All Creative Tools

Here are all creative tools in alphabetic order:

Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there.
Adoption Checklist: A checklist of what leads to adoption.
Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks.
Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions.
Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them.
Brainstorming: the classic creative method for groups.
Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups.
Brainmapping: Combining brainwriting and mind-mapping.
Brainwriting: Group doodling for non-verbal stimulation.
Breakdown: Careful decomposition to explore the whole system.
CATWOE: A checklist for thinking about problems and solutions.
Challenge: Challenge any part of the problem.
ChangingMinds: The ultimate persuasion website.
Chunking: Take a higher or more detailed view.
Concept Screening: Comparing options against a baseline benchmark.
Context Map: Mapping the overall problem domain.
Crawford Slip Method: Getting ideas from a large audience.
A Day In The Life Of...: Seeing things as they are experienced.
Delphi Method: Explore ideas or gain consensus with remote group.
Diffusion Lifecycle: Spreading ideas one group at a time.
Doodling: Let your subconscious do the drawing.
Essence: Looking elsewhere whilst retaining essential qualities.
Forced Conflict: Using conflict to stimulate the subconscious.
Force-field Analysis: Exploring forces for and against an idea.
Guided Imagery: Letting your subconscious give you a message.
Head, Heart and Hands: Get all three systems of motivation engaged.
The Hundred Dollar Test: How will you spend $100 on your ideas?
How-How Diagram: Break down problem by asking 'how'.
How to: Frame statements as 'How to' to trigger focused thinking.
Incubation: Letting the subconscious do the work.
Is − Is not: To scope out boundary of problems.
The Kipling method (5W1H): ask simple questions for great answers.
Lateral thinking: Thinking sideways to create new ideas.
Lotus Blossom: Unfold the flower of extended ideas.
Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration.
Modeling: For the artist in everyone.
Moment of Truth (MoT) Analysis: Finding vulnerable customer moments.
Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values.
Negative Selection: Sort out the 'definitely nots' first.
Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction.
NUF Test: Check idea is New, Useful and Feasible.
Pause: Think more deeply for a minute.
PINC Filter: Evaluate pros and cons of ideas.
Positives, Negatives: Look at both problems and benefits.
Post-Up: Brainstorming with Post-It Notes.
Problem Statement: Getting a clear statement of what you are trying to achieve.
Provocation: Shake up the session by going off-piste.
PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea!
Purposing: Finding the real purpose of what you are doing.
Random Words: Using a random word as a stimulus.
Remembrance: Remembering solutions not yet discovered.
Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards.
Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening.
Reverse Planning: Working backwards from a perfect future.
Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem.
Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem.
Rubber-ducking: Get someone else to listen to your talk.
SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli.
Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem.
Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain.
Swap sort: Sorting a short list by priority swapping.
Take a break: When creativity is fading.
Talk streaming: Just talk and talk and talk until you unblock.
TRIZ Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents.
Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside.
Value Analysis: Deep analysis of where true value is created.
Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future.
Voting: Democratic casting of votes for the best idea.
Why not?: Challenge objections and assumptions.
Wishing: State ideas as wishes to expand thinking.
Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.

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