Ideation
ChordChord
This wonderful tune creates interesting chord progressions for you. I tend to choose piano, turn off drums and set the bpm to around 80.
You have to pay to download the midi, but there are ways around this, using tools that turn recorded audio into midi. Although this may introduce errors or inaccuracies, we will live with these happy accidents.
Be Creative
If you select your problem type, Be Creative will then suggest creative methodologies for you to use.
Bright Sparks
This tool selects a random person for you to use as a creative prompt, and then asks leading questions to help you develop your ideas.
Design for Inclusivity Cards
The Cards for Humanity team have created this fabulous deck of cards to help you think about inclusive design.
Random Animal Generator
Generates a number of random animals for you. If you dig around, it can also generate places, flags, food and lots more.
Autochords
Select your mood and key, and Autochords does the rest.
p.s You may need Soundflower to record your chords...
Make It Pop Cards
Like Oblique Strategies, these cards are a great "game" for making you come up with something creative.
Startup Cemetry
All those great ideas that didn't work. Look how many millions were spent trying to get each idea to work. Just because they failed, it doesn't mean your take on it will fail. A good game to play is to pick two failed startup ideas at random, then seeing if mashing them together gives you a killer idea.
Creative Problem Creating: Jon Satrom
Jon is an artist who undermines interfaces, problematizes presets, and playfully bends data. He spends his days fixing things and making things work. He spends his evenings breaking things and searching for the unique blips inherent to the systems he explores and exploits.
Grotesque Tables
Based on Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, Grotesque Tables is a deck of creative prompt cards that are all anagrams of the Oblique Strategy cards.
