Category: Games & Exercises

Metaphors are one of the most useful tools in creative thinking. Figures of speech, they are useful to compare different things. However, metaphors can also be used as a visual

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation, said Plato. When was the last time you attended a business meeting

Waaaaaay back in 2006 when I started the first iteration of this website, I opened with a question about comparing the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the wire coat hanger. That

Click here for Online Mood Boards Long a favourite of professional designers, mood boards are a curated collection of random images, words and textures brought into focus by a single reference point.

Created by Yasuo Matsumura, a management consultant working in Japan, the Lotus Blossom may look elaborate, but it’s a simple creative exercise which uses free association to create ideas. This brainstorm

Easily one my favourite brainstorm techniques, New Point of View is a classic mental excursion. Excuse me, excursion? A creative excursion is not a literal journey but a mental one.

For those of you who like the , here are more details, questions and synonyms for you to try. But first, a gentle reminder ,,,. Remember the 90-10 Rule / Sturgeon’s

SCAMPER is one of the most well-known brainstorm techniques. The brainstorm exercise first appeared in Alex Osborn’s book Applied Imagination (1953). He outlined a series of challenge questions about a

This is a follow-up post to one of my most popular articles: Brainstorm Icebreakers. People working at their desk need to clear their mind and switch gears before they come into a

Use Mental Stimuli to Brainstorm is Post #6 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here.