Tool details

Brain writing

Generating ideas with the team through words instead of drawings and presentations.

Tool category:

Ideation
Generate

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When to use

When there is a need to develop ideas with a team that doesn’t feel comfortable with either drawing or presenting.

Why you should

Some people don’t feel comfortable
with drawing or presenting, this might hinder their idea generation.

What you get

Many solutions to the problem, co-produced by a team.

Steps to take

1

As moderator, organise the participants and define the problem.

2

Each participant brainstorms 3 solutions in 2 minutes in written form.

3

After 2 minutes, ask participants to pass the sheet to the left, the sheets circulate.

4

The participants build upon existing suggestions writing their own ideas underneath the previous one.

5

Repeat as many times as there are people.