The document introduces Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats framework for facilitating feedback and brainstorming meetings. It explains that the framework divides thinking into six "hats" - blue for moderation, red for emotions, white for facts, green for ideas, yellow for benefits, and black for caution. It then provides examples of how to structure a meeting using the hats, such as starting with blue hat sharing, then moving to red hat reactions, and cycling through the other hats to generate and critique ideas. The document concludes by offering contact information for questions about implementing Six Thinking Hats.

1. por Itamar Medeiros
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My name is Itamar Medeiros
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Designing Interactions:
Six Thinking Hats
Learning Outcomes
§ You will learn how to use The Six Thinking
Hats to help facilitate Feedback /
Brainstorming Meetings
Class Outline
§ Edward De Bono’s Lateral Thinking
§ A Brainstorming Framework
§ Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
§ Exercise

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Shneiderman, B. (February 1999), Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for
Supporting Innovation, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 7, 1 (March 2000),
114-138.
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Six Thinking Hats:
Edwards De Bono
Created several thinking Tools, such as Six
Thinking Hats1, Lateral Thinking2 and Power of
Perception3 Thinking Tools
1. de Bono, E. (1985). Six Thinking Hats, Back Bay Books; 2 edition (August 18, 1999).
2. de Bono, E., (2015). Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, Harper Colophon; Reissue
edition (February 24, 2015)
3. de Bono Consulting, (2009). “Power of Perception”,
http://www.debonoconsulting.com/images/power-of-perception.pdf retrieved Oct 11th, 2010

6. De Bono, E, (1999), Six Thinking Hats, Back Bay Books; 2 edition
(August 18, 1999)

7. This system is a simple and practical way to
enable the team to become more objective
when viewing ideas or problems;
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Six Thinking Hats:
A Brainstorming Framework

8. This enables the team to looking at
what could be rather than what is.
Six Thinking Hats:
A Brainstorming Framework
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9. Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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The value system of each hat needs to be
promoted and this should be covered early in
the session/meeting you’re planning to
conduct using this framework, so that
participants become more open to suggestion
and feel positive about any feedback they
receive/give

10. Overview or process control
Logical and positive
Why will it work?
Who will it benefit?
Objective facts and figures
What is needed?
How can it be found?
Intuition, feelings and emotions
Creativity, alternatives, provocations
Judgement, caution, negative views,
weak points
Blue: Summarise
Yellow: Benefits
White: Facts
Red: Gut Feelings
Green: Idea
Generation
Black: Drawbacks

11. Blue Hat
Moderation

12. Red Hat
Gut Feelings

13. Red Hat
Emotions & Feelings

14. Red Hat
The Place for Emotions in Thinking

15. Red Hat
Intuition and Hunches

16. Red Hat
No need to justify

17. Red Hat
How to I feel about this matter?

18. White Hat
facts

19. White Hat
What information do we have?

20. White Hat
What information do we need?

21. White Hat
What information is missing?

22. White Hat
What questions do we need to ask?

23. White Hat
How are we going to get
the information we need?

24. Green Hat
Creativity, alternatives, Provocations

25. Green Hat
New Ideas, new concepts and new percep0ons

26. Green Hat
The logic of the absurd

27. Green Hat
Movement instead of Judgement

28. Black Hat
Drawbacks

29. Black Hat
Cautious and Careful

30. Black Hat
Pointing out difficulties and problems

31. Black Hat
The Past and the Future

32. Black Hat
The Problem with Overuse

33. Black Hat
Should we proceed with this idea?

34. Yellow Hat
Focus on benefits

35. Yellow Hat
Speculative-Positive

36. Yellow Hat
From hopeful to logical

37. Yellow Hat
Reasons for optimism

38. Yellow Hat
Making things happens

39. Blue Hat
Moderation

40. An example how to use the Six Thinking Hats
would be to moderate a feedback / design
review session:
§ Typically a project review or feedback
session will begin with an extended blue
hat action, as everyone gets “on the same
page” creating a shared vision of the issue
being addressed.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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41. An example of how to use the Six Thinking
Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design
review session:
§ The discussion may then move to red hat
thinking in order to collect opinions and
reactions to the problem. This phase may
also be used to develop constraints for the
actual solution, such as, who will be
affected by the problem and/or solutions.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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42. An example of how to use the Six Thinking
Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design
review session:
§ Next the discussion may move to the
yellow then green hat in order to generate
ideas and possible solutions.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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43. An example of how to use the Six Thinking
Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design
review session:
§ Next the discussion may move between
white hat thinking as part of developing
information and black hat thinking to
develop criticisms of the solution set.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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44. An example of how to use the Six Thinking
Hats would be to moderate a feedback / design
review session:
§ Then, at the end of the session, finally back
to the blue hat, to summarize what has
been discussed.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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45. Overview or process control
Logical and positive
Why will it work?
Who will it benefit?
Objective facts and figures
What is needed?
How can it be found?
Intuition, feelings and emotions
Creativity, alternatives, provocations
Judgement, caution, negative views,
weak points
Blue: Summarise
Yellow: Benefits
White: Facts
Red: Gut Feelings
Green: Idea
Generation
Black: Drawbacks

46. Use each hat for a few minutes at a time only,
except the red hat which is limited to a very
short 30 seconds, or so, to ensure that it is an
instinctive gut reaction, rather than a form of
judgments.
Six Thinking Hats:
Moderating Brainstorming Sessions
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47. Overview or process control
Logical and positive
Why will it work?
Who will it benefit?
Objective facts and figures
What is needed?
How can it be found?
Intuition, feelings and emotions
Creativity, alternatives, provocations
Judgement, caution, negative views,
weak points
Blue: Summarise
Yellow: Benefits
White: Facts
Red: Gut Feelings
Green: Idea
Generation
Black: Drawbacks

48. If you have questions about how to run a
meeting using The Six Thinking Hats
framework, feel free to contact me at:
Itamar Medeiros
http://www.designative.info/
http://twitter.com/designative
medeiros.itamar@gmail.com
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