Future State Blueprinting

Learn how to blueprint your desired future-state experience and create an actionable plan to implement and deliver.

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Learn how to blueprint your desired future state experience and create an actionable plan to implement and deliver.

Map your vision into reality. Turn your design into an actionable implementation plan. Learn how to facilitate a future state blueprinting process!

You will learn what it takes to organize and run a future state blueprinting process, facilitate a blueprinting session virtually, synthesize the output and generate actionable work for your organization to implement the new design, and grow your skills as a trained blueprinting facilitator!

What this course covers:

  • Learn what a future-state experience delivery blueprint is, and what it’s good for!
  • Plan out your future state blueprinting project
  • Learn how to facilitate a future state blueprinting session
  • Learn each step of the blueprinting process
  • Understand what to do with the output of your blueprint
  • Know how to turn your high level future state vision into a concrete design that you can implement with your organization
  • Learn how to take a blueprint map and turn it into an implementation plan to deliver the new experience
  • Virtual and remote facilitation techniques for blueprinting

The class is packed with content! Each lecture has a full HD video segment, links and resources, and worksheets and templates.

Apply this course directly to your work with follow alongs that walk you through each step of the process with real examples. This not your typical online course. You will walk away with a real work product that your boss and team will love.


Your Instructor


Erik Flowers and Megan Erin Miller
Erik Flowers and Megan Erin Miller

Hi! We’re Erik & Megan, and together we're the founders of Practical by Design.

We believe there is a more practical way to tackle complex organizational and systemic challenges we face in the modern world. The future of work will depend on agility, flexibility, and scalable frameworks to help us succeed as complexity grows.

Practical by Design presents a new practical way of working, developed on the job from real-world challenges. We’ve worked hard to distill our practice into an action-oriented learning framework, with courses, templates, coaching, and content to get you working the practical way, fast!

Join thousands from around the globe and across industries in leveraging The Practical Way to transform your practice and catapult your career and your organization into the future of work.

About Megan

With over 15 years of design and leadership experience, Megan practices and leads teams in a rigorous, data and empathy-driven design practice. She is passionate about talent development, and chases her purpose to connect, inspire, ignite, and empower others.

About Erik

Erik is a 24 year veteran of working with technology and design to make new, novel and interesting things. Creative productivity with like-minded people is his obsession; he is driven to engage, entertain, and educate people with works of meaning and merit.


Course Curriculum


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Testimonials

Blueprinting helped me unpack and showcase an existing process and allow people to visualize the troubles of our users. It helped the business side create a new process.

—Principal Manager, Business Transformation, Government

Practical Blueprinting gave me the right language to get the buy-in from leadership and stakeholders. The template was easy and allowed us to externalize things that were boxed up institutional knowledge and collectively raise the business acumen for everyone. That was priceless. The blueprint became a conversation piece driving healthy conversations and conflicts that elevated the quality of collaboration.

—Innovation Strategist, Consulting

It’s easy to talk about customer journeys. It is difficult to map them. But using Practical Blueprinting makes it easier.

—Chief Service Officer, Information Technology Consulting

We transformed our entire global talent-acquisition organization strategy using service design that started with a blueprinting session!

—UX Researcher, Technology and Manufacturing

Blueprinting has helped us create rituals to eliminate silos and guarantee that our efforts are client-centered.

—Head of Design, Corp. Development and Digital Transformation

Blueprinting helped me unpack and showcase an existing process and allow people to visualize the troubles of our users. It helped the business side create a new process.

—Principal Manager, Business Transformation, Government

Practical Blueprinting gave me the right language to get the buy-in from leadership and stakeholders. The template was easy and allowed us to externalize things that were boxed up institutional knowledge and collectively raise the business acumen for everyone. That was priceless. The blueprint became a conversation piece driving healthy conversations and conflicts that elevated the quality of collaboration.

—Innovation Strategist, Consulting

It’s easy to talk about customer journeys. It is difficult to map them. But using Practical Blueprinting makes it easier.

—Chief Service Officer, Information Technology Consulting

We transformed our entire global talent-acquisition organization strategy using service design that started with a blueprinting session!

—UX Researcher, Technology and Manufacturing

Blueprinting has helped us create rituals to eliminate silos and guarantee that our efforts are client-centered.

—Head of Design, Corp. Development and Digital Transformation

Loved it!! I thought it was the most practical course I’ve taken. I liked how you walked through the blueprinting process step by step. I feel like I can run a blueprinting process next week!

—Course Taker

The tone, style, and content in the course was really engaging. The process is a big improvement on how we were doing things, particularly because you took it all the way through making the results actionable. Thanks for that!

—Course Taker

The Practical Blueprint helped me enormously to design better interactions with clients of our commercial programs. Thanks to it, we improve satisfaction by more than 150%.

—Head of Sales Excellence, Global Marketing Firm

Practical Blueprinting provided me with a framework which I could use to engage my colleagues and add the right amount of friction to each step by forcing us to consider all the requirements to deliver it.

—Co-Founder & Service Designer, Healthcare Services

Ultimately, blueprinting guided alignment within the department and what new resources were missing for new hires during onboarding.

—Service Designer, Travel Rewards company

It brought teams together, broke down silos, and brought out empathy. It made people realize that there were many things that they did not know, and gave a focus on what to act on.

—Service Designer & Research Manager, Global B2B

Amazing, simply amazing! From just a short course I was able to deep dive into processes within my organization and fully understand the problems throughout the journey, identifying tactical and strategic changes for improvement.

—Digital Transformation Manager, Gov. Services

I am new to service design, and the course was very fluid and simple to understand. I was able to apply the method with an auto manufacturer in a 3-day workshop. The plan and ideation that came out of the effort were phenomenal and appreciated and owned by the CEO.

—Principal Consultant, Consulting

As a lawyer, blueprinting helps me provide better services to my clients, and helps me think about how I create my own services in a frictionless manner.

—Partner, Law Firm

I loved everything about the Practical Blueprinting course. It was well designed, and takes the method of the blueprint and strips away all the formalities to identify issues fast. The heat map effect allows for quick identification of what needs the most attention.

—Event Designer, Self Employed

I really enjoyed this course. It’s not very often that you can get this in-depth look at how to use a methodology and to see it in action.

—Course Taker

Each section was easy and quick to digest, and I appreciate all the tools that you also include in the process of learning!

—Course Taker

This is a super accessible course. You did a great job of explaining simple ways to address complex problems. And using legos for the mock sessions is genius. All around, very fun and educational!

—Course Taker

Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
How is the course structured?
In each module, there are several sections with videos, links and resources, and templates. At the end of every module is a follow along to help you put your learning into action that walks through how to do each step of the process with real examples.
How much time is needed to complete the course?
Estimate ~3-6 hours to watch and read the content of the course (video lectures, modules), ~4-6 hours to follow along and go through the blueprinting process using our templates, and if you plan to use this course as a companion to running your first blueprinting session, expect additional time to prep for the session, and ~2-4 hours for the session itself.
How do I get support?
You can contact us on www.practicalbydesign.co/contact if you have a question or a technical or billing issue, and we will be happy to help you.

Jumpstart your future-state experience design process with creating actionable implementation plans for experience delivery. Join thousands around the globe in adopting this practical method to blueprinting your experiences today!

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