THE LISTS is an open and playful database of creation techniques.

Here you can find various creation techniques and output types from different design disciplines. At a hands-on level THE LISTS tries to inspire you to go different and unexpected pathways in designing. It is an opportunity to try new things far away from the routined comfort zone, to broaden one’s horizon, so to say a prison break out of the own mental framework.

Some users think you could use it:

• at the beginning of a creative process
• if you are stuck in the process
• to exercise brain jogging
• as a source of inspiration
• hack your design habits

At first you need a topic you are interested in or dealing with. This can be e.g. a reopening of a bar, climate change, the mediation of a certain content, etc.
Then you can explore by yourself or try a randomizer.

Working with THE LISTS demands a certain interest towards the new / the foreign.

Also a willingness to make mistakes, to think out of the box and to take notice coincidence can also be a designing factor is there for recommended.

A. You can explore all creation techniques and outputs by browsing and filtering them.

B. If you want to get inspired by a third party or exercise a bit of creative brain jogging: Try our different randomizers! They will set you predefined outputs or creation techniques.

Yes.
By clicking on “Favorite” (on the left side)  you add a technique or output to your list.
At the bottom of every page you find the button “my favorites”. Click on it and you will have an overview of your most liked ones.

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The system the randomizers are based is:
TOPIC + CREATION TECNIQUE = OUTPUT

NOTE: 
working with the randomizers will not always give you a logical result (for everyone). If you are not happy with it, just replay, browse techniques/outputs by yourself or choose another randomizer option.

your could see the creation process simplified like this:

TOPIC + CREATION TECNIQUE = OUTPUT

TOPIC:
Working with THE LISTS this term means:
a topic you are interested in or dealing with. This can be e.g. a reopening of a bar, climate change, the mediation of a certain content, etc.

CREATION TECHNIQUE:
A creation technique in this context means: HOW (with a certain hands-on technique of creating something) you produce.

OUTPUT:
This means the form(at) of the end result.

NOTE: some outputs can also be seen as a creation technique and reverse. E.g. a documentary film can be the end result or the medium (technique) leading to an end result.

No and it probably never will be.

THE LISTS database lives with inputs from different perspectives of people, so you are kindly invited to contribute and share your known creation techniques and output types or add related inspirations to existing techniques or outputs. Let’s keep THE LISTS growing!