Traces how a current approach got adopted historically, so 'new' ideas can be checked against past attempts before repeating them.
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Forces two unrelated concepts together ('what if we treated X like Y?') to surface ideas conventional approaches miss.
Sharpens a vague idea into an actionable concept through structured divergent-then-convergent thinking.
Interviews the user one question at a time until it's ~95% confident it understands what they actually want, for underspecified asks.
Flips a core assumption to test whether 'the only way to do this' is really the only way.
Flags a pattern once it's shown up in three or more unrelated domains, pointing at a more universal principle underneath.
Stress-tests a design by imagining it at 1000x bigger, smaller, faster, or slower to expose assumptions that only hold at 'normal' scale.