Brainstorming Resources
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PRO TIP:
To extract any value in brainstorming, it’s essential to have psychological safety. Establishing the right conditions for your session will enable your team to be generative and explore beyond the obvious.DIVE DEEPER:
Find additional tips to help you avoid these common brainstorming pitfalls in IDEO U’s online course, Cultivating Creative Collaboration.Brainstorming Resource Library
Here you’ll find everything from design thinking toolkits to articles and podcast episodes on brainstorming and divergent thinking.
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Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate
Learn the core skills and mindsets of design thinking - online certificate
Advanced Design Thinking Certificate
Deepen your design thinking skills and practice - Online Course
From Ideas to Action
Learn to prototype, experiment, and iterate to move your ideas forward - Online Course
Cultivating Creative Collaboration
Tap into diverse perspectives to foster creative thinking - Online Course
Unlocking Creativity
Exercises to overcome the common barriers to creativity - Toolkits
Design Kit From IDEO.org
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design is a step-by-step guide that will get you solving problems like a designer. - Toolkits
IDEO Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit
This toolkit contains the process and methods of design along with the Designer’s Workbook, adapted specifically for the context of K-12 education. - Toolkits
IDEO’s Method Cards
A design tool that showcases methods to keep people at the center of our design process and help you explore new approaches and develop your own. - Article
Harvard Business Review—Better Brainstorming
Brainstorming for questions rather than answers makes it easier to push past cognitive biases and venture into uncharted territory. - Article
Harvard Business Review—Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong
Lessons from research on how to make the most of your brainstorming sessions. - article
IDEO: 4 Reasons Warm-Ups Will Fundamentally Change Your Work
Warm-ups are a breath—a moment to pause in days spent running continuously from list to thing to email. - article
IDEO: 5 Brainstorming Exercises for Introverts
Strategies for making brainstorming more introvert-friendly and helping everyone feel welcome and heard at work. - blog
IDEO U: 10 Activities To Generate Better Ideas
Practice these creative activities with your team today to get into a divergent mindset and generate lots of great new ideas. - blog
IDEO U: Divergent Thinking and the Innovation Funnel
Tips and techniques for getting your team into a generative mindset and moving from ideation to prototyping. - Article
QUARTZ: The Three Words That Make Brainstorming Sessions at Google, Facebook, and IDEO More Productive
A strategy to help you avoid common brainstorming pitfalls. - Blog
IDEO U: 5 Behaviors to Fuel More Play and Better Ideas
Play behaviors that are essential to any organization to increase employee satisfaction and performance. - article
IDEO: If You Can’t Have Fewer Meetings, Have Better Ones
Resources on making your next conference-room (zoom-room) gathering stand out—in a good way. - article
OpenIDEO: 6 Brainstorming Tips for Social Innovators and Beyond
Ways to brainstorm with your team in a more effective and inclusive way.
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