Playful Thinking

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— Free workshop presented by SAP —

Idea generation and value proposition creation is one of the most critical phase in the design process.

When we enter into the ideation phase of the design process, we all get into some kind of brainstorming sessions. This is one of the most critical phase of the design process where wildest of ideas need to come out. Sometimes due to lack of structure and moderation these sessions lead to dilution of ideas because of deep deliberations or criticism or reasons alike.

So if you have been in similar situations and want to learn how these sessions can be made more productive and that too in a very fun and playful way, this workshop would help you achieve this goal.

The workshop will introduce a board game that can be used to conduct any kind of idea generation or brainstorming sessions.

The board game has been specifically designed to overcome the following problems of such brainstorming session:

1. Brainstorm sessions turn into critique sessions.
2. Usual suspects say the usual things.
3. Feeling that “This idea will anyways get killed”.
4. No time constraint leads to deep deliberations, hence dilution of ideas.
5. A lot of use cases are missed out when the discussions get stuck around the popular use-cases.
6. Corner cases almost always are left out.

The workshop will be complete hands on, where you will be learning by doing.

It will be conducted in two parts. First the groups will try to do a typical brainstorm session and later play the game for brainstorming.

In the end, participants can compare the effectiveness of the game approach over traditional brainstorming sessions.