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TOOLKIT: Ideation



Guidelines for Generating Ideas


Take a look at the following videos:





In sum, the two most important rules to hold a successful brainstorming session are:

  1. to suspend judgement (every idea should be captured), and,
  2. to build on the ideas of others.

In addition, working on a vertical surface and standing up generates more energy for the brainstorm (if you are working remotely, this translates to having a digital whiteboarding surface like Mural, where everyone can write down ideas and see the ideas others contribute). Finally, a great way to promote the flow of ideas is to introduce different constraints, doing rounds of a few minutes generating ideas considering each condition. Here is a video you can use to generate constraints during a brainstorm. Press play and then pause at random. Use the resulting constraint as an aid in your brainstorm:




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