Typical brainstorming sessions are an hour-long opportunity for a team’s extroverts to dominate discussion and generate ideas while the introverts struggle to contribute.
I'm not sure this is usually the "typical" brainstorming experience, at least not in a smaller group.
This technique can get up to 108 ideas from six participants in just 30 minutes, and it’s great if you want to encourage every participant to generate ideas – especially if your team is predominantly introverts.
I feel like this wouldn't suit me. What if there are multiple people that feel stumped early on? Also sounds like it takes a chunk of time to get to one cohesive idea.
Storyboarding is about arranging and categorizing ideas and solutions in a linear format and order. It’s best done after brainstorming to generate ideas.
I like how organized this style of brainstorming is and it could even be a great task to keep your mind moving. I can see myself doing this technique when it comes to generating new ideas.
Mind maps are visual diagrams used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged around a central keyword or idea. Often, colours and drawings add to the visualization.
I enjoyed reading about mind mapping, seems like a great way to include seeing the idea in front of you and adding visualization as a component. Definitely trying this out.
This process can continue until you find an idea everyone believes in. Flesh out the winning sketches with details before moving to prototype creation and user testing.
This way of brainstorming isn't familiar with me so I can see how this is useful. It does seem like a fun kind of "game" to get the juices flowing.
“What if there is no gravity, how can we improve the flying experience?”
This is a great way to think about it, similar to wishing, it is a great way to build processes. I can see why this is a very useful way to brainstorm.
Ask participants to focus on generating bad ideas only. They should consider everything that couldn’t work before you ask them “What can we do to make these ideas work better?”
This is a similar point to the other article. I like how it alleviates the tension and pressure that people feel during a brainstorm.
starting to feel brain dead toward the end of a brainstorming session
I feel it would be better to take a break from brainstorming for said people that feel brain dead towards the end. Personally, I would have trouble wanting to brainstorm more.
place them in a table, with the original words at the top of each column and the alternatives you have brainstormed arranged in columns below them.
Nothing wrong with this one, but I found it more complicated than the other techniques in this article.
20 to 30 assumptions
What happens if you generate more? Is there a reason why you shouldn't generate more than that?
By temporarily focusing on really bad ideas, it frees them to relax and have fun. Laughter is also a stepping stone to helping people generate surprising or unexpected connections – the basis of most humor. Plus, Mattimore points out, it’s the nature of our brains, when thinking about one idea, to simultaneously consider its opposite.
This feels similar to the pessimist/optimist kind of ideation mentioned in the YouTube videos. It does seem a lot easier to generate ideas on what not to do, and similar to wishing, build up the steps towards a great idea. This sounds like an extremely useful way to brainstorm without the pressures of coming up with a great idea immediately.
If you’re trying to generate new product ideas, select images that are broadly evocative of your product category. Be sure to include some random or irrelevant images in your selections as well, because sometimes those types of stimuli can lead to the most creative solutions.
This is perfect for visual learners and can definitely get ideas going. Usually when I'm trying to brainstorm I just see what comes up in my head but using images could help get to where I want faster. I'll try this out for sure.
Mattimore points out there are no “rules” to using this technique. Don’t be afraid to let the keyword prompts take you far afield from them. And don’t be concerned if you generated an idea that only uses two of the three words. The point of semantic intuition is simply to get you to think differently.
This kind of technique never occurred as something to do with peers. It seems like another way to bounce ideas off of one another and I like how there aren't any particular set of "rules."
This helps people who may not be able to think of any new ideas and may help them to see the ideas their colleagues have written in a new light. It also helps the team generate a wider diversity of ideas.
Bouncing ideas off of peers and colleagues does seem to be the most effective and flexible way of ideation. Two brains are better than one, if you have the opportunity to. "Triggered brainwalking" was not a term I would have thought of to classify this at all.
you start out by asking for the impossible and then brainstorm ways to make it, or at least some approximation of it, possible. The first step is to make your wishes tangible.
This is my most used form of ideation, making what is seemingly possible into something of reality. Although the term "wishing" might seem out of reach, it certainly can become tangible if you write out the proper steps.
The bottom line is that opportunity redefinition is a powerful way to help you remove “blinders” you didn’t even realize were restricting your vision. In other words, it enables you to see a wider range of possibilities than you may have ever considered before.
Opportunity redefinition sets up a great foundation for expanding your range of possibilities. This style of ideation is rather new to me, so I will definitely apply it to my next brainstorming.
By questioning assumptions in an enterprise during every point of the product or service development process, we can entertain new ideas and possibilities, that can help us to overcome worst scenarios arising against business success
I like this idea! Successful ideas and projects should always be questioned, and being able to answer those questions is what leads to amazing outcomes.
Most industries have an orthodoxy – a set of deeply-held, unspoken beliefs that everyone follows when it comes to “how we do things around here.”
I never knew the official term for this idea, and I think it especially is true at any company to have those "unspoken beliefs."