UX-UI/subjects/ux/athele-keep-hydrated/ideation/README.md

Ideation

You can replace Pierre with your own persona.

The chosen problem statement is:

“How might we help Pierre (or your persona) measure and prepare his hydration before a race?”

Now, let’s find creative solutions!

Find 3 friends outside of the program and run a quick ideation session (20 minutes).

• What you need for an in-person ideation workshop:

  • Prepare some papers or sticky notes, stickers, a jar, and pens.
  • A closed room for 20 minutes where everyone feels comfortable.

• Directions:

  • Ask them to turn off their phones.
  • Explain the context and introduce Pierre (or your persona).
  • Explain the goal:
    • Let’s find as many solutions as possible to the question: “How might we help Pierre (or your persona) measure and prepare his hydration before a race?”, given the following constraints (unveil them one after the other: 1 minute per constraint, 1 constraint per round):
      • If Pierre was blind
      • If Pierre was a bird
      • If Pierre was a billionaire
      • If Pierre had a twin who was constantly with him
      • If Pierre was 5 years old
      • If Pierre had 5 arms
      • If Pierre was 105 years old
      • If Pierre was very clumsy
      • If Pierre was very forgetful (and lost memory every 5 minutes)
      • If Pierre was deaf
      • If Pierre was a turtle
      • If Pierre was naked
      • If Pierre couldn’t stop talking 24/7
      • If Pierre was always late
      • If Pierre was dishonest
  • Set a timer for each round.
  • Ask the participants to do, at each round, the following:
    • Write down their ideas on a sticky note (1 idea per sticky note).
    • Read them out loud.
    • Put the sticky note in a jar.
  • Gather all the ideas.
  • Give the participants 3 stickers each and ask them to vote for the best three options.
  • If there isn’t a solution that stands out of the crowd, hang them on a board and organize them according to these two parameters: easy to implement and efficient. Example in the resources.
  • Choose 1 main idea to solve the problem.

Instructions

• Take pictures of the session.
• Create a board with all the ideas (on Miro or Figma for example).
• Highlight one main idea to solve the problem next to the board.

Deliverables

• A zip file.

Don't forget to:

• Upload the documents on Github, in a zip folder named “ProjectTitle_Name_FirstName”, with all project deliverables as follows: “Name_FirstName_DeliverableName_Date_VersionNumber”. For example, the first deliverable can be named as “Doe_John_MidFiPrototype_05242024_V1”.
• Add a title within all written documents.

Resources:

• Tool: Ideation Voting Board Framework on Figma
• Where Good ideas come from by Steven Johnson
• Creative Confidence by Tom Keller
• Podcast What is wrong with UX?
• Brainwriting #2

Quote:

Chances are that... If you have gone through all possible solutions, you’ve found the good one.