1. Generating Ideas
Techniques Strategies

2. Generating Ideas
• Brainstorming
– Redesign using brainstorming techniques
(mind-maps, thought showers…) the following
computer mouse

3. Generating Ideas
• Adaptation
– Use the scamper-sheets to come up with new
ideas for a computer mouse

4. SCAMPER
• SUBSTITUE
• COMBINE
• ADAPT
• MODIFY, MAGNIFY, MINIMISE
• PUT TO ANOTHER USE
• ELIMINATE
• REVERSE

5. Generating Ideas
• Attribute Listing
– List the attributes for one of the computer mouse
below

6. Generating Ideas
• Analogy
– Think of similar objects which could be used
to create new designs for the computer
mouse
– List how and why?