How do you generate ideas? Will you try the 10-For-10 exercise to cut through busy meetings? Let us know in the comments below! Check out our latest productivity video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oK1su9iddNDZdtI.html

@sheebad

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely impressed with every video you'll share... forget abt the technique (it's hands down always great), just the intent behind it is amazing... SHARING KNOWLEDGE... you'll are awesome!!!! I use this technique at work and i call it the Design Jam... ;) coz most of the time we'll be solving design problems... :)

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

@@sheebad Aww thanks Sheeba! Great to hear you're using these to effect too! Thanks for the kind words, more to come!

@benmacl

5 ай бұрын

1-2-4-All is a common method I use for generating ideas with big groups. I like this one alot.

Love this. Big fan of your vids - both the content and delivery. You're super bright, likeable and authentic. So many content creators are bright but agonising to watch because they try too hard. You've found magic.

love this type of hands-on video! Please continue making more.

GENIUS! Pure, simple, highly efficient, genius! I've SUBSCRIBED ALL! Thank you!

I love how Jonathan does presentations. He is one of my favorite. Your videos always help alot. Thank you for the video!

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

He's a born presenter!

This is very inspiring! I tried this yesterday with my team yesterday. As we all do remote work, so we used Figma to simulate the whole process. First, I created some sticky note templates, let the teammates create an empty page to write things on the notes. The Next step, the facilitator, which is me myself, collect all the notes and put them on the main page. (we call it brainstorm lobby). Now, the funny part is to put dots on the notes. We end up with accidentally someone else's dot, kinda messy but finally, it turned out well! Though it took us 40 minutes to complete the first session. Guess next time we can do better than this.

Great stuff. What makes these work best is a great cohesive culture. IE having fun working together or social times together etc. Because if the culture is quicksand, any collob session only highlights that. Im a HUGE fan of quick and sharp energetic meetings that don't last an hour. So much more gets done in very little time. Keep up the great work.

Love this. Quick, simple and effective! These videos are absolute gems!

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing Simon! Thanks a lot! Let us know if you implement this in your meetings!

Loving the camera effects! thank you for making it so easy to follow!

That's amazing!!! I have a very very shy class, I tried to encourage them in a debate before and it was a failure, they work much better in non-spoken tasks. I will definitely try this next time.

Thanks, enjoy these focused short meeting ideas

Amazing technique, I so appreciate your work

Great explanation and walk-through!

Loved this approach mainly because people sometimes try to impose their ideas. It's an elegant way to deal with this problem.

I am in love with this note and vote concept! It's stupid simple, you think that people would be using it more. I am a big fan of these workshop videos and really enjoy the case studies!

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Karlton! More workshops and case studies to come!

Awesome video!! Congratulations!!

This is a great video. I'm curious to know what are the other add on workshops to do in order to prioritize action and align on the work?

very clear!! thank you

Thanks guys, very useful!

Simple and AWESOME

I rally like the concept of working alone together. Eliminating pointless and endless discussions is key. You talked about the next step ( executing) and it would be awesome if you do the video for that workshop. 🙂🙂

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Gabriel! Thanks, it's a big concept here for sure! We'd be happy to do a short intro to it!

I love this video for brainstorming.

Excellent video

This is brilliant ... thank you. Where do you have the videos on prioritizing and execution?

Great video with great idea! I guess if everyone has less than 10 ideas, doing 5 for 5 would also do the job. Love your content!

Estoy agradecida con todas las noticias y mensajes positivos e inspirado, instructivo de gran calidad, bendiciones 🥰🙏

Love it. Efficiency baby!

Thank you formthis graet video , explain and ease of communication and information ❤

Super duper helpful...Thanks

Thank you!

Looove this!!

This was super helpful 💪🏾, can't wait to use this tactics to run a brainstorm session

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Let us know how it goes!

Very good. I am going to do it

I love it! (Maybe it was a bit long video, but it's a great tool ... thank you! 🧡

Thanks for another great workshop vid. This covers the "What" problem solving. I assume the execution video you mention at the end will cover the "How"? Would that be another how might we exercise?

@AJ&Smart I love this process and I have stared to use this via a Miro board. Two questions to help improve my process. When voting how many votes per participant is the right amount? is there a ratio you use. Too few may not yeild enough results, too many may get too many and take a lot longer. Question two. Instead of dots, in Miro is it better to use the vote feature? I got feedback from a participant that voting annonymously would prevent the influence of seeing something getting a lot of votes. What do you think about that?

