Methods

Bodystorming is a physical ideation technique where teams act out user scenarios in real or simulated environments to uncover design insights.

Brainstorming is a collaborative ideation method where teams rapidly generate a high volume of ideas without judgment to unlock creative solutions.

Brainwriting is a silent, written ideation technique where participants generate and build on ideas independently, giving every voice equal weight.

Concept Poster distills a product or service idea into a single-page visual summary for rapid stakeholder communication and comparison.

Frame a focused Design Challenge using "How Might We" questions to align your team on the right problem before jumping into solutions.

Use Draw a Toast as a warm-up exercise to unlock visual thinking, reveal diverse mental models, and prepare teams for collaborative design work.

Giga-Mapping creates large-scale visual maps of complex systems, revealing hidden relationships and dependencies across multiple layers.

Work-Breakdown Structure decomposes projects into a hierarchy of manageable deliverables and tasks for clear scope, scheduling, and tracking.

Inspiration from Outside breaks creative blocks by studying solutions from unrelated industries and domains to find transferable design patterns.

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a hands-on workshop method where participants build 3D models with LEGO bricks to explore ideas and solve complex problems.

Lotus Blossom is a structured brainstorming technique using expanding 3x3 grids to systematically explore ideas radiating from a central concept.

A Mind Map is a radial visual diagram that organizes ideas around a central concept, revealing connections and hierarchies for brainstorming.