DM306: Week 4 Creative Methods

To use quick fire sketching techniques to come up with problem solution ideas or concepts.

To supervise the 6 participants

The aim is to present aspects of concepts in a structured and visual way to aid identification of optimal solutions.

<p>It solves complex problems by breaking them down into smaller (and simpler) sub-problems, providing a wide range of solutions for individual subproblems, and then combining sub-problem solutions to generate whole system solutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It involves 6 participants who sit in a group and are supervised by a facilitator/moderator. Each participant thinks up 3 ideas every 5 minutes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The key components include breaking down complex problems, providing a wide range of solutions, and combining sub-problem solutions to generate whole system solutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The aim is to present aspects of concepts in a structured and visual way to aid identification of optimal solutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creativity is the generation of new ideas, while innovation is the successful exploitation of these new ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Design shapes new ideas into functional, practical, and attractive solutions for customers and users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creativity is the bringing into being of something which didn't exist before, adding value to the product, service, or process being designed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To sell responsibly sourced fish with unique sauces, improve user experience, and differentiate their products in a crowded market.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through packaging and online content, making the products attractive to buyers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creativity is the ability to look at the world in new and different ways, find connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions for problems. It enables us to find hidden patterns in things and generate solutions for problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They believed that the key to success was to take an existing product, service, or concept and to take it up a level by applying a new vision and lots of creativity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To come up with new, structured, and organized solutions to the problem</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>take each different idea or solution from the central box and fill them into the center of the surrounding grids</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Lotus method is a structured brainstorming exercise used to expand on a central idea or problem. It adds an element of structure and order to brainstorming, unlike the classic chaotic process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Lotus method starts with a 3 by 3 grid in the center, surrounded by eight 3 by 3 grids. The problem is placed in the center box, and related solutions or themes are brainstormed and entered into the eight surrounding boxes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It adds focus and power to brainstorming, creates more quality ideas for products and services, helps discover innovative ways of improving businesses, and aids in solving problems in an easy and systematic way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Osborn's checklist is a simple tool for increasing the number of ideas to solve a problem. It aims to encourage creativity and divergence by adding order and structure to the brainstorming process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>SCAMPER is a derivation of Osborn's checklist, with very similar questions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Osborn's checklist works on the principle of addressing a particular focus, building on ideas that have already been suggested.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adapt, Modify, Magnify, Minify, Substituting or eliminating, Rearranging, Reversing, and Combining</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By getting inspiration from nature, other products, making things brighter, changing the look or material, emulating or simulating other products, and changing the features and properties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Magnify (making them bigger) and Minify (making them smaller); by making the product longer, inflatable, or changing its properties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By making things thicker, wider, taller, smaller, more economical, using less energy, less material, narrower, thinner, and so on.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By putting together or taking apart parts of the product, doing something by hand or semi-automatic, changing parts, having different layouts, turning things upside down, sorting them, and turning them backwards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mock-ups, models, and prototypes.</p> Signup and view all the answers