Great job, the post'n'vote is a great alternative to endless circular misaligned discussion, plus it quickly aligns people with distributed embarrassingly parallel efficiency. My only question, how best to do it in ms-teams, google-meetings, zoom, etc.

Gotto love that King flip chart🔥

I like the recommendation of capturing ideas in a visual way and the dot voting to prioritise. However for me this structure is missing the core element of brainstorming - collaboration. Brainstorming meant to be a collaborative exercise that allows the participants to talk and build on each others ideas and inspires someone to come up with a truly new amazing insight that came from hearing what everyone else was saying earlier. This is how you end up with whole being greater than sum of the parts. I can easily see small adjustments to the meeting structure described in this video to make it collaborative. I would be interested to hear your views on this concern?

Hi Jonathan, this is very cool! I discovered your channel when researching the design sprint framework, and I was wondering if you have any advice on using the note-and-vote method in a Scrum sprint planning/backlog refinement setting. As a project manager, I often find myself struggling with getting through a list of stories planned for these sessions because the team tends to get carried away by design and technical detail discussions. I want to try to implement this method and eliminate these painful discussions, but I'm not sure what should the team be voting for in this case. Should I ask everyone to think of 10 ways to implement a certain story/ address a requirement, and then vote? Also, no talking means no Q&A. What if people have questions about their teammates’ ideas and don't feel confident to cast their vote before those questions are answered? Sorry about the length of this comment. Thanks for making these videos!

I just love the editing in these videos, hahaha.

I will be definitely trying this during a meeting.

Hey, that’s so cool! I actually used a brainstorming session that I „created“ in a project, based on the Sprint. I did exactly what you are presenting in this video, only, as a facilitator, I assigned 3 dots to each participant and picked only the first 3 that had the most votes. It was so easy and fast to make decisions! We decided like this on name, logo design, navigation, layout (it was a project in the Umschulung, we had to make a concept for a shopping center from zero)! This video is validating my method, great thing! 🤗

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Bianca! Amazing to hear! Great to see you're being much more focused with the voting too! How many people did you run it with though?

@bianca.darwish

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJSmart we were 10 people. :)

Nice! Straight fire! What kind of workshop would you use to build on this?

THANKS AJ !!

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Anytime!

I was looking for more videos about this and I recently made a comment of brainstorming but apparently, u already made it hahaha I came from this video "What Is Design Thinking? An Overview (2020)"

Really like the exercise and these kind of practical workshop activity vids are great. Question - with a less creative group, do you think cutting step 2 down to having them only choose their top 3-5 ideas would work?

@professorjre

4 жыл бұрын

This is a regular occurrence with groups that are hesitant to just throw ideas out there. Students, faculty member, administrators, ... anyone new to this way of working. Picking some number that’s still a stretch, but not overwhelming to the middle of the pack seems like a great way to modify this technique and make it more accessible to a less adventurous crowd. AND it would move their tolerance up a notch, especially if they saved a ton of time _and_ got good ideas to consider _and_ developed some consensus.

Very good video. Any thought on number of meeting participants? I assume 5-8 is would be optimal.

Very interested video

Perfecto!!!! 🙏🏽

Great to see LDJ adapted for brainstorming meetings! How about a link to download a pdf with the timing and voting details and a link to this video and related videos.

I like to add the task of each person reading out their ideas as they post them. If the team has the instruction to cluster like ideas as they post, it forces them to listen to the other ideas rather than just waiting for their turn to speak. Voting can then be done by cluster rather than individual post-it. Additionally, the reading out loud of ideas could stimulate other ideas (or "yes ands" related to an existing idea) and these could then be added to the wall. My 2c :)

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Jen, that's a really nice addition! We like that! Does it take much longer for the presentations?

@JenSutherland

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJSmart not much longer than the group having to read/decipher/understand the written post-its. And it creates a bit more excitement about the process and the ideas. If you extend the workshop to 30mins, you could do a formal "yes and" exercise for the top 3 ideas. Post the 3 ideas at the top of the board and then everyone adds new elements to the idea (1 per post-it), also reading out loud to the group.

This session was incredibly relatable and easy to understand ❤️ Question: Is it beneficial to include the client in brainstorming sessions? Could you also share the pros and cons of having the client participate?

