPSI Toolkit Navigator

OPSI Toolkit Navigator

A collection of freely available innovation toolkits created by authors in the public, private, academic and not-for-profit sectors.
Framework
Collective Action Toolkit

Collective Action Toolkit

A toolkit for leaders who want to bring people together to solve problems in their community, while gaining valuable skills and knowledge along the way.
Framework
Legal Service Design Toolkit

Legal Service Design Toolkit

A deck of cards created to accompany when designing legal services and experiences with users in mind.
Deck
Circular Business Card Deck

Circular Business Card Deck

A deck of cards designed to help small to large groups discover circular business strategies in less than ten minutes.
Deck
In the Loop ® Game: Board Game

In the Loop ® Game: Board Game

A serious game that helps players take the first step in identifying what it means to move towards a more circular economy.
Boardgame
Circularity Deck

Circularity Deck

A deck of cards for tangible play and fun exploration by yourself and in teams in order to trigger creativity and thinking.
Deck
The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses

The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses

A deck of cards aimed at teaching the basic principles of game design and encourages players to become better game designers.
Deck
100 Questions: Family Edition

100 Questions: Family Edition

A set of 100 question cards designed for families who enjoy lively discussions and meaningful conversations.
Deck
100 Questions: Love Edition

100 Questions: Love Edition

A set of 100 question cards to spark meaningful conversations around love and relationships.
Deck
Elevate Your Culture - Culture Cards

Elevate Your Culture - Culture Cards

A deck of cards designed to help teams to engage and create meaningful conversations.
Deck
Core Values Cards

Core Values Cards

A deck of cards designed to help you reflect on your values and act consciously in line with them.
Deck
The Marketing Canvas Method

The Marketing Canvas Method

A co-creation method to discover, assess and reinforce your marketing strategy, including a deck of 60 cards.
Framework
Connection Cards

Connection Cards

A deck of cards designed to encourage open, creative, and innovative thinking in both professional and personal settings.
Deck
Paradox Cards

Paradox Cards

Am ideation tool for consciously bringing together the paradoxical sides of a problem to achieve solutions for the whole.
Deck
Mixed-reality Game Cards

Mixed-reality Game Cards

A deck of cards to help you in designing mixed-reality games, no matter if you are an expert or have no previous experience.
Deck
In-person Sprint Kit

In-person Sprint Kit

An easy-to-follow instruction set to make every design sprint a speedy success and get the outcomes your team needs.
Canvas
Intùiti® Creative Cards

Intùiti® Creative Cards

Each card represents a powerful incentive and is designed using Gestalt principles so you can recognize emotionally the related archetype.
Deck
AnyThink Creativity Cards

AnyThink Creativity Cards

This is the tool to inspire and help creatives to take action, explore new approaches and find new paths.
Deck
Killer Questions Card Deck

Killer Questions Card Deck

This deck is the perfect problem solver when you don`t know where to start or what direction to go in.
Deck
MindKompass Mindfulness

MindKompass Mindfulness

25 creative mindfulness exercises, a plain mindfulness journal to capture your thoughts as you practice and 3 colouring sheets for your inner artist.
Deck
IoT Ideation Pack and Cards

IoT Ideation Pack and Cards

Packs of cards with simple descriptions of components you can use to understand or design new IoT products.
Deck
Brainstorm Kit

Brainstorm Kit

A kit has everything you need in a handy, portable box for brainstorming in your business or workshop session.
Framework
Design Fiction Product Kit

Design Fiction Product Kit

A toolkit created to help imagine possible near futures.
Framework
Mechanicards

Mechanicards

A tool to design board games, each card represents a board game component and facilitates discussion to create variants of existing games or new games.
Deck
Flaws of the Smart City

Flaws of the Smart City

A critical thinking kit to explore the dark faces of the so-called Smart Cities with the aim to fix them or exploit them to set chaos.
Framework
The Customer Experience Deck

The Customer Experience Deck

A beautifully designed simple tool for better customer experience and more aligned employees.
Deck
Creativity Affirmation Cards Deck

Creativity Affirmation Cards Deck

50 affirmations to help you help yourself–without the self-helpy-ness and supercharge the creative muse within you.
Deck
Pocketful of Ideas

Pocketful of Ideas

A deck of cards designed for kids to stimulate thier imagination with story-based challenges.
Deck
Persuasive Pattern Deck

Persuasive Pattern Deck

A deck of cards with design patterns driven by psychology to be used as a brainstorming tool.
Deck