Brainstorming Resources
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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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