Tools for creating ideas

Here are tools for creating ideas, either individually or with other people.
Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there.
Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks.
Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions.
Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them.
Brainstorming: The classic creative method for groups.
Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups.
Brainmapping: Combining brainwriting and mind-mapping.
Brainwriting: Group doodling for non-verbal stimulation.
Breakdown: Careful decomposition to explore the whole system.
Challenge: Challenge any part of the problem.
Crawford Slip Method: Getting ideas from a large audience.
A Day In The Life Of...: Building creative tension from contextualized situations.
Delphi Method: Explore ideas or gain consensus with remote group.
Doodling: Let your subconscious do the drawing.
Essence: Looking elsewhere whilst retaining essential qualities.
Forced Conflict: Using conflict to stimulate the subconscious.
Guided Imagery: Letting your subconscious give you a message.
How-How Diagram: Break down problem by asking 'how'.
How to: Frame statements as 'How to' to trigger focused thinking.
Incubation: Letting the subconscious do the work.
The Kipling method (5W1H): Ask simple questions for great answers.
Lateral thinking: Thinking sideways to create new ideas.
Lotus Blossom: Unfold the flower of extended ideas.
Chunking: Go up and then down elsewhere.
Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration.
Modeling: For the artist in everyone.
Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values.
Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction.
Pause: Think more deeply for a minute.
Post-Up: Brainstorming with Post-It Notes.
Provocation: Shake up the session by going off-piste.
PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea!
Random Words: Using a random word as a stimulus.
Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem.
Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem.
Remembrance: Remembering solutions not yet discovered.
Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards.
Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening.
Rubber-ducking: Get someone else to listen to your talk.
SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli.
Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem.
Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain.
Take a break: When creativity is fading.
Talk streaming: Just talk and talk and talk until you unblock.
TRIZ Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents.
Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside.
Value Engineering: Deep analysis to understand and innovate in areas of key value.
Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future.
Wishing: State ideas as wishes to expand thinking.
Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.
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