Crazy 8s is a quick and fun exercise that challenges people to create eight distinct ideas in eight minutes.
To generate a wide variety of potential solutions/ideas for your challenge. The creative nature of the exercise combined with the time pressure ensures people don’t overthink and generate quantity over quality (to be iterated later on).
After defining the problem statement or how might we statement, it’s time to ideate.
30 mins
30 mins
4+
Anyone who wants and should contribute, no matter their role. However, the more diverse the group of people, the more diverse the ideas will be.
Select a "How Might We" or problem statement from the problem statement workshop
Depending on whether you use the Pen + Paper or the Miro way, prepare the required resources
Individually, each team member to sketch or write one idea in each box every minute, trying their best until all sections are filled
Share or upload your sketches onto Miro
Each team member presents back their ideas quickly
Vote on the best ideas to take forward (however many you want to take forward)
Crazy 8's
Try it for yourself using the pre-made activity template.
Our templates have been created using Miro, a digital whiteboard tool. If you’re new to the tool you can check out this demo or reach out to a member of the design team for support.
If you’d like help with planning or facilitation, reach out to one of HP’s design thinking experts and we’ll work to help understand the challenge and get you started.
