Ambassador Resource
Activity Library
A menu of standalone activities. Pick what fits your group, your time, and your vibe. Nothing is required in a specific order.
🔴 Icebreakers & Openers
Aesthetic Audit
Everyone pulls up images they love and explains exactly what makes the design work.
Designer or Not?
Describe objects and spaces — the group guesses whether a designer was intentionally involved.
Two Truths and a Design
Share two real design opinions and one fake one — the group guesses which is the lie.
🟠Empathy & Research
Shadowing Safari
Observe a real person interacting with a designed system and take notes like a researcher.
Empathy Map Sprint
Pick a real person in your life and build an empathy map around one specific problem they face.
The Five Whys
Ask 'why?' five times on a design problem to uncover the real root cause.
🟡 Ideation
Crazy 8s
Sketch 8 completely different design ideas in 8 minutes. Speed is the whole point.
Worst Possible Idea
Generate the absolute worst solutions on purpose — then flip them to find what good looks like.
Steal Like a Designer
Find solutions from totally unrelated industries and apply them to your design challenge.
🟢 Design & Prototyping
App Teardown
Dissect an app everyone uses like a designer, then sketch one screen you'd redesign.
Redesign for Accessibility
Redesign something familiar to work for someone with a specific constraint or disability.
Brand in a Box
Given a made-up company brief, design a full brand identity in 30 minutes.
Design for Good
Pick a real problem in your school or community. Design a real solution. Present it. This is the capstone activity.
🔵 Career & Industry
Design Role Bingo
A bingo card of 25 design roles — members research and match descriptions to discover careers they didn't know existed.
Day in the Life
Walk through the unglamorous reality of a working designer's day through three scenarios requiring real decisions.
Portfolio Roast (Kind Edition)
Look at real design portfolios together and give structured feedback — not on the work, but on how it's presented.
🌸 Openers & Closers
Rose, Bud, Thorn
A structured check-in: share a highlight (rose), something you're looking forward to (bud), and a challenge (thorn).
One-Word Weather
Describe how you're arriving in one weather word — sunny, foggy, stormy, partly cloudy.
What I'm Taking With Me
A closing reflection: each person names one idea, insight, or energy they're carrying out of the meeting.
Appreciation Circle
Members call out something specific they appreciated about another member's contribution.
Facilitator's Warm-Up
A quick facilitation ritual to get the group present and signal that the meeting has started.
Session Snapshot
A fast end-of-meeting reflection capturing what the group learned, made, and wants next.