 we are going to do an unboxing video first unboxing video on the channel so let's see how it goes i've invited gearston gearston co-colleague at the studio so we've got a package here on the table creative clues you have no clue what the creative clues are right no so this is a surprise um i'm going to hand this package to you and then the unboxing will be yours creative clues i'll include the links down below it's uh you'll see what it is but it's a Kickstarter project started by andre carrol from berlin and then we have the unboxing and it's a set of stickers stickers can you show me what kind of stickers do we have a set of stickers and these metaphors and symbols devices and technology so a lot of stickers this is like the uh Kickstarter edition the full bundle i think it doesn't come in a bubble wrapping anymore but in a different packaging but i was one of the first ones who supported this Kickstarter initiative so i got the exclusive set there are so there are a lot of stickers like people what all devices and technology there's a lot there's a lot needs and value needs and values industries and objects what ah i like this one emojis it's printed they have an index and they should be reusable stickers we'll try that tomorrow in the session and see how it goes so the idea behind the set from what i got from andre story was that you can use these to enrich your workshops let people work in a more visual way rather than just words yeah um we're going to do a session tomorrow right we have a workshop so the idea is to actually prototype this yeah any ideas on how this might be useful and the thing we're going to do tomorrow yeah i think it would be nice when i see this for the brainstorming because that's often a lot like with words and now you can also maybe get inspiration from these first and then get ideas i think that would be something i'd like to prototype and we're back yes we got the opportunity to prototype creative clues not once but twice yesterday what did we do kirsten well we used it together with the team to fill out a project canvas and i used it together with a colleague yesterday and how did the creative session go the workshop well it went well the people kind of got to get used to it um but they visualized words they already wrote down on post-its and there was one lady that used it as a metaphor to explain something to that basically to tell a story right yeah in in within image yes uh and the other way we uh prototyped it you prototyped it how did you use the creative clues there well that was more to make the poster richer i think first we thought oh we have to fill out stuff and i'll make some drawings and then i thought it will go faster if i just use these stickers so this was like a poster with a project plan a lot of words right something like that in this you use the creative clues to make it more yeah visually appealing yeah right what's your experience um when how did they work and when would you consider using them um i would consider using them myself if i have to speed up i think you can work very quickly with it you yeah and with uh teams or groups i think it's best if people are not really used to work with visuals or to draw that might be a step too far for them and then using these stickers is more easy who do you think would benefit the most like who is the target audience are are are they people like us service designers or um i don't really think so because my thought was immediately how can i create this myself and make it more personalized or how we would very specifically use it um but i think for people who start with service design or want to work more visual start with making customer journey maps for example for them it would be really great to enrich them and to uh yeah work with these visuals yeah we had the conversation like a lot of designers probably get the urge to create this themselves well probably a lot of the let's generalize here and use the word managers like managers and all the meetings the boring meetings where you use the flip overs and you don't get further than bullet points right those kind of meetings i think those are all occasions where creative clues would be really helpful yeah right yeah in the in in settings where people are used to bullet points the bullet point sessions yes so um what what would you say did you find any things that you thought well this could be improved or here are some opportunities for version 2.0 yeah i think so first of all uh like when we first unwrap the package there was a lot on the table um and there are categories written down on top but it's all in black letters and you it's not really visual you still have to read it and to search what what belongs together it's a lot of categories also so for me that could be quicker maybe um maybe less categories maybe four and just a very easy visual overview of what yeah belongs together that's one mm-hmm anything else um we also we we also talked about probably we have we have the full bundle like we have the Kickstarter edition with everything in it and that's a lot and what we already saw yesterday is probably it's like the golden 80-20 rule probably you'll just end up using 20 percent of the images that are in this set and but you'll use them a lot yeah so probably after using this for a while you'll figure out which images you fit your niche your your audience and then you probably want a lot of those so this is good to start out with to get an understanding of what's possible um it's that one other thing yeah i just came up um i was thinking i would like to choose the colors maybe of course you do but that's uh the designer kind of thing um to make it fit uh with the the style with the branding yeah yeah so now it's a lot of colors and uh maybe it would be nice if you could just choose okay so creative clues recommended and when to summarize what would you say um buy this if you yeah if you want to work more visual and everybody needs to work more visually absolutely the link uh to where you can order the creative clues is down below in the show notes uh if you've tried them leave a comment let us know what how did you use them uh what do you think our pros and cons uh love to know thanks for review kerson bye