Cool idea. I have a question How we can think a project requirement in product perspective ?

Thank you so much, I've really like this video, It's really help me. I'm already liked, subscribed and bell all alerts. please do more video like this.

Hey guys. Niceee videos you hace in your channel, im a big fan 😍😍. But i have a question. What is the font you use in your logo? Plz

Enjoyed this video. I need ways to apply something like this when brainstorming creative ideas for ads. Do you have any vids geared toward that topic? Something that will help us not get bogged down with tons of ideas that really dont fit the brand. The team I am on seem to take hours to come up with concepts, and I know we can run these meetings better. I welcome any suggestions. Thanks!

Cool technique. What is your experience with so many post its to vote on? Isn´t 3 minutes a bit tight? What do you think of "burning" a percentage of the notes before the actual voting happens?

Loved it! There are lot of ways but this one is just simple and productive. Thank you for sharing.

Hey! I love the exercise and the way you explain it. Thanks for sharing. I have a question about facilitators. I'm the only designer in the company I work so I usually be in charge of doing this workshops and methodologies. Is better to put me as the facilitator or should I chose another one in the team?

@chrishetem

9 ай бұрын

I realize your comment is 2 years old now but I'm also the only designer on my team and thought I'd share my perspective. You can both facilitate and participate - there just needs to be someone in charge of moving through exercises and keeping to time. Once you've done it a few times and your team gets the hang of it, you can ask others if they want to try facilitating as well. Just depends on what works for you and your team!

I like this. The only thing I wonder about is it seems to leave out ideas that came from other people's ideas. What do you do if people have more ideas that come up from reading the sticks?

Don't think it would be better to cluster the ideas before voting? to make it easier and avoid diluting votes in good ideas that are duplicated . Thanks for the video )

Interesting video, where can I buy that timer?

You are awesome

Hey, tnx for the video. had a question: how many dots does the facilitator give to each member?

You should share what you think your worst ideas are first, and make sure they are crazy and ridiculous, as an opener. It relaxes the team, they get a good laugh, and people can see that everyone can have some bad or crazy ideas. It might be more efficient in new teams as just an ice breaker...

Tips for taking this into a virtual world? I love this method, but my team is now remote!

Nice ideas! Anything magical about 10 ideas? For a group of 5 or 6 or more, that could be a lot to go through. Why not go with top 5 or even 3 to start with so people have to filter a tiny bit before the group engages?

I have a few questions: 1-) When people are sticking their own posts, all the participants are watching he(her) doing it? In this case, all participants will know which idea is from. This will kinda influence the result s. Or is it done ins a way participants cants see it? ==> Maybe turning the flipchart can partially solve this. 2-) When goes to voting I guess that the follow the crowd effect can happen.When people tend to choose the winner to follow. So hugely interfering on clear results. ===> Maybe giving each post-it a code (number), and each voter notes for himself on a papel the ideas numbers they liked the most and the number of its 10 votes desired for each. And after that the facilitator can put on board the voting results. Does that above makes any sense or have any value?

@vincestevenson

2 жыл бұрын

When it's time to put the stickies on the board, just ask participants to first put them on the table in a pile. Then the facilitator in front of the group mixes them up. Everybody should use the same colour pens so they can't identify one particular person's notes.

Fantastic Workshop! How duplicate solutions are managed? Are removed before the Vote session?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Great question Alessandro! Yeh you can simply double them up under each other.

How would you do this when doing a brainstorm online? Since there is (in my country at least) a rule now for not going to offices anymore but working from home. But we still want to do brainstorm sessions, and this idea sounds very handy! Any tips?

Hi guys! Thank you for the tip on this exercise. Would this exercise work for example in a meeting to discuss different projects overview for the year? I couldn't figure out how this exercise would work, can you please advice?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, interesting take on it, as it's an idea generation exercise yes you could, but we would advise then hosting more detailed workshops once initial overviews had been selected to work out specifics, perhaps an LDJ? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWecpNCTqtKscco.html

Hello. I really like this method. Do you think that reducing it to 5-for-5 in a bigger group of people (16) would have negative effect on results?

