Mini Crazy 8s Exercise

A simplified Crazy 8s exercise to rapidly brainstorm ideas.

Context 📒

Design/brainstorming sessions can take hours. Use this simplified version of the popular “Crazy 8S” exercise to quickly come up with impactful ideas.

Instructions📗

• Duplicate the board, one for each participant.

• Fill out the goals and notes on top.

Crazy 4s exercise (pick paper or digital) 🎨

Paper version

• Take a piece of paper, fold half twice—open it back up and you should have 4 equally divided sections.

• Set the timer to 4 minutes—sketch 4 quick ideas/wireframes per section.

• Airdrop/move them to the 4 sections in the board here. Elaborate on the ideas using the stickies provided.

• Go over the ideas with your team—vote on the top ideas.

Digital version

• Same as paper, but sketch your wireframes in FigJam.

Voting 🗳️

• Each participant takes 2 min to go over their Crazy 4s.

• Use the Chikoritas and Meganium sprits to vote (place them over your favotite ideas. Chikorita = 1 point, Meganium = mega vote = ... well, more than 1 point!

• Done—go populate your backlog!