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Innovation doesn't have to be so fucking hard

How do I come up with new ideas and solutions to old problems? How do I make sure I find those quickly?
Here I share with you simple and practical tools to start innovating.

Featured innovation tool

  • Free

A Tiny Innovation Dictionary

  • 1 Lesson

Access, search and understand 400+ terms that innovators use.
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Free innovation courses

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Interviews for lazy people

  • 19 Lessons

Learn how to do user research interviews like a real lazy innovator.
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  • Free

Basics of Ideation for Innovation (Alpha version)

  • 55 Lessons

A future course teaching ideation theory and methods.
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  • Free

Basics of Experience Mapping for Innovation

  • 37 Lessons

Learn the basics of customer and user experience mapping, avoid the common traps  and build your first experience map.
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  • Free

Baselines and metrics for incremental innovation

  • 27 Lessons

An introduction to using baselines to measure the impact of your next innovation project.
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Free ideation and brainstorming resources

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Idea Note Taker

Capture ideas during workshops with in a structured format.
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  • Free

Basics of Ideation for Innovation (Alpha version)

A future course teaching ideation theory and methods.
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  • Free

Brands like these: idea generation workshop

Get a ready to use slide template to run your next idea generation workshop
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  • Free

Idea generation prompts

A tiny web app that gives you 50+ questions to kickstart your idea generation process.
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  • Free

Selection Matrix (Notion template)

Evaluate your ideas in a step by step process that removes biases and offers recommendations.
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Free persona templates and resources

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Basics of Personas for Innovation [beta]

A future course to help you learn the basics of personas, don't fall in the common traps and build your first persona.
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  • Free

Persona template

A fully editable and free template to create your personas in Microsoft Word, Google Slides or Apple Keynote
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Persona heuristic evaluator

A fully editable persona template with a heuristic evaluation sidebar
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  • Free

Minimal Persona (Notion Template)

A minimalist template that helps you summarize your user research with a Persona directly within Notion.
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Prototpying and testing resources

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Minimal Assumption Map (Notion Template)

  • Course
  • 4 Lessons

Verify what you think you know in order to not fuck up your research
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  • Free

Prototyping questions (Notion and PDF template)

  • Course
  • 6 Lessons

A set of questions you can use to test almost any prototype
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  • Free

Survey response rate calculator

  • Course
  • 4 Lessons

Calculate how many people you need to ask to get the number of responses you want for your survey.
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  • Free

Experience Storyboard Template

  • Course
  • 5 Lessons

Prototype on paper key moments of a user experience.
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  • Free

Experience Prototyping Course - Miro Board Template

  • Course
  • 7 Lessons

A Miro template for teachers who want to teach Experience Prototyping online.
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  • Free

Advanced Assumption Map (Notion Template)

  • Course
  • 4 Lessons

List and define how you'll verify your assumptions before starting your next innovation project.
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Free innovation canvases

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Experience Storyboard Template

Prototype on paper key moments of a user experience.
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  • Free

Idea Note Taker

Capture ideas during workshops with in a structured format.
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  • Free

Project Hunches Canvas

Get your project started by including the expertise of key stakeholders.
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  • Free

Learn by teaching template

A structured way for students to transform reading material in presentation for their peers.
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More free innovation resources

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Business Model Canvas (Notion template)

Create, share and export your Business Model Canvas directly within the Notion app.
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  • Free

Feedback Template for Miro

A structure to give feedback remotely to other designers and innovators.
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  • Free

Meeting time calculator

Discover how much time you really have for your next meeting. Avoid the frustration of not being able to do everything you planned for your meeting.
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  • Free

Empathy Map (Notion Template)

Create, edit and share your next empathy directly within the Notion note taking app.
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Want even more?

If you are interested in innovation you might be pretty interested in Service Design, the art of making your customers tell you "I love you!" instead of "Fuck you!"
See the Service Design resources

Meet the creator

I'm Daniele an Innovation Coach and Service Designer from Switzerland.

I worked with clients from all over the world to help them find innovative solutions to their problem. I've been blessed to be able to learn a lot. 
Today I want to share  these learnings back with the community. That's why I've built the Swiss Innovation Academy.