Crazy 8 is an excellent workshop in Design Thinking that allows for divergence and the generation of multiple responses to a problem. This workshop is fun, easy to set up, and encourages self-reflection.
Regularly used in a design sprint during the divergence phase, Crazy 8 produces outstanding results. By challenging participants to come up with 8 different variations of an idea, it’s possible to uncover an even better idea than the initial one.
Crazy 8 Workshop
Preparation:
Setting up Crazy 8 is straightforward. All you need is an A4 sheet of paper, and you can fold it as described in the images below:
When you unfold your sheet, the visible folds represent the 8 different areas. These are rough sketches, so there’s no need for a polished finish.
It’s ideal to provide the following materials in addition to the A4 sheets to the participants:
- Pencils and erasers
- Colored markers
Creating Our Crazy 8:
Each participant will prepare their Crazy 8 sheet to develop their ideas. Even those who may not consider themselves creative can come up with excellent ideas.
Once each participant is ready, they will be tasked with finding 8 alternatives to solve a given problem.
For example: How to represent key performance indicators on a single page?
At this point, we will give each participant 20 minutes to create 8 different alternatives.
Voting for the Best Ideas:
When the sketches are completed, we will ask all participants to place their A4 sheets on the wall to make them visible to everyone.
Here’s an example of the results presented by Revelry Labs:
We will then allow all participants 5 minutes to review all the proposals.
After these 5 minutes, we will conduct a dot voting session. Each participant will have 5 stickers to vote for the sketches they find most interesting (in terms of concept).
- 1 sticker = 1 vote
- Voting is done for individual squares, not the entire sheet
While the drawing of Crazy 8 is considered the “divergence” phase, this voting session is known as the “convergence” phase.
The teams will then keep the 3 ideas with the most votes to discuss further.
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