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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides six thinking styles (white, yellow, black, red, green, blue hats) to help evaluate ideas generated during an ideation session. The facilitator should encourage participants to consider the ideas from the perspective of each hat's thinking style to uncover different angles and identify potential winning ideas or idea combinations. Each hat represents a different thinking perspective, such as facts (white), positives (yellow), difficulties (black), emotions (red), creativity (green), and process management (blue).

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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides six thinking styles (white, yellow, black, red, green, blue hats) to help evaluate ideas generated during an ideation session. The facilitator should encourage participants to consider the ideas from the perspective of each hat's thinking style to uncover different angles and identify potential winning ideas or idea combinations. Each hat represents a different thinking perspective, such as facts (white), positives (yellow), difficulties (black), emotions (red), creativity (green), and process management (blue).

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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides six thinking styles (white, yellow, black, red, green, blue hats) to help evaluate ideas generated during an ideation session. The facilitator should encourage participants to consider the ideas from the perspective of each hat's thinking style to uncover different angles and identify potential winning ideas or idea combinations. Each hat represents a different thinking perspective, such as facts (white), positives (yellow), difficulties (black), emotions (red), creativity (green), and process management (blue).

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    6 Thinking Hats

    Why
    At some point in your ideation sessions, you’ll have reached a critical mass of ideas, and it will
    become unproductive to attempt to keep pushing for more. This is referred to as the ‘convergent
    stage’ where ideas are evaluated, compared, ranked, clustered and even ditched in an attempt to
    pull together a few great ideas to act on. Right now, the aim is spotting potential winners, or
    combinations of winning attributes, from a number of ideas.

    The Six Thinking Hats will help you apply the idea criteria which are right for your current design
    challenge. These methods will help you work through the pile of ideas which you’ve generated and
    select the best ones, which you can start prototyping and testing.

    The Six Thinking Hats Technique provides a range of thinking styles to apply to idea selection.

    Best practice: How


    • The facilitator should encourage the participants to evaluate and consider all the ideas through
    six various mindsets and thinking styles so as to uncover the widest range of possible angles on
    the ideas being assessed. It helps break participants out of their set styles of thinking and
    forces them to look at the ideas being assessed from multiple viewpoints and assessment
    criteria.

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    • White Hat: The White Hat calls for information which is known or needed. It’s all about this: ‘The
    facts, and nothing but the facts.’

    • Yellow Hat: The Yellow Hat symbolizes optimism, confidence, and brightness. Under this hat, you
    explore the positives and probe for value and benefit.

    • Black Hat: The Black Hat is all about judgement. When you put on this hat, you’re the devil's
    advocate where you try to figure out what or why something may not work. It’s now your job to
    spot the difficulties and dangers and ask where things might go wrong. This is probably the
    most powerful and useful of the hats, but it’s a problem if you overuse it.

    • Red Hat: The Red Hat calls for feelings, hunches, and intuition. When you use this hat, you should
    focus on expressing emotions and feelings and share fears, likes, dislikes, loves, and hates.

    Green Hat: The Green Hat focuses on creativity: the possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas. It's
    • your opportunity to express new concepts and new insights.

    Blue Hat: The Blue Hat is used to manage the thinking process. It's your control mechanism that
    • ensures the Six Thinking Hats guidelines are observed.

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