Six Thinking Hats

por Itamar Medeiros@designativehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/designative

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My name is Itamar Medeiroshttp://www.designative.info/http://www.linkedin.com/in/designative/medeiros.itamar@gmail.com@designative

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Designing Interactions: Six Thinking Hats

Learning Outcomes§  You will learn how to use The Six Thinking

Hats to help facilitate Feedback / Brainstorming Meetings

Class Outline§  Edward De Bono’s Lateral Thinking§  A Brainstorming Framework§  Moderating Brainstorming Sessions§  Exercise

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Shneiderman, B. (February 1999), Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 7, 1 (March 2000), 114-138.

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Six Thinking Hats:Edwards De Bono

Created several thinking Tools, such as Six Thinking Hats1, Lateral Thinking2 and Power of Perception3 Thinking Tools

1.  de Bono, E. (1985). Six Thinking Hats, Back Bay Books; 2 edition (August 18, 1999). 2.  de Bono, E., (2015). Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, Harper Colophon; Reissue

edition (February 24, 2015)3.  de Bono Consulting, (2009). “Power of Perception”,

http://www.debonoconsulting.com/images/power-of-perception.pdf retrieved Oct 11th, 2010

De Bono, E, (1999), Six Thinking Hats, Back Bay Books; 2 edition (August 18, 1999)

This system is a simple and practical way to enable the team to become more objective when viewing ideas or problems;

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Six Thinking Hats:A Brainstorming Framework

This enables the team to looking at what could be rather than what is.

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Six Thinking Hats:Moderating Brainstorming Sessions

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The value system of each hat needs to be promoted and this should be covered early in the session/meeting you’re planning to conduct using this framework, so that participants become more open to suggestion and feel positive about any feedback they receive/give

Overvieworprocesscontrol

LogicalandpositiveWhywillitwork?Whowillitbenefit?

ObjectivefactsandfiguresWhatisneeded?Howcanitbefound?

Intuition,feelingsandemotions

Creativity,alternatives,provocations

Judgement,caution,negativeviews,weakpoints

Blue: Summarise

Yellow: Benefits

White: Facts

Red: GutFeelings

Green: IdeaGeneration

Black: Drawbacks

Blue Hat Moderation

Red Hat Gut Feelings

Red Hat Emotions & Feelings

Red Hat The Place for Emotions in Thinking

Red Hat Intuition and Hunches

Red Hat No need to justify

Red Hat How to I feel about this matter?

White Hat facts

White Hat What information do we have?

White Hat What information do we need?

White Hat What information is missing?

White Hat What questions do we need to ask?

White Hat How are we going to get

the information we need?

Green Hat Creativity, alternatives, Provocations

Green Hat NewIdeas,newconceptsandnewpercep0ons

Green Hat The logic of the absurd

Green Hat Movement instead of Judgement

Black Hat Drawbacks

Black Hat Cautious and Careful

Black Hat Pointing out difficulties and problems

Black Hat The Past and the Future

Black Hat The Problem with Overuse

Black Hat Should we proceed with this idea?

Yellow Hat Focus on benefits

Yellow Hat Speculative-Positive

Yellow Hat From hopeful to logical

Yellow Hat Reasons for optimism

Yellow Hat Making things happens

Blue Hat Moderation

An example how to use the Six Thinking Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design review session:

§  Typically a project review or feedback session will begin with an extended blue hat action, as everyone gets “on the same page” creating a shared vision of the issue being addressed.

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An example of how to use the Six Thinking Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design review session:

§  The discussion may then move to red hat thinking in order to collect opinions and reactions to the problem. This phase may also be used to develop constraints for the actual solution, such as, who will be affected by the problem and/or solutions.

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An example of how to use the Six Thinking Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design review session:

§  Next the discussion may move to the yellow then green hat in order to generate ideas and possible solutions.

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An example of how to use the Six Thinking Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design review session:

§  Next the discussion may move between white hat thinking as part of developing information and black hat thinking to develop criticisms of the solution set.

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An example of how to use the Six Thinking Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design review session:

§  Then, at the end of the session, finally back to the blue hat, to summarize what has been discussed.

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Overvieworprocesscontrol

LogicalandpositiveWhywillitwork?Whowillitbenefit?

ObjectivefactsandfiguresWhatisneeded?Howcanitbefound?

Intuition,feelingsandemotions

Creativity,alternatives,provocations

Judgement,caution,negativeviews,weakpoints

Blue: Summarise

Yellow: Benefits

White: Facts

Red: GutFeelings

Green: IdeaGeneration

Black: Drawbacks

Use each hat for a few minutes at a time only, except the red hat which is limited to a very short 30 seconds, or so, to ensure that it is an instinctive gut reaction, rather than a form of judgments.

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Overvieworprocesscontrol

LogicalandpositiveWhywillitwork?Whowillitbenefit?

ObjectivefactsandfiguresWhatisneeded?Howcanitbefound?

Intuition,feelingsandemotions

Creativity,alternatives,provocations

Judgement,caution,negativeviews,weakpoints

Blue: Summarise

Yellow: Benefits

White: Facts

Red: GutFeelings

Green: IdeaGeneration

Black: Drawbacks

If you have questions about how to run a meeting using The Six Thinking Hats framework, feel free to contact me at:

Itamar Medeiroshttp://www.designative.info/http://twitter.com/designative medeiros.itamar@gmail.com

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