Word Association and Weird Ideas

From waffles to sports shoes and other crazy ideas, the chance connection method for ideation has proven itself before. In class we tried to use this method, and to start with a random noun we went to a random-noun-generator online. At first we got Daffodil and we decided that probably wasn't a good starting word. In hindsight, we may have been wrong.

What we decided to go with instead was the noun 'attitude' which is much less concrete than a noun like waffle or daffodil. We ended up having many variations on the theme of expectation, mindset and many more. Essentially, there was little variance in our associations and we had issues coming up with ideas based around words like mindset.

Off the top of my head I came up with one jokingly related to daffodil and I think it is this that illustrates best why we should have started out with something less abstract than attitude. Essentially I whipped up off the top of my head something along the lines of:

"use the fibonnaci sequence spiral for ordering things like the leaves on a plant or the seeds in a sunflower to organize objects in the application in a way that everything is visible and compact to save space"

Of course I was kidding at the time but that is the kind of thing that we should have been coming up with. With what we actually did, we got almost nowhere and even though we had more time than others because our "How Might We's" did not need to be revised, we didn't get very far into the 'crazy ideas' part of class.

On a separate note, at some point someone said 'crazy isn't really my thing'. I thought this was interesting because the way I looked at it, if crazy was anyone's thing, would it be crazy?