Creativity tools provide

a means for us to augment our innate

generative activity. There are lots of creativity
tool that are widely used. Examples include analogy,
boundary shifting, various types of
brainstorming, and checklists. There are actually hundreds of creativity tools
available. Most creativity tools
try to enhance fluency, the quantity of responses, flexibility, ideas that are
distinct from each other. Originality, the level of uniqueness of the
ideas generated. A creativity tool will
not produce ideas. Instead, it can be used to assist in the generative process.
Most tools can
actually be used at any stage in a
problem-solving process, but tend to mainly be focused
on problem exploration, idea generation, and
concept evaluation. Creativity tools generally
function by ensuring that the problem can be understood
in relatively simple terms, so that this occupies only a fraction of your
short-term memory. Supplying cues to
make the search of long-term memory more
efficient and providing cues to ensure refreshing of short-term memory and thereby
retention
of key information.