Design and use the space efficiently for all the activities in your session.
Frameworks contain a variety of pre-formatted activities that you can use for your templates. You can browse these activities and use them to build your visual space. Many of these frameworks also have powerful visual analogies you can use to support the conversation.
Another great way to cluster ideas and group information is to use areas. If participants are brainstorming in one activity, you can drag similar thoughts in sticky notes to place them together. Plus, you can use different colors for sticky notes to label and identify similar ideas.
When you’re building content in the mural, you can create one section and duplicate the objects to quickly design the entire working space and re-format to fit your needs. Use these keyboard shortcuts to duplicate objects in the mural.
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Okay, next let's look at how we can design the space for the rest of the activities. Another tip I wanted to share is to always look in the frameworks menu, if you can find any pre-formatted activities that you can use for your templates. So in the frameworks menu, you will find basic frameworks such as layouts, you have free form area, a grid area.
We also have a two by two grid, lines We can also find design frameworks with personas, roadmaps, et cetera, some Agile frameworks. We can find Kanban boards, retrospective, and so on. And there are also some business frameworks and calendars here as well. I wanted to start the session with a check-in and one of my favorite activities for check-in is what's on your radar. So let's go to the LUMA tab here in the frameworks section, and let's see if we can find the “what's on your radar” framework. In order to add a framework to the mural, you can just drag and drop it onto the canvas. The frameworks come in a default size, but you might want to see if you need to resize it for the amount of participants that are going to join your session.
So, in order to kind of calculate how much space you need for each of the activities, I'm going to add a couple of placeholder stickies to help me design the space and evaluate how much space I need. So I'm gonna add three sticky notes per person. So in this activity, people are going to add the tasks and the projects that they're currently working on onto sticky notes. So I'm gonna give each person a couple of sticky notes to start with. You can also assign different colors to different participants.
So, for this activity, for example, let's do that quickly for this activity, for example, it's good to think about how many sticky notes you think you're gonna add in the center here for each of the sections. They're gonna be different categories here too, but we probably want to be able to add at least three sticky notes in the middle of the radar. So I'm going to add three sticky notes here, and now we're going to increase the size of this framework. So that's what can make a little bit more space for our sticky notes and we can make it pretty large.
As you can see when you resize the frameworks, the sticky notes on top of it will move with the framework. So frameworks are, we call them sticky. Anything you put on top of the frameworks will stick with them when you move them, this also means that that when you resize the frameworks, the sticky notes would be resized with them, too. So now just select the sticky notes and make sure that they're default size to see if they fit better. Now, this looks pretty good. Now we can fit about three different sticky notes in the middle of the radar. So I think we're good to continue now. For the Watson Erie directivity.
You can also have different categories to this different pie slices. So I'm gonna go ahead and add a placeholder here. We're gonna add a title. We're gonna add a title to each of the sections. So we can just go ahead and add this order around the canvas. So before you invite your team to the session, or just before you do this activity together in the session, you can actually name these categories and assign different titles to them. It's now going to look at how we can fill some workspace for current state project Rose thorn bud. So Rose Thorn Bud is a really good activity that you can use for almost any type of check-in or to identify the status of a project.
So again, we're gonna use sticky notes. So we want to have one of the spaces for each of the participants.
Since we have six people participating in the section, a session we're gonna need six different clusters so sticky notes, we can also assign, give a name tag to the sections, so that each person can claim the space and work there throughout the session. So now I'm going to select this one here. I'm going to duplicate it. I'm gonna move it a bit over to the side. I like to place this, individual brainstorming areas with a bit of distance between them, because that's where it's harder to look at what other people are typing, and you will ensure that you have a wider range of ideas. So now we have six different working areas where people can work within as well, so they can clean their space. Next we're going to do some affinity clusters and here, we could actually set up a little bit of space for people to create their clusters.
In order to create clusters, the area tool is really useful. So we can have a couple of placeholder areas here and we can name them cluster one, we can create it's cluster two. We can have cluster three, et cetera. so when people are then sharing their observations at the same time, you can basically just drag the sticky notes in here and place similar sticky notes together. I'm going to add sticky notes into these areas. As you can see, the area will move with it together with the sticky notes. So this is a really good way to create clusters and groups, similar ideas.
And then finally, we want to add some space here for next steps. so we could actually let's use the same color coding from the previous activity here. So I can just copy the sticky notes with different colors, and then we can go ahead and place them in the next steps here. That's also add, and then tagging here at the beginning. So we know who we're assigning to, and we're gonna add some arrows here as well. So if you hold down the city kid and drag, you can add connectors, separate easily.
And if actually called the items in the menu that pops up here as well, you can automatically create the new line, put a new sticky note, at the same time.