SVD 1 Idea Generation
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This document provides tips and exercises for cultivating random curiosity. It encourages the reader to get outside of their normal routine by getting their head out of their screen, changing daily habits, carrying a pencil and paper, taking pictures, sketching, eavesdropping on conversations, and asking people to tell stories. The reader is prompted to make lists of their interests, skills, past jobs, available resources and potential income sources in order to generate new ideas. Overall, the document promotes developing a beginner's mindset and negative capability to help find unexpected solutions through play, patterns and storytelling.
SVD 1 Idea Generation
- 1. Cultivate Random Curiosity Simple Venture ➡ Design ➡ ➡ Get your head out of your screen Change your routine Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories Paul Sturrock paul.sturrock@gmail.com @PSturrock www.simpleventuredesign.com ! http://www.flickr.com/photos/13902049@N00/5652405755/ el bidule cbdn
- 2. Who are You? Why are you here?
- 3. Rules of the Road Cultivate Random Curiosity Participate & Collaborate Constructive challenge ➡ Get your head out of your screen Move your projects forward ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories flickr.com dimitris papazimorous
- 5. Cultivate Random Curiosity An Experiment... ! ! ! ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! Read story (10 minutes) ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists One sentence to describe business ➡ from article based on idea Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop What is the first thing you would do to pursue➡Ask idea (getting the for stories information doesn t count) 25
- 6. “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said ‘a faster horse’” -Henry Ford
- 9. Acceptance Fashionable Achievement Adventure Be Attractive Authority Autonomy Beauty Service Challenge Unpredictable Comfort Commitment Compassion Contribution Cooperation Courtesy Creativity Dependability Duty Ecology Excitement Fitness Flexibility Generosity Authenticity Helpfulness Integrity Independence Hard Work Knowledge Leisure Moderation Non-Conformity Pleasure Popularity Realism Responsibility Service Simplicity Tradition Social Service Wealth Sociability Travel Competition Influence Informality Structure Flexibility Learning Recognition Stress Teamwork Location Variety Prestige Honour Loyalty Expertise Cultivate Random Curiosity Loyalty Family Get your head Fame of your screen out ➡Forgiveness Friendship Fun Change your routine ➡ Religion Growth Health ➡Turn up! Hope Humility Humour Carry your Intimacy ➡Inner Peace pencil Justice ➡Make lists Mastery Love Mindfulness ➡Take Pictures Order Openness Passion ➡Sketch Power Purpose Rationality ➡Eavesdrop Stability Risk Security Solitude Spirituality Tolerance ➡Ask for stories
- 10. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories List 15 things you like to do
- 11. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories List 15 things you are good at
- 12. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories What have you been paid to do?
- 13. Cultivate Random Curiosity List 15 things you have of your screen ➡ Get your head out access ➡Change your routine to that can be used to make ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil money without lists ➡Make selling them ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories
- 14. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories
- 15. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch List 5 potential income sources for these ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories What is on more than one list?
- 16. Wicked Problems 1. Multiple stakeholders with different views 2. Can’t be concretely defined 3. Constraint and resources change 4. No stopping rule 5. Problem is never definitively solved
- 18. Tell me a story about one of them 18
- 19. “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” Albert Einstein
- 21. Analytic Innovation Interpretive Innovation Vague problem Fuzzy goals Unknown solution Ongoing Conversational
- 22. - John Maeda
- 24. Negative Capability “at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” John Keats
- 25. Look with Beginner’s Mind Photo Credit: www.flickr.com VinothChandar creativecommons.org
- 26. Cultivate Random Curiosity ➡ Get your head out of your screen ➡Change your routine ➡Turn up! ➡Carry your pencil ➡Make lists ➡Take Pictures ➡Sketch ➡Eavesdrop ➡Ask for stories
- 27. -‐Play Constraint Games -‐What’s broken? -‐Look for pa?erns 27
- 29. What’s your pencil? curiosity passion values dreams skills & resources scratch your itch practice, practice, practice 29
- 31. What is the Story? - Who? - Why? - Obstacles - Alternative - Before - Magic - After
- 32. Summary - Take the wickedness out of problems Cultivate Negative Capability Practice like an Artist Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories