What do you get when you mix systematic inventive thinking, a funky digital 
interface and a little party fun? You get the PIG - Party Idea Generator - SIT’s first ever iPhone app. Eight months in the making, PIG is the “baby” of SIT’s Futures, the team responsible for extending SIT’s know-how into exciting new areas, in collaboration with developer Vevent.
The PIG developed from the idea of finding a way to use SIT’s thinking methodology to apply innovation to everyday tasks. This new application helps users unleash their imagination and generate original ideas for their next party.
Using a series of fun triggers based on the Subtraction and Multiplication tools, PIG users can “invent” with everyday party items (e.g. Guests, Drinks, Music), transforming them into wild and wacky themes and activities for their party.
Here are two examples of different kinds of triggers generated when the user chooses to work with the “food” item – one is more open and the other is more directional:
a. “Trigger for Thought: At your party everyone will be eating their favorite food. How can you make this happen?”
b. “Retirement Party- The theme of your party is going to be an elderly party. Everyone will have to come dressed up as an old person, only soft foods will be served and the party will end at a reasonable time…”
“As well as being a useful tool for spicing up your party, we also want the PIG to leave users with the realization that they can be really creative and inventive thinkers”, said a source close to the PIG.
To experience the PIG in action, you can either download it at iTunes App Store or visit the PIG’s website.
I’m curious to learn more about your future Idea Generators. I assume that the SIT methodology can be used for many similar application that can help people generate original and creative ideas in many different areas. So, what’s next?
A few ideas:
A.JIG - Job finding idea Generator: this tool can help job seekers to think of creative ideas for grabbing the attention of potential employers.
.B. DIG- Dating Ideas Generator - original ideas for winning the heart of your loved ones…
C. VIG – Vacation Ideas Generator
And in a more professional direction, what do you think about the CIG - Convention Idea Generator - the tool that can assist in planning original business conventions?
PIG has even more mileage:
. Platter Ideas Generator - for confused cooks
. Poem IG - poet’s block
. Plot IG - for the next big blockbuster movie
. Playlist IG - DJ helper
….
Thanks Curious and Haluk
We actually did an FFF exercise, taking all the letters of the alphabet and asking ourselves what aig big cig dig etc could be.
I think the next one we are contemplating is the MIG as in Meeting IG. because we thought that brings us closer to “our” world. But we definitely got some new ideas for thought here from you guys. thanks.