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Forced Analogy

Category:
The Design Exchange
Type:
Method
People:
1 User(s),   1 Collaborator(s)
Characteristic:

Ideate      Activity Type: Talking, Activity Type: Writing, Complexity: Simple, Desired scope of impact: Feature level, Desired scope of impact: Product level, Desired scope of impact: System level, Group Size: Individual, Group Size: Small, Participants: Core team, Participants: Individual, Purpose: Prepare mindset, Time needed: Quick meeting

Date:
March 8, 2015
Summary:
In Forced Analogy, participants generate a random list of things-animals, objects, or people and write them on index cards. For each item, participants write the qualities or attributes. Then shuffle the cards and distribute them randomly. They then use the cards to develop analogies to the problem...

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