So I am a visionary if nothing else! 😁 I have been into astrology for over 25 years though most parts all too casually. Not entirely proficient in many things specifically. But I'm fascinated by the concept of brainstorming and I've got the heart of a creator. And I think I would be a polymath if I tried a lot harder! As it stands I've just got a lot of eccentric hobbies! 😂😂 But astrology is very salient to me therefore my belief in it is absolute and that gives me super power in and of itself but that's another story! I think astrology is a noble pursuit and I believe it can help people in profound ways! I mean to find new ways to help people with life with it! And I'm convinced I'm on to something big! Astrology is just stupid-crazy popular and it's star is only on the rise, pun intended! 🙄 Life is full of fate and astrology is the ultimate causality. All other cause and effect fall in line behind the when? and where? of what's going on in the heavens! it's just something that I've seen evidenced too many times and for too long to have need to debate it with myself any longer. I make no pretense about my command of all the knowledge of it, or lack thereof! But I pal around with a lot of astrologers online! And I mean to form a guild of them to brainstorm creative and dynamic and new ways to use it! Lots of people just love it to death and I'm convinced that I can help myself and others find gainful employment all while helping people along the way! I'm very impulsive however--the fact that you mentioned that you respond to all your messages capture my imagination so fast that I post the video before even watching it too test that out! 😂😂😂 I will continue on to the video now! And happy New year's! I'm very much hoping this one will be a productive one!

What do the follow-up meetings/exercises look like to execute on these ideas?

amazing really cool

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Is it necessary to waste so much of post-its though? Kidding, this is really good brainstorming technique! Keep going! 💯

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Raj Patil it’s a valid concern though, we use recycled post-its and recycle those ones too!

@RajPatilPune

4 жыл бұрын

AJ&Smart That’s epic! ♻️

@xubear4823

4 жыл бұрын

现在移动白板和玻璃白板都比较普遍了，为什么要用那么多便利贴呢？如果是收费的培训还好理解，内部培训没必要用那么多纸的

Do you have any advice for solo brainstorming for a creative project? (illustration / design / ...)

Hey Jonathan, I have a very basic question here - while voting, don't you think people will be biased to the one sticky note that already has good amount of votes (might be a hindrance/influence on their)

Awesome video, thanks a lot! Can you recommend a software for running this virtually?

@daffamusyafa3647

4 жыл бұрын

you can use platform like miro

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Great question Alex, yeh, Miro, or Mural, and perhaps a hosting service like WhereBy or Zoom?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

@@daffamusyafa3647 Agreed!

@sarkar06

4 жыл бұрын

AJ&Smart if using Miro or Mural how would one go about the first step I.e. without discussing or sharing ones list of ideas?

This is a great idea. How could it be done in a virtual environment where everyone is in a separate physical location? Thank you!

@christinestpierre3462

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I found a way to leverage Trello for our team to run this same play. Set up the Trello board with volume for activity’s and have the team use cards as sticky’s

Is there a video that solves the HMW questions or discussions to solve the problem?

What workshops can we add onto this one to generate solutions?

Thanks a lot for this video and all the others. There is one thing, I would like to ask: you are always assuming, that participants understand what others have written on the sticky notes, which is not always the case, as I saw, when conducting workshops. How do you proceed, when that happens? (Going through all the sticky notes together at least doubles the time of the exercise)

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Hey David! Ideally all the notes remain anonymous, that's why it's important to stress that people try to communicate their ideas clearly - and maybe give them a few examples (dos and don'ts). However, of course it's fine to ask people to explain if something seems interesting but unclear. It's also fine to skip them if the facilitator thinks other stickies communicate the same, or a similar idea in a better way. Sometimes it's up to the facilitator to make a call how important it is to put the spotlight on an idea As a facilitator, you should also take a look around what everyone is working on, and if some participants struggle to communicate their ideas in a way that's understandable to others without presenting them, remind everyone of dos and don'ts, best practices etc. (without specifically calling any participant out)

Hi AJ, is your design sprint 2.0 still the same process in 2020? Did any of the steps been updated?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Wilson, the 2.0 term was used to describe us iterating from 5 days down to 4 among a few other things. So in short there are some further changes yes... We're actually going to be revisiting ALL our Sprint videos in the near future to provide the very latest updates to the process! Stay posted!

I always struggle with these short timings. I've done plenty of lightning decision jam and had to increase the timings a lot. According to this video every participant should understand 50 ideas, compare them to her 10 ideas, and do all this in 180 seconds. Not realistic. I try to overcome this by reading out loud the sticky notes as the facilitator, but reading also takes a lot of time. I ask them to evaluate the ideas in their heads while I'm reading, but i haven't found the ultimate solution yet.

