gaia-brainstorming

Structured brainstorming for product design uses a guided workflow applying techniques like mind mapping, SCAMPER, and Six Thinking Hats. It gathers scope and constraints, runs multiple ideation rounds, and categorizes outputs into themes to yield a ranked artifact for decision-making.

Organizing and ranking ideas involves categorizing generated concepts into specific themes and evaluating them by impact and feasibility. This structured approach ensures the final ideation artifact provides a clear, prioritized list for downstream review and collaborative decision-making.

Using multiple ideation techniques like SCAMPER and Six Thinking Hats together is supported. The workflow selects two to three creative methods, running distinct ideation rounds for each to generate a comprehensive set of diverse ideas for your problem-framing session.

Mind mapping for collaborative problem framing works by visually structuring ideas around a central topic during a guided session. It helps teams explore scope and constraints, generating connected thoughts that are later organized into themes and ranked by feasibility.

Setting up specific output goals is required before starting a structured ideation workflow. The session setup explicitly gathers your topic, scope, constraints, and desired goals to ensure the generated and ranked ideas align with your decision-making needs.

The final brainstorming artifact is rendered as a markdown document using a structured template. It is saved to the creative artifacts directory with a date-stamped filename, allowing downstream skills to easily locate and process the categorized, ranked ideas.