This template helps teams generate a wide range of ideas using the Crazy Eights method, a fast sketching exercise where each person creates eight distinct ideas in eight minutes. It provides spaces to define the challenge, capture individual sketches, and then select the most promising concepts. By pushing for quantity over perfection, Crazy Eights helps break creative blocks, encourages unconventional thinking, and surfaces innovative directions quickly.
Generate eight distinct design concepts in eight minutes with this Crazy Eights rapid ideation template. A cornerstone exercise in design sprints and product design workshops, Crazy Eights forces designers and non-designers alike to sketch fast, think broadly, and push past their first obvious idea.
Ctrl/Cmd + D to duplicate the template for each personCrazy Eights works because time pressure defeats perfectionism. When you have 60 seconds per idea, your brain stops editing and starts generating. Eight sketches per person means a room of four produces 32 concepts in under 10 minutes.