Tool 29
Challenging assumptions
What the tool is
This is a simple and powerful creative tool. List everything you know about something familiar, then treat every statement as an assumption, finding alternatives to the apparently obvious.
When to use it
- When you feel constrained by a system or process.
- When you feel that a design is becoming old and tired.
What you will need
- Flipchart and marker pens.
How to use it
- Ask the group to call out everything that they know about the current object of the discussion. What are the attributes of the current version? List each answer on a flipchart.
- Now ask them to consider that none of these attributes is real nor cast in stone – each is simply assumed to be real.
- For each attribute listed, ...
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