L3-B

Idea Generation

PRESENTED BY
Team 2
Group:123-124
Year:2023-2024
Academic semester: 452
Date:17/4/2024
Instructor: Dr.Abdulmalik Al-Hasson
 1 Omar Alluhaymid

2 Faris Alsalamh

Faisal Mohammed
3

Members 4
Mazen Alkhttaf

5 Mohammed Alzuyaydi

6 Meshari Khaled
 Introduction

As we started by defining the problem of our project at L3-a, we are now going to
generate a wide range of potential artifacts at L3-b, together with a set of constraints
(musts) and wishes (wants) that can be utilized to guide our team in choosing the perfect
artifact. Three tasks, listed below, must be explained for our L3-B assignment:
1. What kind of artifacts might there be?
2.What are the restrictions?
3-What are your desires?

We will be fully prepared for the artifact selection by the time this task is complete, and
we will have a clearer understanding of the following stage.
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 Artifacts

In this section, we'll use brainstorming and random simulation to try to come up with as many
ideas as we can. The process of brainstorming is used to generate ideas and information for a
certain topic. Table 1 lists the top 30 ideas the team came up with after applying the
brainstorming technique to create a list out of 60 artifacts. Each member should give one idea
from the five categories that we have listed. The categories are:

Personal items Office supplies Car equipment Building items Toys

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 Artifacts

Personal items Office supplies Car equipment Building items Toys

Omar Faisal Faris Mazen Mohammed Meshari

Pen Phone Files Car lights Jackhammer Charger

Construction Stapler Steel beams Dolll Fridge Ball
Steering wheel Car charger Action figure Wallet Board game Marker Pen
Watch Steel Hand sanitizer Desk lamp Pencil House
Puzzle Yo-Yo Car seat Concrete Battery Tire

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Task 1

In our list we felt the need of a new category to cover up the large numbers of the
artifacts. Table gives the process we have used to generate the new category.

After we generated the new

Random Random simulation New Category category, here is our new list of
Word categories:
1. Personal items
Drill Device → Electric → Electrical Devices 2. Office supplies
3. Car equipment
4. Building items
5. Toys
6. Electrical Device

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After gathering the ideas we started the multi-voting method. We have 30 artifacts
divided by 3 equals 10. So each member has 10 votes for the artifacts and the
maximum vote for one idea by a member is 2 votes only. Table shows the symbols
for each member.

Member 1 2 3 4 5 6
Symbol A B C D E F

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 And table show the listed idea with the votes.

Office Building things Car Toys Personal Electrical devices

supplies equipment items
- Pen(B) Construction(C) - Steering - Puzzle(B) - Watch(A)(A) - Phone(A) (C) (C)
Stapler(A)(E) - Steel(A) (E) (E) wheel(B) - Yo-Yo (C) (D) (F) (D) (F)
List of the top 5 artifacts:
- Files(F) (F) - Car seat - Action - Hand - Car charger(A)
- Steel beams(B) - Tire(A)(C) figure(B) sanitizer(D) - Car lights(B)(F)
- Pencil(C)
(C) (D) - Doll(D) - Wallet(B) (F) - Desk lamp(B) (F)
- Marker
Pen(D)(E) - Concrete(A) - Board - Jackhammer(E) NO. Artifac
- House(D)(F) game(C) (F) - Fridge(A)(C)(E) ts
- Ball(A) (E) (E) (F)
- Charger(D)(D) 1 Battery
(E) 2 Phone
- Battery(B)(B) (C) 3 Fridge
(D)(E)
4 Watch
5 Steel

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Task 2
Use (Brainstorming)
Table of MUSTS

OMAR FARIS FAISAL MAZEN MUHAMMED MESHARI

Less than< 70 Findable Portable Can be divided Small size Not
SAR complicated
Not dangerous Dissect into at No need for legal Can be control Weight <10 KG
least 5 pieces high quality by the person
equipment to
separate

Be approved no weapon No liquid ethical mechanical Accepted by

by instructor (“SASO”)

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Task 2
Now we use brain drizzle method:

We take some phases to remove some MUSTS:

1-it’s not from our job  Less than<70 SAR
2-that’s too expensive  Legal
3-that’s not practical  Ethical
After we use these statement, we remove some ideas:  Can be control by the person

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Task 2 Table of Brainstorming
Findable (C),(D),(B)
Can be divided (E),(F)
Use Boggle method: Small size (A),(C)
6 5 4 3 2 1 Member Not complicated (F),(D)
s
Not dangerous (C),(A)
F E D C B A Symbol
Dissect into at least 5 pieces (A),(E)
No need for high quality equipment to separate (E ) , (B),
(D),(F)

Weight <10 KG ( F),( E)

After used Boggle method Be approved by the instructor (C ), ( E), (B)
Not dangerous Not complicated Findable No weapon (D)
Can be divided Portable Approved by the
instructor
Not liquid (E)
Mechanical (D),(E )
Dissect into at Accepted by No need for high Accepted By (SASO) (A ), ( C ), (F)
least 5picess (SASO) quality equipment
to Separate Portable (B),(D),(C)

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 Adapt?... how can this (product, idea etc.) be used as is? What are other
uses that could be adapted to?
Osborn’s
checklist Modify .. Change the meaning, material, color, shape, order?

Magnify .. add new ingredient? Make longer, stronger, thicker, higher,

etc.?
Osborn’s checklist method
technique is used to generate
additional alternatives that are
related to those previously Minify .. split up? Take something out? Make lighter, lower, shorter etc.?
obtained. To make it simple. It’s
a checklist that you follow
when your brain freezes, that Substitute.. who else, where else, or what else? Other ingredient,
opens a new dimension to your material, or approach?
mind

Rearrange .. interchange parts? Other patterns, layouts? Transpose cause

and effect? Change positive to negative? Reverse roles? Turn it
backwards or upside down? Sort?

Combine .. combine parts, units, ideas? Blend? Compromise? Combine

from different categories?
 Osborn’s checklist

Original Artifact Prosses New Must

Osborn’s checklist for MUSTS:
1-Findable ͻNot complicated+ Combine Not
comfortable complicated
2-Not complicated (Combine) and
comfortable
3-Portable (Modify)
Original Artifact Prosses New Must
4-No need for high quality equipment to separate
5-Can be divided ͻPortable ͻ Modify ͻ You can’t carry it
any place

6-Not dangerous
7-Accepted by (“SASO”)
8-Dissect into at least 5 pieces (Magnify) Original Artifact Prosses New Must

9-Approved by the instructor ͻDissect into at ͻ Magnify ͻ Dissect into at

least 5 pieces least 8 pieces

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Use multi voting method to decrease constraints to three or four:

Member 1 2 3 4 5 6
Symbol A B C D E F

Findable (A),(B),(E) Not complicated and comfortable You can’t carry it anywhere
(A),(C) (B),(D)

Accepted by (“SASO”) (A),(C),(D), Dissect to at least 8 pieces Approved by the instructor

(F) (B) (A),(C),(E)

Not dangerous (E) Can be divided (C),(D),(F) -No need for high quality
equipment to separate (C)

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After we generate a lot of constraints by the brain storming process, we start
to remove the similar constraints from different members by the boggle
method. But, we still have a huge number of constraints, so we use multi-
voting to reduce them to a reasonable number. Our final constraints are
shown in the table below :

Constraints (musts)

1 Findable

2 Accepted by (“SASO”)

3 Can be divided

4 Approved by the instructor

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 Task 3

Use (Brainstorming)

Table of WANTS:
MESHARI MUHAMMED MAZEN FAISAL FARIS OMAR
Easy to draw Don’t require a saw Bright color One color (Modify)Matt Easy to
color separate

Found in any Less than 10 parts Electrical artifact Artifacts mechanical Easy to carry
market related to civil artifact
engineering

After used Boggle method

Don’t have Interesting artifact (combine)Plastic Easy to Don’t contain Made of
sharp angels with metal separate illegal plastic
material
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 Task 3

After we used Boggle method

Easy to carry Less than 10 parts Easy to separate

mechanical artifact Made of plastic (combine)Plastic with metal

Electrical artifact Bright color Don’t have sharp angels

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Random
stimulation
Random stimulation is a method that we use if we are stuck
and can’t get more ideas. It can give you different ideas than
what have been generated. It uses a random words from any
resources you have for example, a dictionary, book,
newspaper, etc. To generate other words that stimulate the
flow of ideas.

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Random
stimulation
Category before using random stimulation:

1-Related to the color

2-Related to the shape
3-Related to the department
4-Related to the material

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Random
stimulation
In our list we felt the need of a new category to cover up the large numbers of the
artifacts. Table gives the process we have used to generate the new category.

After we generated the new

Random Random simulation New Category category, here is our new list of
Word categories:
1-Related to the color
Find Search → Find → Findability 2-Related to the shape
3-Related to the department
4-Related to the material
5-Findability

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Use multi voting method to decrease constraints to be at least five:

Member 1 2 3 4 5 6
Symbol A B C D E F

Easy to carry Less than 10 parts Easy to separate

(B),(D) (E ) , (B),(D) ( C ),(E ) , (B),(D)

Mechanical artifact Made of plastic (combine)Plastic with metal

(E ) , (B),(D),(F) (A ) (E ) , (B),(D),(F)

Electrical artifact Bright color Don’t have sharp angels

(F) (A ), ( C ), (F) (E ) , (A) (E ) , (B),( F)

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After we use multi voting we decide to take three or more votes in
common and we get 6 ideas like in the table below

Ideas (wants)

1 mechanical artifact

2 (combine)Plastic with metal

3 Easy to separate

4 Don’t have sharp angels

5 Have a bright color

6 Less than 10 parts

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Conclusion:

after we generate the ideas, musts, and wants, we follow many steps to arrive at the final
lists of them. This lists, will help us in the future when we want to decide on the final
artifact idea. In the next assignment, we will evaluate the ideas based on the constraints
we have and check how many of them will be chosen. Then we will put a score for each
wants to measure the final score of each idea that passes the constraints we have.
Depending on the score, we will end up with one final idea.

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Table of Summary:
Artifact ideas Constraints (musts) desires (wants)

1 Battery Findable Mechanical artifact

2 Phone Can be divided (combine)Plastic with metal

3 Fridge Accepted by (“SASO”) Easy to separate

4 Steel Approved by the instructor Don’t have sharp angels

5 Watch Have a bright color

6
Less than 10 parts

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