# IdeationHub Requirements Brainstorm

**URL:** <https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88>\
**Category:** 💡 Ideation\
**Tags:** idea\
**Created:** [July 2, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88 "2022-07-02T05:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/1 "2022-07-02T05:07:55Z")

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## Summary

This topic is for brainstorming requirements that IdeationHub might have.  
This first post is a placeholder that will contain a summary of the thread.

> **Note** : When responding start your comment with a H2 heading naming the requirement.

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Brainstormed requirements:

- [**Visionary Ideation**](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/2): Often ideas do not stand on themself, but are related to a larger whole. Visionary Ideation ties these ideas together, and helps people to collectively establish a “completeness of vision” over time.

Ideas:

- [**Spark Files**](https://scribe.rip/the-writers-room/the-spark-file-8d6e7df7ae58): Keep track of hunches, and regularly read them back. Spaced repitition Flash Cards. Develop over long periods of time.

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/2 "2022-07-07T05:16:55Z")

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A post was split to a new topic: [Visionary Ideation: Brainstorm and weave ideas to match a long-term vision](https://discuss.coding.social/t/visionary-ideation-brainstorm-and-weave-ideas-to-match-a-long-term-vision/91)

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/3 "2022-08-21T05:30:32Z")

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A post was split to a new topic: [Spark Cards: Spaced repetition for Hunches and Ideas](https://discuss.coding.social/t/spark-cards-spaced-repetition-for-hunches-and-ideas/126)

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/4 "2022-09-24T05:56:16Z")

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## Gamification / serious games

The IdeationHub should really make an appeal to everyone’s creativity to be unleashed, and be a fun and lighthearted experience to be involved with so that the barriers to participation are as low as possible.

Gamification can be of great help here. Though not directly related the following example by [GOV.UK](http://GOV.UK) shows how intricately designed policy cards are used to help stimulate ones creative thought processes:

> **[Launching our experimental policy design methods – Policy Lab](https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2022/05/18/launching-our-experimental-policy-design-methods/)**
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> Design thinking continues to permeate our work, but over the last year, we have been scanning the horizon to identify the next wave of innovative methods that could improve the way policy is made, tested and delivered in order to de-risk...

We might have Ideas that are at different levels of maturity, and while they are ‘ripening’ we assign them different, more richly designed types indicated with a graphic.

The notion of **Idea Cards** itself is a good concept. And in the design of the artwork for them we can involve fedizens that are into graphics design, fostering more inclusion that way.

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/5 "2022-10-09T16:42:17Z")

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## Thinkathons

[We Are Open Co-op](https://weareopen.coop) uses a concept called [Thinkathons](https://weareopen.coop/thinkathon/):

 ![Start with an idea. Ask it some questions. Look at it from different angles](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/1X/9f9b42d5b4e0167a24794322483f33acc3af289c.png)

> _“Stand in another person’s shoes and see how an idea looks from there. You’ll be surprised at the clarity that this can produce. The outcomes of a Thinkathon relate to the breadth of experience in the room – and the ability to think openly. We work towards finding solutions. We help you think sideways about what you are trying to do – or even why you need to do it.”_

_(Diagram [Bryan Mathers](https://bryanmmathers.com/) and content, both CC-BY)_

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/6 "2022-10-16T08:28:55Z")

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/ideationhub-requirements-brainstorm/88/7 "2023-09-01T10:03:50Z")

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There are scientific studies that indicate people do not like collaborative brainstorming. This article gives an interesting summary of why that is, and gives some best-practices for ideation:

[https://uxdesign.cc/the-tyranny-of-collaborative-ideation-d6f40bc33336](https://uxdesign.cc/the-tyranny-of-collaborative-ideation-d6f40bc33336)

Via scribe.rip: [https://scribe.rip/the-tyranny-of-collaborative-ideation-d6f40bc33336](https://scribe.rip/the-tyranny-of-collaborative-ideation-d6f40bc33336)
