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Unpleasant design can be a great way of discouraging undesirable behaviour. By adding a bit of friction, bad behaviour can be prevented.

While desk research is important in any problem-solving project, it isn't enough. To find important insights you'll have to get out there.

Trainees are in a great position to drive innovation. But this won't happen automatically. You'll have to facilitate this process.

Jootsing is a clever way of finding out of the box solutions by first studying the system in which you operate.

To make your team more creative, have them share their most embarrassing experiences and laugh about it together.

A Bad Idea Brainstorm will loosen up even the timidest of participants. List the worst possible ideas to find surprisingly useful insights.

Kill the Company: destroy your own organisation so you uncover weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen it.

Backcasting is a way to plan for big changes, by starting at your desired outcome and working your way backwards.

The Mom Test offers some practical rules to have better conversations and uncover valuable insights to improve your idea.

The past twelve months we’ve published another 26 articles. These were our five most popular articles on creative problem-solving in 2020: