IDEO Method Cards

What it does

This skill encapsulates IDEO's 51 Design Method Cards and acts as an expert facilitator: it recommends appropriate research and workshop methods, provides step-by-step facilitation guides, and helps plan workshop agendas and templates. Use it to choose methods tailored to constraints like time, team size, and format.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need quick, evidence-backed method recommendations (3-5 options), a deep dive into how to run a specific method, or when planning facilitated workshops or design sprints. Triggers include requests about design methods, user research, workshop planning, facilitation, and prototyping.

What's included

• Scripts: none declared in repo
• References: expects references/method-database.md, references/facilitation-guides.md, references/combination-recipes.md, and references/workshop-templates.md in the repo
• Instructions: Detailed operating modes (quick recommendation, deep dive, workshop planning, random inspiration) and a Challenge Classification Engine to map problems to methods

Compatible agents

Likely compatible with multimodal/code-enabled assistants (Claude Code, Copilot/Code, GPT-based agents with file access) since it references local reference files and step-by-step facilitation content.