Brainstorming - Popcorn and Round Robin
Simple, classic brainstorming with two variants. Popcorn - where participants speak out-loud and Round Robin - where participants work in silence and pass their ideas to the next person in turn.
Simple, classic brainstorming with two variants. Popcorn - where participants speak out-loud and Round Robin - where participants work in silence and pass their ideas to the next person in turn.
You can use the Draw Toast exercise to introduce people to the concepts of visual thinking, working memory, mental models and/or systems thinking.
This also works as a nice warm-up exercise to get people engaged with each other and thinking visually. Plus, it’s fun!
A fast and loud method to enhance brainstorming within a team. Since this activity has more than round ideas that are repetitive can be ruled out leaving more creative and innovative answers to the challenge.
At IDEO.org we have seven little rules that unlock the creative power of a brainstorming session.
Customer experience mapping is a method of documenting and visualizing the experience a customer has as they use the product or service. It also maps out their responses to their experiences.
To be used when there is a solution (even in a conceptual stage) that can be analyzed.
Brainwriting is essentially the same as brainstorming. Ideas are generated by asking people to write them down instead of verbally presenting them.
The lotus blossom method is a creativity exercise. It is a framework for idea generation, starting from one central theme. Eight conceptual themes grow out from the main theme and each of them are used as central theme to generate 8 more themes. Explore!
A mind map is a diagram used to represent a number of ideas or things. Mind maps are methods for analyzing information and relationships.
A brainstorming and prioritizing method that places emphasis on the most important ideas and actions.
A Morphological chart is a method that splits a product/solution into smaller chunks that can then be analyzed and ideated for independently. Afterwards those ideas can be mixed and matched to develop different solutions.
To be used after having a clear overview of the design problem and at the beginning of the ideation phase.
This brainstorming method uses our senses to generate ideas.
Future workshop is a method that aims to have stakeholders design their desired future, avoiding constraints imposed by experts or organizations.
To be used when ideas need to be developed outside of the design team.