A visual structure that helps generate a wide range of ideas at the intersections of various categories
- To create solutions that we never imagined might be possible, we must break away from conventional thinking.
- To start, draw a large grid of rows and columns and label it: columns are categories related to people (e.g., challenges, pain points, market segments, or personas) and rows are categories enabling solutions (e.g., spaces, technologies, activities, or policies).
- Next, organize participants into teams of 4 to 6 people and instruct everyone to generate as many ideas as they can in silence for 15 to 20 minutes.
- An effective way to populate the matrix with novel ideas is to transform the project’s problem statements ...