Solo Ideation
by Anthony Hobday
Introduction
Mindsets
- Everything is a remix
- Functional fixedness is a problem
- Impossible is not a problem
- Judgement free
- Mechanics over inspiration
- Perspective is powerful
- Quantity over quality
Methods
- Abstract the problem
- Analogy
- Challenge assumptions
- Come back later
- Competitor analysis
- Crazy 8s
- How would they do it?
- Mind mapping
- Mission impossible
- Pattern knowledge
- Provocation
- Random word
- Reverse thinking
- Sketching
- Storyboarding
Sources