How to use the Design principles workshop template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Design principles workshop template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Design principles workshop”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Bring real screens, not opinions. Write the patterns as short principles, then test each against one past disagreement.”
Fill in each part
- Proud of Work that felt right. Why?
- Regret Work we’d do differently. Why?
- Patterns What the good examples share.
- Draft principles Short, arguable, memorable.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Design principles workshop board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Five-day design sprint
Go from a big question to a tested prototype in one week: understand, explore, choose, build and learn from real people.
Product principles
Write the few principles that settle product arguments before they start, each with an example of what it rules in and out.
Design critique
Give feedback on a design against its goal: what works, open questions, concrete suggestions and what the designer decides.
Feedback grid
Collect reactions to a demo, prototype or talk in four boxes: what people liked, what to change, open questions and new ideas.
User flow
The screens and steps a person goes through to finish one task, with what each step must achieve and where it can go wrong.
Usability test plan
Plan a round of usability sessions: what you need to learn, with whom, the tasks they will try and how you will judge success.