Remote Ideation Workshop and Techniques

[@d.2718]

Tne one and only video about ideation that I was looking for!

[@thecraftio]

Of course, happy to hear it was helpful!

[@DustinScherer]

When it got to prioritization, voting in Miro made this quite easy to do!

[@thecraftio]

Nice! Have you tried Figjam?

[@DustinScherer]

@@thecraftio I have not. The company has an enterprise license of Miro.

[@thecraftio]

@@DustinScherer Ah yes, that is always the challenge haha. My company also uses Miro.

[@mcjiehembile3992]

This really helps me in my new career, I kinda lost in the process and this gives me direction again. I wish there is also a rundown on the Define stage process soon like synthesizing and organizing the raw insights. By the way thank you so much!

[@thecraftio]

Hi there, very happy to hear this gave you direction! Can you tell me where you are getting stuck in the define and synthesis process? Would love to hear more about your challenges.

[@mcjiehembile3992]

Wow! that is amazing, I find it overwhelming after the research, to build a common consensus on the insight we got. I tried making an affinity mapping and persona alone but should I do it with stakeholders? I guess the difficult part is running the workshop and planning it beforehand 😁. Also after I theme all of the insight should I make how might we statement per theme or prioritize the theme first? I know this sounds a lot but thank youuuuuu so much!

[@thecraftio]

I like to do the affinity map and research synthesis alone and then share with stakeholders so everyone can review and be on the same page.😊 Following that I find that a workshop is most helpful to get everyone involved and aligned. You’re right imo all the hard work is done in preparation for the workshop. I like to do HMW questions as a group. First I go wide, so divergent thinking and generating lots of ideas, then all the stakeholders can vote on the largest or most important problems. Hope this helps!

[@mcjiehembile3992]

@@thecraftio OMG that is a very comprehensive explanation thank you very much for taking the time for my long question. I will definitely use that as a guide in my next workshop next week. This video will add to my playlist haha, also the PRD one. Please keep making content as you like, they are really helpful!

[@thecraftio]

My pleasure! Happy it’s helpful. Thanks for your support.😊

[@Nostromo_UX]

Brilliant and well organized !

[@thecraftio]

Hi Nicolas! Glad you enjoyed it😌

[@DustinScherer]

Found this quite useful and informative. Thank you so much!

[@thecraftio]

Hey Dustin 👋 awesome my pleasure!

[@FlyingOtis]

Thanks! :)

[@thecraftio]

Welcome! 🤗

[@ChrisBecerraSoy]

great content. Thank you!

[@lucasl..7307]

Hello Sera, It is a great lesson! Could you help me with one question? How do you define if you are gonna IDEATE BY YOURSELF or if you are gonna FACILITATE A WORKSHOP? I am new to UX UI and I didn't find this information on the sources I have... Thanks in advance!

[@thecraftio]

Hey good question! It depends on the scale of the project, the timeline you are working with, and the scope of work. I definitely prefer to do group ideation when the insights of other members are really relevant to creating the most robust solutions. For example, if you are working on a more technical product or require different areas of expertise, could even be customer support, or a certain program manager, etc. Hope this helps! lmk if you need further clarification.

[@lucasl..7307]

@@thecraftio Got it! Scale, Timeline and Scope... Thanks!

[@thecraftio]

@@lucasl..7307 My pleasure!

[@freedom-is-the-key]

great one! thank you so much! could you clarify what was the process for creation HMW questions and solutions?

[@anuraggupta1303]

Hi Sara, very informative video sharing details about the entire workshop. I am currently a student and learning techniques to get most out of the ideation sessions, this video certainly helped me gain more knowledge. I have a task at my hand wherein I have to perform an Ideation session to find out about the Use Cases that a particular technology can be used for in an organization. I am looking for some ideas for generating HMW questions around it. Can you provide with some tips which I can use for generating HMW questions for finding more use case of a product/technology

[@prajwalsharma2794]

If I have defined a complete problem statement in the define stage. 1) Is it wise to create H.M.W questions in the ideation stage and generate potential solutions? 2) Or we can just generate potential solutions by keeping the problem statement (that we defined in the define stage) as a reference?