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Istvan, great to hear you’re LDJ’ing! With this exercise you can do with any sized group, each member only picks their ten best ideas, then of those, people vote on the best, you can remove the low voted dots and save then for later if you want, and only focus on the top voted ideas! You don’t need to understand ever idea, just approach the ones the group have consensus on!

@thiagolacerda8302

4 жыл бұрын

I also had to increase a lot of timing to LDJs. On their mural template it says 45 minutes. Probably that is the time needed with their especialized team. When I do with clients I need from 1 hour to 1.5 hour, as I need to let them get used to the tool and work method. 1.5 hour it's a long time if compared to the 45 minutes standard, but clients are still happy with the results, so that's ok for me.

That is e x a c t l y how I draw rectangles!

is there a web app for this for remote working? or is the functionally already built into google meet or zoom?

@punitkumar9258

3 жыл бұрын

Use miro sir

Great workshop concept to come up with ideas fast, make decisions and prioritise them. #bigflipchartenergy

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sam! There was some big energy emanating from the King Flip Chart that day!

Great video. My question however is, What if the agenda for a meeting was supposed to address more than one topic?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Good point Toluwase, this is just a workshop to kick off and generate ideas though. As it only takes ten minutes, you can do multiple runs of the workshop to ideate for different themes / topics! Still probably saving time on an unstructured meeting!

How about 'how would a think tank of entrepreneurial astrologers come together to figure out dynamic new ways to use astrology to provide services to help people in their day-to-day lives? Or indeed create new forms of astrology?' I am a passionate astrology enthusiast/aspirinng artist/astrologer/entrepreneur 😁

Hello AJ& Smart how u have have started your journey as design thinker. U have done a certification cource or master degree?

@mohammadfaizan9706

4 жыл бұрын

Please help me out.... I want to be a design thinker

Is there a web app that allows you to do this exercise with a remote team?

What is your recommendation for self-study of a design thinking book?

@AJSmart

Жыл бұрын

Design of Everyday Things is a great start! We also love Creative Confidence!

Any tips or tricks for encouraging participants to get a bunch of ideas on paper and not think about their ideas too much? I've run LDJs and other workshops that rely on idea generation and end up having to modify things a bit. Change number of dot votes per person for example. I feel like I can stress getting lots of ideas down but it rarely happens.

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

A simple 'Note and Vote', much like this exercise, works really well. 'Together / Alone' for 5 minutes, right down as many ideas as possible, then pitch back to the participants. Participants then vote on the themes or titles and you can then rank them based on votes and priorities!

@ryanpayne5323

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJSmart Sure but I meant while the team is participating in a "note and vote" exercise I'm having some trouble encouraging them to get down a lot of ideas. Thinking too much about one particular idea instead of moving on to another. I feel like we're missing out on some discovery. Any tips for influencing the team to get down more ideas in a "note and vote" context?

There will be many similar ideas on the board, doesn't it make sense to group the 60 "sticky notes" into themes? Like someone may write "BOOKS" and another "LIBRARY". Collectively they may have winning votes, but separately maybe not.

@professorjre

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering this too. Maybe in the posting step, folks could call out duplications (match game!) and double up their sticky notes some way. Don’t want to get into a long categorization stage, but some simple clumping might be useful.

@JenSutherland

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. As a facilitator you can either cluster them yourself or get the group to cluster (which is also a great way for them to get more about the ideas into their heads than they would by just silently reading to themselves).

I feel this would work only if there are many attendees to generate many ideas to actually vote on. Perhaps not feasible with a 3-4 person meeting.

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

In our experience it works with even 2 people so you should give it a go anyway and see what comes out of it!

HMW do this exercise with only one team member? Is it possible? I know brainstorming should be a collaborative activity, but in my case I'm working solo. Any advice?

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

That's more tricky given the voting element. What about some kind of social media poll on Facebook or Instagram to gain insights on your ideas from follows / friends / family etc ?

Hey, I have a smug question: why don't you answer every single question in the comments section? Wouldn't it be better not to promise something you can't deliver on? :)

The best way to self learn UX-UI design? Bcz I often feel stuck sometimes since there's no guidance.

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

Nidhi Kala Hey Nidhi, we have loads of videos on this topic! We recommend KZread to get started, books like ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ and ‘Design of Everyday Things’ and attending meet-ups and events! This video should help: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lnt50pd7oJDadZs.html