Portal: Design Research Techniques
Reading Time: < 1 minute Innovation Portal.
How-Might-We Questioning
Reading Time: 3 minutes How-Might-We Questioning is a format to reframe issues in opportunity statements to spark creativity, brainstorming, and innovation: How might we make our entrance more inviting that our visitors feel more at home. How-Might-We Questions are a simple way to improve your products or services. In design thinking, HMW questions open up to Ideation sessions where you explore ideas, which can help you solve your design challenge in an innovative way. In product development and engineering, How-Might-We Questioning is a simple way to improve products or services.
Lightning Decision Jam
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a format for group decisioning. All open, unstructured discussion are replaced with a clear, timeboxed structured process. LDJ has its background in design thinking.
Design Thinking – What it is & Why it Works
Reading Time: 6 minutes Design thinking started as a human-centric framework for problem solving, focusing not on single objects but on systems instead: the single object and it's context of use as well the user. In this sense design is more than look-n-feel. Steve Jobs phrased it in his own extreme consequence: "Design is how it works.". This attitude leads to Design Thinking as modern form of product design.
Portal: Innovation Portal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Innovation Portal.
Ramon Vullings & Marc Heleven: 27 Creativity & Innovation Techniques
Reading Time: < 1 minute 27 Creativity & Innovation Techniques. 27 creativity & innovation tools is an overview of various commonly used techniques in creativity, innovation, research & development processes. All in one-pager. The techniques are grouped by Diverging & Converging techniques, Open & Closed challenges / problems, Products & Services situations, Individual & Group techniques.
Portal: Innovation Games
Reading Time: < 1 minute Innovation Games are collaboration frameworks that you can play online or in-person with your colleagues and customers. Innovation Games help you to accurately predict what customers want, need, and will pay for.
Portal: Gamestorming
Reading Time: < 1 minute Gamestorming - A toolkit for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers. Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world.
Board of Innovation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Board of Innovation. Belgium Innovation consultant company shares free, hands-on, easy-to-use, actionable innovation tools.
Portal: DESIGNPILOT-Creativity Techniques
Reading Time: < 1 minute DesignPilot. Web application (Android, iOS, Windows) created by Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg, Fakultät Design. The TOOLBOX is public accessible web space with currently 172 tools for product development and 77 creativity techniques (in German only).