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