Random Object Creativity Technique — Think Jar Collective

Reversing Assumptions Technique — Think Jar Collective

Think Jar Collective contributor and creativity expert Michael Michalko shares a technique to challenge our own assumptions and in the process spark new thinking.

Watch and Link Disparate Ideas — Think Jar Collective

An important skill to develop to enhance thinking creatively is to be able to link disparate ideas. This article lays out some provocations to spark creative collisions for innovation

Design Strategies

Draw a card to spark creative thinking

Combinatorial Creativity

Combinatorial creativity recombines existing ideas to spark novel, valuable innovations in cognition, AI, and design.

Creative Computing Group by @tgoerke.bsky.social — Grain

Let's start a group at CODIP to explore creative computing. Let's not start by defining creativity nor computing. It would be a trap. Let's collect artifacts instead. Images, text, thoughts,...

The Evolution of Creativity

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Worst Possible Idea

There are many brainstorming methods (including bodystorming, p.30, brainwriting 6-3-5, p.32 and group passing, p.82) that are each useful in different circumstances. However, sometimes it can be difficult for people in a group setting to generate ideas. This may be because people are too stuck in current ways of thinking, or they might be concerned about being judged by others for the ideas they propose. Giving people the permission to come up with their worst possible ideas creates a playful, safe environment and helps to get a brainstorming session off to a good start. Ideas might build on each other during the process, and it is indeed possible to generate an idea or way of thinking about the problem that can be fed back into the design process. Managers that have used this method with their teams report that it outperforms by far any other brainstorming method (Dorf, 2017), largely because of its ability to energise a room and enable lateral thinking.

Essential Randomness — Ms Boba's Emporium of Weirdness

Ms Boba's experimental website. Open for business while construction is ongoing.

What Makes Us Smart?

Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...

The Myth of the Instant Cake Mix

How to think about creative tooling in the new world of generative AI

Great creative work is usually the product of a single person

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

What is random generation?

I wanted to write this as a sequel to "What is a property?" where I would talk about how Property-Based Testing libraries generate random structures, don't worry, I'll still do that! But I realized that without talking about randomness in computers, the writing would be incomplete. So the first part of this article will go into a core problem that we consider "solved" in PBT, which is designing good random number generators, with the latter part talking about implementing complex random data generators on top of such RNGs.

mata.garden

The garden is where we grow seeds of ideas. Either coming through a creative thought or a technological development we consider these live, multi-dimensional, interactive sketches or maquettes. It's important to have ideas that have no specific functional end but are there only to evolve and mutate into others. This is our place to do that.

Ideation with Generative AI—in Consumer Research and Beyond

Abstract The use of generative AI (genAI) in consumer research is rapidly evolving, with applications including synthetic data generation, data analysis, and more. However, their role in creative ideation—a cornerstone of consumer research—remains underexplored. Drawing on the human creativity literature, we propose that ideation with genAI is facilitated by its productivity and semantic breadth, which are psychologically analogous to the dual pathways of persistence and flexibility in human ideation. Further, we distinguish between the utility of genAI as a key ideator versus humans as key ideator, conceptualized through the genAI ideation roles of Designer and Writer and of Interviewer and Actor. While genAI excels in generating incremental improvements, its potential for groundbreaking innovation could be unlocked by leveraging its ability to prompt human creativity. This article advances the theoretical and practical understanding of genAI in ideation for consumer research, offering numerous practical guidelines for integrating generative AI into research while emphasizing human–AI collaboration to achieve radical insights.

(PDF) The Four-C Model of Creativity: Culture and Context

PDF | In this chapter, we highlight the Four-C Model of creativity, which traces creative development from mini-c (personal creativity) to little-c... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate