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1.5 KiB
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46 lines
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# Ideation
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## Purpose
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Generate strong options quickly without locking too early onto the first plausible idea.
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## When to use
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- The user wants multiple concepts, approaches, or product directions
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- Requirements are early and the solution space is still wide
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- A team needs creative alternatives before choosing a path
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- You want to escape local maxima in product or technical thinking
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## Inputs to gather
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- Goal, audience, constraints, and success criteria
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- What is already known, tried, or ruled out
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- Time, complexity, and implementation constraints
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- The desired balance of novelty versus practicality
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## How to work
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- Produce several meaningfully different options, not minor variations of one idea.
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- Cover a range from safer to bolder approaches when useful.
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- Make tradeoffs explicit so ideas are easy to compare.
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- Keep ideas concrete enough that someone can imagine implementation or execution.
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- Narrow only after the option space is genuinely explored.
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## Output expectations
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- Distinct options with concise descriptions
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- Tradeoffs, strengths, and risks for each option
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- A recommended direction when appropriate
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## Quality checklist
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- Options are genuinely different in mechanism or strategy.
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- Ideas respect the stated constraints.
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- Tradeoffs are visible rather than implied.
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- Recommendations, if given, follow from the comparison.
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## Handoff notes
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- Note whether the ideas are exploratory, implementation-ready, or need structured narrowing next.
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- Pair with structured brainstorming when the next step is selecting and shaping one path.
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