How Might We? (HMW's) 🤔
We crafted "How might we?" questions to base our features upon them.
How might we log food in a way that is easy and fun?
How might we record our mood?
How might we enter daily water intake in an effortless way?
How might we log caffeine intake?
How might we display healthy recipes appealingly?
How might we give reminders that are not annoying?
Crazy 8’s
Rapid ideation
Once we had jotted down these "How might we's" the next step was rapid ideation. We used Crazy 8's to do so. It is a fast sketching exercise so it challenged each of us to sketch eight distinct ideas in eight minutes. With 8 sketches, from 4 of us, for 6 HMW's, we had a total of 192 ideas!
Decision Phase
The next step was to select the best feature ideas now that we had flushed out all our good and bad ideas.
To do so each of us took turns to vote on these sketches. The most votes for every HMW got selected and we moved on to the next phase of the design process.
Team Dynamics
All activities in the ideation phase were done together as a team.