Idea Generation - Visualisation

Challenge and Selection  I chose to use a visualisation tool called Crazy8s in order to quickly capture and analyse group  ideas.    We needed to design the UI of a website where doctors could easily translate medical notes into  valid complex medical concepts consisting of our graph of medical knowledge.    Application  It involves several rounds of quick drawing in a group where each person folds a piece of paper  so that there are 8 boxes and every minute (for 8 minutes) sketches how they think it should  look. Next everyone sticks them on the wall and presents their ideas without discussion. The  final round is 5 mins on one sketch and then everyone presents their final idea. At the end  everyone has 3 dots with which they can stick on any of the designs in order to help with  prioritisation of which idea to explore further.    Insight  This method was extremely successful in understanding everyone’s different ideas about how to  solve this problem. The two round strategy encouraged people to take from each other’s first  designs and incorporate them into the final design. Finally the voting at the end, enabled  everyone to feel like they had a voice and so the final design was chosen and everyone could  get on board as they had been part of the process. This is the key to the “What if” and “What  Wows” part of the design thinking process.    Approach  Next time I would like to develop the idea that was taken and build a more substantial prototype.  It could still be in paper and show it to people to get their reactions. I think we should also keep  in mind the previous design that did not get through and potentially incorporate features from  those where it makes sense.


Idea Generation - Visualisation Challenge and Selection I chose to use a visualisation tool called Crazy8s in order to quickly capture and analyse group ideas . We needed to design the UI of a website where doctors could easily translate medical notes into valid complex medical concepts consisting of our graph of medical knowledge . Application It involves several rounds of quick drawing in a group where each person folds a piece of paper so that there are 8 boxes and every minute ( for 8 minutes ) sketches how they think it should look . Next everyone sticks them on the wall and presents their ideas without discussion . The final round is 5 mins on one sketch and then everyone presents their final idea . At the end everyone has 3 dots with which they can stick on any of the designs in order to help with prioritisation of which idea to explore further . Insight This method was extremely successful in understanding everyone ’s different ideas about how to solve this problem . The two round strategy encouraged people to take from each other ’s first designs and incorporate them into the final design . Finally the voting at the end , enabled everyone to feel like they had a voice and so the final design was chosen and everyone could get on board as they had been part of the process . This is the key to the “ What if ” and “ What Wows ” part of the design thinking process . Approach Next time I would like to develop the idea that was taken and build a more substantial prototype . It could still be in paper and show it to people to get their reactions . I think we should also keep in mind the previous design that did not get through and potentially incorporate features from those where it makes sense .