⚠️ Anti-pattern: Jumping to solutions without understanding context = generic noise, not useful ideas
Situation → Technique Matrix
| Stuck / No ideas | Random Word, Forced Connections, Oblique Strategies
| Need breakthrough | First Principles, Challenging Assumptions, Combinatorial Engine
| Improve existing | SCAMPER, Reverse Brainstorming, TRIZ-AI
| Explore systematically | Morphological Box, Six Thinking Hats, Constraint Injection
| Reframe problem | How Might We (HMW), Jobs to be Done
| Team ideation | 6-3-5 Brainwriting, Multi-Persona Parallel
| Too many ideas | Impact/Effort Matrix, Idea Clustering
| AI ideas too similar | Divergence Guard, Constraint Injection, Incubation Cycling
| Technical/engineering | TRIZ-AI, First Principles
| Cross-domain innovation | Combinatorial Engine, Analogical Thinking
Technique Quick Reference
| SCAMPER | 7 lenses: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other use, Eliminate, Reverse
| Random Word | Random noun → list attributes → force connections to problem
| Reverse Brainstorm | "How to make it worse?" → Invert each idea
| First Principles | Strip to fundamentals → Rebuild from scratch
| Six Hats | 6 perspectives: Facts, Feelings, Risks, Benefits, Ideas, Process
| HMW | Reframe as "How Might We [verb] for [user] so that [outcome]?"
| Morphological Box | Parameters × Variations matrix → Combine systematically
| Analogies | "How does [other domain] solve this?"
| Assumptions | List assumptions → Challenge/invert each
| Forced Connections | Combine 2 unrelated concepts
| Jobs to be Done | "When [situation], I want [motivation], so I can [outcome]"
| Oblique Strategies | Random creative prompts to break deadlocks
AI-Optimized Techniques
| Incubation Cycling | Generate → Pause → Fresh restart (no prior context) → Compare
| Combinatorial Engine | Abstract → Retrieve 3 domains → Generalize → Combine → Instantiate
| Multi-Persona Parallel | Run 4+ personas SIMULTANEOUSLY (not sequentially)
| Constraint Injection | Add random constraint (budget/time/anti-feature) → Force novel solutions
| Divergence Guard | Force opposite → Domain shift → Absurdity injection
| TRIZ-AI | Apply inventive principles (segmentation, nesting, dynamization, etc.)
Convergent (Refine)
| Impact/Effort | 2×2 matrix: High Impact + Low Effort = Quick Wins
| Idea Clustering | Group similar → Name clusters → Pick best from each
References
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Step-by-step guides: techniques.md
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AI methodology & research: methodology.md
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Random word bank: random-words.md
Related Skills (Optional)
| Technical contradiction / trade-off
| /triz - systematic innovation
| Need structured problem-solving
| /problem-solving - Polya, 5 Whys
| Business strategy context
| /manage-business-strategy - SWOT, Porter's
| Design new business model
| /design-business-model - BMC, Lean Canvas
| Need current facts/research
| /deep-research - comprehensive research
Note: These skills are optional. Generate-creative-ideas works standalone for ideation.