[@thecraftio]

Often the initial problem statement leads to the UX research and from there during the ideation you break down further problems that were uncovered in the research. The HMWs would be based off challenges, risks, problems, blockers, etc. uncovered during UXR. Lmk if you have further questions!

[@prajwalsharma2794]

@@thecraftio So, HMW technique is a way to understand the problem in depth even if you have defined the problem earlier. Am I right?

[@thecraftio]

Maybe this will help: www.nngroup.com/articles/how-might-we-questions/

[@ahmedabohay6322]

very happy with the ideation session .. really great and organized also you are using the tools wisely according to the goals of the project I really like when you said that high impact and high effort but it will be valuable for the users. hmmm do u feel comfortable when you are the only designer in the team as I know you are junior designer

[@ahmedabohay6322]

Thats great you are confident person and I know that well I mean to just have someone that can guide you .. or exchange thoughts and ideas anyway .. really happy that you have no fear to breakthrough what it seems for me hard tasks Good luck 💙

[@dotnetgolden]

Hi Sara, really lovely session. I'm thinking, isn't this session to be facilitated by the Product Manager? You also mentioned creating stories/epics and prod backlogs...wondering what the Business Analyst & Product Manager on the team would be doing if the Product Designer does all these...what are your thoughts?

[@thecraftio]

Hey Juwon, thank you for the compliment! Not necessarily. Product Designers are not always paired with a strong Product Manager. It can be nice if the PM introduces the team's project and the problem we are focused on, however, from there I like to take over. If the designer was more junior, I can see it could be helpful to joint run that session with the PM. I have never worked with a business analyst on any tech team so I can't speak to that. What city are you working in? Btw, my name is Sera.

[@dotnetgolden]

@The Craft Hi Sera. Thanks for the helpful response. I work in the UK, I'll find you on LinkedIn and send you a chat if that's alright. Cheers

[@maverick2691]

Hi, thanks for sharing this it’s very useful for me as researcher in my company. However, I would like to ask question on who should lead this ideation ideally? Because my company is still in learning phase where we all still figure out how this kind of framework implemented. Appreciate if you can have any suggestion for this, thanks!

[@thecraftio]

Hey there, thanks for the comment! I'm glad to hear this is helpful. Typically this kind of ideation is led by the PD in charge of the project.The workshop is used once research is complete and synthesized. So the PD would collaborate closely with the research team. Hope that helps!

[@cyberlera]

Also, I noticed that some of the HMW cards actually contain a solution, e.g. "HMW show the most expensive or the cheapest route?" I wonder how this HMW emerged. Or was it connected to research synthesis where there already was a statement, something like "As a user I want to see most expensive or the cheapest route?"

[@thecraftio]

The ideating on problems and solutions are 2 different phases. All of the ideating on potential problems comes directly from the research conducted. Hope that helps!

[@bunnywaj]

Ideation is huge area and it won’t only solves how might we

[@thecraftio]

Ideation is huge! What other ideas do you have?

[@cyberlera]

Thank you so much for this video! I am wondering how did the team manage to go through all the HMW cards and discuss constraints and solutions for each one of them in one hour? Or were there multiple sessions to do just that?

[@thecraftio]

Hey the workshop is broken up into 3 days 1 hour each and we manage time.

[@nicholasfranca8533]

Hi Sara, very great content! Do you make a voting session on HMW questions before going to ideas?

[@thecraftio]

Hi Nicholas! Thanks a lot. For HMW questions generally we review what's in scope as a team and then generate solutions individually. We vote on solutions and not on HMW questions. If you'd like to narrow the scope even more, I don't think it's a bad idea to try voting on the HMW questions. 😊