Sep 30, 2010

iPad App: Visual Synectics

The Idea of the App I want to create is to build an digital app of the Offline-Technique "Visual Synectics". This Technique is a creative technique to get a new perspective and a new view on a problem.
This technique works visual. Everyone in the discussiongroup chooses a picture from picture catalogs or magazines.
For example if I choose the picture of the mountainbike and said: I choose this picture because I will go mountainbiking in the afternoon. I like the action of this picture and the unsharp bike, which stands for high speed and dynamic.
Then the group has to find three specific words that fit to the picture. For example:
• dynamic
• fun
• action
These words build then the basic for a discussion.
You could ask: How can FUN help, to write my Masterthesis? Or how can Virtual Teamwork made with more fun?
Source: http://www.lausd.net/District_2/resources/prinsconf/Visual_Synectics.pdf

Converted to an app you could use a database with some stored pictures and words which fit to those. Then the user could choose 2 or 3 of them.
Start Screen: Choose your words
 After the user selected those words a quiet discussion starts, basically it looks like a chat. But the goal is, to use those new words and asked, how they can help to solve the problem.

If you have feedback, we can discuss it on Monday or you can write a comment.