Creative Ideation Techniques

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Across
  1. 3. Creating new ideas or improving existing concepts.
  2. 7. Solving problems through an indirect and creative approach.
  3. 11. Willingness to adapt or change thinking patterns.
  4. 13. A strong desire to know or learn something.
  5. 14. Involves Reverse Thinking and Worst Possible Idea techniques
  6. 15. The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something creative.
  7. 16. Trying out new ideas or methods.
  8. 18. Generating ideas spontaneously without judgment or constraint.
  9. 19. The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.
  10. 20. Creating a visual narrative, like a comic strip, to explore the evolution of an idea or actions over time.
  11. 22. Individuals generate ideas alone, then discuss and prioritize them as a group, ensuring equal participation.
  12. 23. Being receptive to new ideas or arguments.
  13. 25. Combining ideas into a coherent whole.
  14. 26. Asking the same question five times to explore cause-and-effect relationships underlying a problem, leading to unexpected insights.
  15. 27. The formation of ideas or concepts.
  16. 28. Participants write down ideas on paper and pass it for others to build upon, ensuring a collaborative ideation process.
  17. 31. Forming mental images to solve problems or create new ideas.
  18. 32. The ability to form mental images or concepts of things not present.
  19. 33. Involves challenging conventional thinking by considering the opposite of usual assumptions.
  20. 35. Encourages looking at a problem from six perspectives: facts, emotions, negative judgment, positive judgment, creativity, and process.
  21. 36. Exploring many possible solutions and thinking in multiple directions.
Down
  1. 1. A diagram used to visually organize information, often for brainstorming.
  2. 2. Drawing parallels between a problem and something entirely different to gain new insights.
  3. 4. Working with others to produce or create something.
  4. 5. A sketching exercise where participants sketch eight ideas in eight minutes, fostering rapid idea development.
  5. 6. A visual brainstorming technique that starts from a central idea and expands outward to more in-depth sub-themes.
  6. 8. Focuses on generating questions about a new product or process to explore different facets and implications.
  7. 9. Deliberately thinking of the worst ideas, which can spark creativity and lead to viable solutions when refined.
  8. 10. Thinking about things that are not concrete or tangible.
  9. 12. A detailed, multi-layered structure of ideas with a central concept surrounded by eight components, which can further expand.
  10. 17. Introducing a random stimulus into brainstorming to provoke new ideas and challenge conventional patterns.
  11. 21. Similar to speed dating, it involves rapid idea exchanges with multiple partners in brief sessions.
  12. 24. The willingness to undertake tasks that involve danger or uncertainty, often in the pursuit of innovation.
  13. 29. An acronym that prompts designers to think differently about an existing product or problem.
  14. 30. The quality of being novel or unusual.
  15. 34. Understanding something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.