• Visual divide between people in the room and the people on screen

• Hats were signifying people wearing different hats/playing different roles: symbolizing facilitator, moderator, etc.

• People talking, speech bubbles, shouting lines conveying verbal communication

• Lot of clocks: signify time

• Images of lighthouse

Use exercise as a product brainstorm

• sketch out ideas: product line you're generating ideas around

• draw our particular features people would be interested in a product

• simple activity to get people visually experience our product in a same way

• no words challenge was... challenging! Forces to visualize

Great exercise for changing the energy in the room:

• silent, but focused

• great for people who don't want to share ideas out loud, and different communication style preferences

• Captain obvious: there's a lot going on without words. Intended to be abstract, and brainstorms are also intended to be abstract: low-stakes

• Consensus: people value connection