Elaborate>Ideate Stage

• Grab a sheet of paper and a pen or pencil.
  
  

• Review your problem statement and the insights you gathered during the Empathy stage.
  
  

• Use the Ideate Principles as your guide:

  • One conversation at a time: Stay focused on one idea or solution at a time.

  • Encourage wild ideas: Don't hold back! Let your imagination run wild and think outside the box.

  • Defer judgment: Suspend judgment and avoid criticizing or evaluating ideas at this stage.

  • Build on the ideas of others: Take inspiration from others' ideas and use them as a starting point for your own.

• Start sketching as many possible solutions to your problem statement as you can. Remember, quantity over quality at this stage.
  
  

• Embrace the concept of "building upon" to enhance collaboration and idea building:

  • Accept every idea: Embrace all ideas, even if they seem unconventional or different.

  • Use "yes, and" instead of "yes, but": Build upon ideas by adding your own contributions and expanding on them.

  • Make your partner look 'awesome': Collaborate with your classmates to make their ideas even better by adding improvements and enhancements.
    
    

• Don't worry about making your sketches perfect or polished. The goal is to generate as many ideas as possible.

• Take an image of your sketches, upload to your Google Drive, then insert into your Design Thinking workbook. Make sure images are JPG or PNG. If you need to convert them from HEIC, use this converter.
  
  

• Fill at least two pages of ideas for full credit.

Fill all three pages with different solutions. Remember, quantity over quality!