67 synthesis prompts & counting
- From… to…
2. Lost in translation
3. Traveling while standing still
4. Looking in to look out
5. Looking out to look in
6. Like AirBnb, but for x
7. Like Uber, but for x
8. Time travel
9. Traveling while standing still
10. Everything but the x
11. Walking the talk
12. Talking the walk
13. Hidden in plain sight
14. Imagined but not lived
15. Heard but not spoken
16. A tale of two cities
17. The same but different
18. Different yet the same
19. Everyone is a designer
20. Culture as the original technology
21. “Smart” is not intelligent
22. Invisible heroes
23. Everywhere yet nowhere
24. Culture as designer
25. Put a ring on it
26. To go big, start small
27. To build diversity, start with similarities
28. Debunk myths
29. More is sometimes less
30. Less is sometimes more
31. Simplicity can mask complexity
32. Complexity can mask confusion
33. Say it with flowers
34. To go deep, start at the surface
35. The exception is the norm
36. Baggage allowed
37. To go far, go slow
38. Losing the battle, winning the war
39. Winning the battle, losing the war
40. Modern fairy tale
41. Magic mushroom
42. Stirred, not shaken
43. Change is an inside job
44. To love a butterfly, let it rest in your palm
45. Missed Connections
46. Recut the cookie cutter
47. Marriage of convenience
48. Crime is the punishment
49. Punishment is the crime
50. Town and country
51. Walking barefoot on marble floors
52. All dressed up and nowhere to go
53. Upstairs, downstairs
54. Front of house, back of house
55. Shoots and ladders
56. Indoor cat or outdoor cat
57. Awkward and awesome
58. Awkward but awesome
59. A world within a world (heterotopias)
60. The panopticon
61. Liberation
62. Old is new
63. Inside out
64. Extending welcome
65. Aerial view vs. street view
67. Knee level (kid view)
68. Static or kinetic
69. Boundary or border
70. De-colonisation
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