Design GamesFun Brainstorming Tools

Idea 1

Idea 3

Idea 2

Brainstorming a design problemis sometimes hard to do...

Very useful for a pitch

They can be used for all types of design work:

Websites, intranets, business applications, products and services.

Design games

Design games may provide outputs like:

Generating ideasIdentifying functionality

...

Generating Ideas

Generating Ideas

Design Game 1: Five SketchesDuration: Up to 1 hrGroup structure: Small teamsOutcome: Idea generation, teams learn to work togetherPreparation needed?: YesWho to involve: Design team

How to play ?

Limited time

?Specific

Problem

X5 X5 X5

sharedcombinated

iterated

Player 1 Player 2 Player 3

Generating Ideas

Design Game 2: Reverse ItGroup structure: Small teamsOutcome: Idea generation, breaking a 'stuck' design problemPreparation needed?: NoWho to involve: Design team, users

How to play ?

?Problem

?Opposite

Problem

Player 1

Player 2

Player 3

“how to increase

conversion ?”

“how to decrease

conversion ?”

Solutions

...

Solutions

...

Solutions

...

It also helps the team think about what a successful solution looks like, because the opposite is now clearer.

?Problem

Generating Ideas

Design Game 3: 4CsDuration: Up to 1 hrGroup structure: Small teamOutcome: Look at a problem in a new wayPreparation needed?: YesWho to involve: Design team

How to play ?

C CCC

Components: What are the parts of the problem or object

Characteristics: What are characteristics of the outcome - what does it look like.

Challenges: What are the key issues that affect the problem

Characters: Who is involved.

Preparation

Dividing the problem into 4Cs

or similar...

Components Caracterisitics

Challenges Characters

Generating Ideas

Design Game 3: 4CsDuration: Up to 1 hrGroup structure: Small teamOutcome: Look at a problem in a new wayPreparation needed?: YesWho to involve: Design team

How to play ?

C CCC

The Game

Components Caracterisitics

Challenges Characters

Team 1

Components

Describes

the problem

Caracterisitics

Team 2

Describes

the problem

Describes

the problem

Describes

the problem

CharactersChallenges

breaks the problem down and see it in a new way.

Team 3 Team 4

Identifying Functionality

Key features (3-5 features only)

Constraints or requirements (again, just a short list)

Identifying Functionality

Design Game 4: Design The BoxOutcome: Feature elicitationWho to involve: Design team, users, stakeholdersDuration: 1hr+Preparation needed?: YesGroup structure: Small teams

How to play ?

?Problem

Designing a service

Name of the service

A tagline describing the service

Preparation

Real BoxN

ame

of t

he s

ervi

ce

Identifying Functionality

Outcome: Feature elicitationWho to involve: Design team, users, stakeholdersDuration: 1hr+Preparation needed?: YesGroup structure: Small teams

How to play ?

The Game

Team 1

Limited time

?Problem

Designing a service

Team 2 Team 3

Box 2 Box 3

In doing so, teams identify key features and selling points for the product.

short presentation

short presentation

short presentation

Box 1

Design Game 4: Design The Box

Identifying Functionality

Design Game 5: Design The HPDuration: 30 mins - 1 hourOutcome: List of key featuresPreparation needed?: YesWho to involve: UsersGroup structure: Small teams

How to play ?

?Problem

Short Brief

Team 1

Limited time

Team 2 Team 3

short presentation

short presentation

short presentation

Identifying key content chunks and priority information

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