UXPoland 2014 talk about classical brainstorming problems, some exercises to keep your mind in shape and collaborative warming-up sessions

1. Playful design

2. Nikita Efimov
n.efimov@uxpresso.net
Yuri Vedenin
y.vedenin@uxpresso.net

3. Brainstorming
problems
Collaborative
warming-up sessions
Mind exercises
Our plan

4. Badges, achievements???

5. 2 issues with brainstorms
1) Lack of ideas
2) Nobody participates

6. Lack of ideas

7. In the middle of the workday

8. Left vs Right

9. 9 dotes
4 lines
16 dots
6 lines
Ready to try?

10. 9 dots
4 lines
16 dots
6 lines
Results…

11. Train hard!

12. Nobody really participates

13. But… why?
- This is booooring
- Blah-blah-blah again
- I’ll say smth stupid
- Hmm, I need to think about it
+ 100500 other reasons

14. And the result is…

15. Patterns in my head…

17. Guess Who?

18. Blue

19. Yellow

20. Orange

21. Red

22. Blue

23. Purple

24. White

25. Black

26. Orange

27. Pink

28. The biggest enemy of
innovation is common sense“
Sir Ken Robinson

29. Crisis of ideas occurs exactly when the
designer sets a goal to come up with
something original and unusual
“
Artemy Lebedev

30. Train your lateral thinking

31. r
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32. 0
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33. death life

34. T H I N K !

35. Two heads are better than one

36. 4 levels of brainstorm
1 2 3 4

37. 1 - Warm-up

38. 3 rules of any warming-up
1) Warming-up subject = brainstorm
subject
2) No BAD and GOOD ideas
3) Playful and diverse

39. Antiphrases
• Nothing that dims is not a silver;
• Worse earlier than forever;
• Good history stays slow;
• Two pears at night brings the killer closer.

40. Empathy

41. Drawing doodles
1. Draw everything that comes to
your mind (2-3 mins);
2. Pass the result to the person
sitting left to you;
3. Continue drawing what they
passed to you (2-3 mins);
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you
get your original paper back.
+ add music to the taste

42. Use both hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZI3OCbI4LM

43. If you miss your warming-up…

44. 4 levels of brainstorm
warming-up “braindump"
feedback
session
improving
ideas

45. 6-to-1

46. Train hard
Warm-up
Fight to the
last

47. What you can read

48. Where you can play
http://www.gogamestorm.com
http://innovationgames.com
http://projectofhow.com

49. + google it!

51. We’ll be back!
Nikita Efimov
n.efimov@uxpresso.net
Yuri Vedenin
y.vedenin@uxpresso.net