Generate new ideas through various ideation techniques such as brainstorming, design thinking, mind-mapping and SCAMPER.
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- The surprising habits of original thinkers by TED How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world.
- UX ideations: A technique for producing ideas by Vaexperience This video is based on ideas from the book "A technique for producing ideas" by James Webb Young.
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- Creativity: Generate ideas in greater quantity and quality by Stefan Mumaw This course challenges preconceived notions about creativity and provides valuable tools that will unlock this skill to help you generate better ideas faster.
- Ideation for leaders by Becki Saltzman Leaders can learn specific techniques for developing the company culture, processes, and systems to encourage and allow your team to openly share their concepts and ideas with your organization.
- Seven rules for running a better brainstorm by Stephen Gates How to ensure the brainstorming process is an effective one. This video is part of the Running a Design Business: Leading a Creative Team course.
- What is ideation by Chris Nodder This video is from the UX Insights Weekly series. It introduces ideation techniques that is used in user experience design.
eLearning
- Creativity, innovation and change Our lives are being disrupted by pandemics, global warming, wars, political chaos, and technological innovations. We must prepare for an unpredictable and unknown future - and this is the goal of the course on Creativity, Innovation and Transformation (CIT).
- Design thinking: Ideation, iteration and communication The focus of this course from Rochester Institute of Technology is on ideation techniques which are part of the design thinking process.
- Idea development: Create and implement innovative ideas This course offered by The University of Queensland, Australia, focuses on innovative ideas for entrepreneurs. Some topics include: types of innovations and their market impact; importance of taking action, knowledge, learning and resources in the creation of innovative ideas; and how entrepreneurs make strategic decisions under uncertainty.
Web Resources
- 10 best free mind mapping tools Article by tech reviewer Hongkiat contains a list of some of the best mind mapping apps for individual and collaborative brainstorming.
- Better brainstorming: Focus on questions, not answers, for breakthrough insights This article from Harvard Business Review shares about how the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises can vastly improve the search for new ideas
- The better mind map: A quick technique to organise thinking and boost creativity The Better Mind Map is different to a traditional mind map as it was developed specifically for organising information to inform generating ideas. The Better Mind Map summarises considerations for a particular design challenge on a single page, and rather than random associations, there five suggested topic areas to consider.
- Brainwriting vs. brainstorming: It’s time for your team to make the change Brainwriting is an ideation technique that overcomes challenges involved in brainstorming. This article includes information about online collaboration tools as well as a discussion of when brainwriting may be more effective than brainstorming.
- Introduction to the essential ideation techniques which are the heart of design thinking This article by Interaction Design contains an overview of the best ideation techniques as well as when and why to use them.
- This is design thinking This website compiles information about the impact of design thinking on organizations, how and where it can be applied successfully, as well as why and why it fails. Contains interviews, case studies and opinion pieces.
- What is design thinking? A comprehensive beginner's guide In this guide by CareerFoundry, you will get a detailed definition of Design Thinking, illustrate exactly what the process involves, and underline why it matters. Ideation is step 3 of the Design Thinking process.
- What is ideation – and how to prepare for ideation sessions Ideation is the process where you generate ideas and solutions through sessions such as Sketching, Prototyping, Brainstorming, Brainwriting, Worst Possible Idea, and a wealth of other ideation techniques. In this article, you will learn some processes and guidelines to facilitate and prepare for productive and effective ideation sessions.
- Why most brainstorms don't work The history of how brainstorming was started, its limitations and how to tweak a brainstorming session.
Journal Articles
- Developing an ideation method to be used in cross-functional inter-organizational teams by means of action design research Published in Research in Engineering Design, this study aims to create an ideation method that will generate a high number of good quality ideas from cross-functional teams. It was found that individual phases of rotational and gallery viewing combined with phases of verbal group interaction was created more useful ideas than well-established ideation methods.
- General and domain-specific contributions to creative ideation and creative performance This study examined two views of creativity, one positing that there is a general creative capacity or talent and the other that creativity is domain-specific. It was found that knowledge, motivation, and personality were significantly correlated with the four creativity measures and that creativity has both general and domain-specific contributions.
- Physical versus digital sticky notes in collaborative ideation This article published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work compares the pros and cons of physical and digital sticky notes in collaborative ideation.