Creativity techniques

diagram to visually organize information

Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of ideas, including ideas that may seem outlandish or "off-the-wall". Ideas are noted down during the activity, but not assessed or critiqued until later. The absence of criticism and assessment is intended to avoid inhibiting participants in their idea production. The term was popularized by advertising executive Alex Faickney Osborn in the classic work Applied Imagination (1953).

TRIZ (; ) is a methodology which combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting techniques derived from the study of patterns of invention in global patent literature. The development and improvement of products and technologies in accordance with TRIZ are guided by the laws of technical systems evolution. In English, TRIZ is typically rendered as the theory of inventive problem solving.

art genre in which computers are used as a main tool in the creative process

methods devised to encourage creative actions

method of generating creative ideas

multidisciplinary endeavour

decision making method for use among groups of many sizes

The Affinity diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data.

mental process of searching for an original and previously unknown solution to a problem

Creative thinking technique

activity of computer programming for expressive purposes

group brainstorming technique

Bodystorming is a technique sometimes used in interaction design or as a creativity technique. It has also been cited as catalyzing scientific research when used as a modeling tool.