Here's how you can ignite creativity and innovation in your team.

They say be the dumbest person in the room, and there is plenty of merit to that statement. If you use your 2 ears to listen, your 1 mouth to speak and your 2 eyes to look, you will find that those around you have plenty of amazing ideas, which you would possibly never have some up with yourselves. Allowing others to have a voice opens up another world potentially, especially in a world where we all have such different experiences and ways of viewing things. Other than the obvious benefits to the creative process, this allows others to feel valued it creates feelings of belonging and investment, as people get invested in what they feel involved with. It also invokes confidence that their opinions and ideas are valid and valued.

Encourage all team members to share their ideas and perspectives. Create a safe and inclusive environment where everyone feels their voice matters. Regular brainstorming sessions and open forums can facilitate this.

> Foster an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas, even if they seem outlandish. > Encourage open discussion and avoid punishing mistakes made during brainstorming. > Break routine! Host brainstorming sessions outside the office, encourage diverse perspectives through guest speakers, and provide time for employees to explore creative pursuits. > Celebrate innovative ideas, even if they don't lead to final solutions. > Public recognition and incentives for creative problem-solving will motivate teams to keep thinking outside the box.

Be mindful of psychological safety! Creativity flourishes when team members feel comfortable sharing ideas, no matter how out of the box. Additionally, a more diverse range of ideas results from varying origins and viewpoints, so diversify the team by hiring people from diverse backgrounds

Imagine uma sala de reuniões onde engenheiros, designers, especialistas em marketing e analistas de dados se sentam juntos. Cada um traz consigo um conjunto único de habilidades, experiências e formas de pensar. Quando profissionais de diferentes áreas colaboram, os muros invisíveis entre departamentos desmoronam. Isso permite que ideias fluam livremente, sem barreiras. A combinação de conhecimentos técnicos, criatividade e visão estratégica resulta em soluções mais robustas. Por exemplo, um designer pode trazer insights sobre a usabilidade de um produto, enquanto um analista de dados pode identificar padrões ocultos nos números.

Diversity is key to creativity. Bring together people from different backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. This mix of perspectives can lead to more innovative solutions and out-of-the-box thinking.

Although many people have many different approaches to one problem, allowing the space and prompts for those insights to come out, is a task to be cultivated. Try encouraging more collaborative platforms such as Miro and Figma that allow for everyone's ideas to reflect off of each other. Use the iterative-running process to catapult ideas into a rich space.

I agree. Having different perspectives and utilising them positively is like combining different colors to create a beautiful artwork. When people with different experiences and skills work together, they can come up with innovative solutions. This is because everyone brings their own unique ideas and ways of thinking.

Estabeleça um ambiente seguro para o brainstorming. Encoraje todos a contribuir, sem julgamentos. Lembre-se de que até as ideias aparentemente surreais podem ser a semente de algo grandioso. Quanto mais variadas forem as perspectivas, mais eficiente será o resultado.

One thing I find helpful is always ask my designers; questions to challenge their thought process and if their design is robust enough for daily public use

The key to operating outside of your comfort zone is confidence. Developing that starts with the attitude that every decision you make is an expression of some want of yours. Lean into trusting your voice, eye, taste, and hand instead of constantly questioning. If you have a doubt about a decision, just press onwards and see if contextually it fits or needs to be adjusted. If you have trouble with self-criticism, remember that the only standard that matters to you is you own. The further you allow your authentic decisions to take hold over the course of a few sessions, eventually you will always be led somewhere unique.

There was a time before internet is active and I would visit Kinokuniya Singapore weekly to source the most trendy design reference books for my team as I believe they should learn from the best of global design minds.

Although you might be a pro at your program of choice, a physical scale model lends less of a degree of separation between your mental-spatial faculty and your intent & process, making a clearer bandwidth connection between the material and the assertion of your creative eye. Our hands are our tools of power, it is better to clothe them into direct form, rather than mouse -> program -> form. Research the old masters and how they utilized objects to give a better sense. Such as Gaudí's Models.

Foster a playful environment where creativity can flourish. Allow time for fun activities and experiments that can inspire new ideas. Sometimes the best innovations come from a place of play and exploration.

Play is simply creating without a clear cut destination. If this type of experimentation is foreign to you, try today, turning on your favorite playlist, and just fiddle with your program or materials without any care for the review of the final product. Run through the transformations you are familiar with, this will give your subconscious footing to conspire a semblance of route to follow. Let each decision inform the next one. To take it a step further, engage a measure of constraint such as a boundary, a limit of material, an environment, a feeling, a budget, etc. Allow for a set of blocks to be in the break room and a mat. Designate play-spaces and set up a camera. Make it easy to pick up and valuable to use.

Often when we design for children spaces, Able to learn through Play is so important and this is carried forward to so many different aspects our designs

I enjoy reflecting proactively. Such as, • Placing it where it will live to enable the next step of edits, usually seeing something you forgot to incorporate. • Creating a new mind-map & mood-board to see what the current piece is giving, and then you can compare it to the original mind-board/mood-map to see your trajectory. • Employ Provocation Techniques such as "What if the final piece of this was just a 15s Tik Tok?" or "What would be the worst possible interpretation of this look like". • Try a SILENT Braindrain where everyone writes their ideas whilst doing something else such as a walk, fiddling on the program, an instrument, etc. • Roleplay as an VC investor or stakeholder. • Tear it all down and collage it back together. <3

Outra chave para a criatividade é ir além dos limites conhecidos! Uma opção é o trabalho com as perguntas: "E Se ..?". Desafie a equipe a pensar além do óbvio. E se aplicássemos princípios de design thinking à nossa estratégia de vendas? E se explorássemos a gamificação para treinamento interno? A combinação de ideias inspira a criatividade. Um conceito de design pode ser a base para uma campanha de marketing. Uma abordagem de resolução de problemas da engenharia pode ser aplicada à gestão de projetos.

Stay open to new ideas and continuously seek out ways to innovate. Encourage lifelong learning and curiosity within your team. Keep an eye on industry trends and be willing to adapt and evolve as necessary. By incorporating these strategies, you can create a dynamic and innovative team environment that is well-equipped to tackle challenges and come up with groundbreaking solutions.