Brain sketching
A few quick, playful exercises at the beginning of idea generation both open up creativity and lighten the mood in the room ahead of upcoming exercises.
A few quick, playful exercises at the beginning of idea generation both open up creativity and lighten the mood in the room ahead of upcoming exercises.
A creative exercise early in idea generation with the aim of expanding mindsets early on with simple means and quickly get ideas down on paper without performance anxiety. Good for creativity and a dose of playfulness in your development work.
A few quick, playful exercises at the beginning of idea generation both open up creativity and lighten the mood in the room ahead of upcoming exercises. Quick exercises also mean less pressure on "being able to draw", especially for those who are more used to this way of working. By doing some exercises individually and then finishing in a group, it opens up for more group exercises after this one.
As a warm-up exercise when you come up with ideas. Before When you start, you should have landed in a needs picture, that is, done the investigative work and landed in a question for which you want to come up with a solution.
After this exercise are you ready to move on to more focused idea generation exercises where you, for example, challenge thoughts and ideas by seeing the challenge from different perspectives. What suggestion would your grandmother have? How would a 7-year-old think about this? How would an individual with impaired vision have wanted to solve the challenge?
Fryes, time and content can of course adapted after challenge. If you want to see an example of this happening, you can download a version at Brain sketching which we ourselves have carried out here below.
If you conduct a digital workshop or sprint, you can of course use this exercise there as well. Do the exercise as described here, or why not use a common digital surface on a whiteboard or similar? This definitely creates a greater focus on the playful as it can be a challenge to draw with a mouse/touch pad.
Digital focus or not, this is an exercise that can be completely reshaped to suit your needs. A few things that we are happy to send with in the planning of this.
It may feel tempting to increase the time for the exercises. However, keep in mind that part of the effect comes from just drawing quickly and going by gut feeling and the ideas that first appear. With more time we tend to become more thoughtful and question our ideas, which is not the purpose of this exercise.
Feel free to try different layouts on this! Could a question be "How could this solution look like in 1980?". Is there anything we could bring from that time, now in a modern twist? Ask yourself what is central to your particular challenge.
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