Product Design and Development: Thoufiq Mohammed K Ap / Mech
Product Design and Development: Thoufiq Mohammed K Ap / Mech
Product Design and Development: Thoufiq Mohammed K Ap / Mech
DEVELOPMENT
THOUFIQ MOHAMMED K
AP / MECH
Creative Thinking Methods
Group Brainstorming
• Here, you can take advantage of the full experience and creativity of all team members. When
one member gets stuck with an idea, another member's creativity and experience can take the
idea to the next stage. You can develop ideas in greater depth with group brainstorming than
you can with individual brainstorming.
• Another advantage of group brainstorming is that it helps everyone feel that they've
contributed to the solution, and it reminds people that others have creative ideas to offer. It's
also fun, so it can be great for team building!
Creative Thinking Methods
Individual Brainstorming
• This can occur because groups aren't always strict in following the rules of brainstorming, and
bad behaviours creep in. Mostly, though, this happens because people pay so much attention to
other people that they don't generate ideas of their own – or they forget these ideas while they
wait for their turn to speak. This is called "blocking."
• When you brainstorm on your own, you don't have to worry about other people's egos or opinions,
and you can be freer and more creative. For example, you might find that an idea you'd hesitate
to bring up in a group develops into something special when you explore it on your own.
• However, you may not develop ideas as fully when you're on your own, because you don't have
the wider experience of other group members to draw on.
The SCAMPER technique for brainstorming
Creative Thinking Methods
A concept map
• Defining knowledge that exists in your head but hasn’t been formally documented
Creative Thinking Methods
How to make:
• Identify the focus question or main topic—think about the problem or issue you want the concept map
to resolve. This idea should connect to all others on your map and will guide the hierarchical
structure.
• Identify all the key concepts that relate to the main idea you identified. Order them with the most
general concepts first and the more specific concepts last. This list is referred to as the parking lot.
• Create a preliminary concept map linking the concepts together. Remember to add linking words or
phrases on the lines to demonstrate how the concepts are related.
Journalism students are taught to ask six simple questions to ensure that they have covered the entire story.
These same questions can be used to help you approach the problem from different angles.
• Who? Who uses it, wants it, will benefit by it? What? What happens if X occurs? What resulted in success? What
resulted in failure?
• Why? Why is this done? Why is that particular rule, action, solution, problem, failure involved?
• How? How could it be done, should it be done, prevented, improved, changed, made?
Creative Thinking Methods
Five Whys
The Five Whys technique is used to get to the root of a problem. It is based on the premise that it is not
enough to just ask why one time. For example:
• Why has the machine stopped? A fuse blew because of fan overload.
• Why was there an overload? There was inadequate lubrication for the bearings.
• Why wasn’t there enough lubrication? The lube pump wasn’t working.
• Why wasn’t the pump working? The pump shaft was vibrating because it had worn due to abrasion.
• Why was there abrasion? There was no filter on the lube pump, allowing debris into the pump.
CREATIVE METHODS FOR
DESIGN
A common strategy for solving any complex task or describing any complex system is to
decompose it into smaller units that are easier to manage. Decomposing must result in
units that meaningfully represent the original entity.
Physical Decomposition