PSA: A quick team ritual that fixed our stale design brainstorms

Our design team was hitting a wall every week during our online check-ins, with everyone just staring at blank screens. One person started asking each of us to bring one cool thing we saw lately, like a book cover or a logo from a cafe. For instance, I brought up a concert poster I spotted downtown, and it led us to try a new font style for a client project. This little practice makes our meetings way more fun and gets ideas moving fast. It even helped our boss understand our creative process better, so feedback is clearer now. Working from home feels less lonely when we share these visual sparks. Give it a shot if your team's inspo is running dry.

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perry.fiona4d ago

We tried something similar last month and it really broke the ice.

dianaanderson3d ago

Yikes, our team did that same icebreaker thing and honestly it fell pretty flat. It just felt super forced and everyone gave those safe, boring answers. Kinda just made people more aware they were at a work thing lol. Didn't actually lead to any real talk.

phoenix_jackson522d ago

Our team did that exact thing for six months straight and not one person ever gave a safe answer... that's actually wild to me. We all got so into finding the weirdest street art or the ugliest website from the 90s to show off. It became a competition to find something truly odd. I can't even picture someone just saying a boring logo was their cool thing... that feels like it defeats the whole point of looking for a spark. The forced part only happens if people aren't actually looking around in their daily life.