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Inspiration Wild Cards

is a set of 50 inspirational cards out of 5 categories. Every card is a stimulation for your creativity. The categories are: super forces, fiction laws, super heroes, stereotypes and nightmares.

This is an inspirational tool for brainstorming, containing 50 wild cards with food for thought. Give your ideation inspiration and boost your innovation with sparks of craziness. The cards bring unexpected solution spaces in every design workshop and disrupt common thought patterns for any product. You want rad product ideas? Here you have 5x10 wild directions you didn't think of.

HOW-TO

Precondition: You or your group need new ideas.

  1. Define the product, use case or feature you want to ideate on.
  2. Sort out the cards which are not relevant, because they already apply to your problem.
  3. Each participant gets a card.
  4. Each participant takes 5 minutes to rethink the product based on the card. Write it down.
  5. Discuss together (and/or dot vote) the ideas for the real product.

Repeat until you succeed.

FURTHER INFORMATION

There is a connected article about inspiration and a structure for the process: The 3 Phases of Inspiration (Published at UXPA Magazine) This describes the basic inspiration principle and phases, where a method like the inspiration wild cards can be part of.


On LinkedIn you find a page for the Inspiration Wild Cards, containing regular updates and social stuff.


If you want to know the story of how the cards came to life, there is a Behance project page containing the making-of. Same for the website, also their making-of is on a separate Behance page.


You can also download a press kit with 40 high-res images (.zip, 45mb).

FAQ

In which languages are the cards available?

The cards are available in English and German language.

Which knowledge level does my team or I need to use the cards?

Almost no prerequisite or know-how is needed to use the cards. It's really simple. The only thing you need is a problem or idea or innovation space. Like 'We want to make a new version of our car clock, how can we do something innovative?' or 'We want to come up with a new fantastic feature in our app, but don't know which...'

Where can I get more information on the ideation process overall?

You can read the article mentioned above ('further knowledge') or read one of the numerous good books out there about topics like design thinking, User Experience / UX or innovation management.

Can I get more than the 50 cards?

Not yet. Maybe in one possible future there will be updated versions. If you have a request or cards you miss or any other idea, please write to info@inspirationwildcards.com.

Is there a full online version of the card set?

We are working together with https://www.deckible.com/, they provide mobile apps for iOS and Android, where the deck is available inside.