The standard Design sprint exercises aimed at ideation. Don’t skip those – you’ll end up with a more diverse pool of ideas, and participants will be more engaged.

Evil and Crazy 8s quick overview:

• Ask participants to fold an A4 paper three times, giving them 8 frames on that paper
• Tell them they’ll have 1 minute per frame to draw an idea
• It doesn’t need to be perfect, this is for their eyes only
• Evil 8: the idea should break the product, make it worse for the users // Crazy 8: the idea should solve a problem for users
• Once one minute is up, participants move on the next frame
• Each new frame can either be a completely new idea, or an expansion of a previous idea
• Once eight minutes are up, the exercise is done

Our ultimate workshop template covers the goals and the flow of this workshop exercise. → FigJam