Six Thinking Hats

What is it?

Six Hats is an exercise used to turn initial thought-starters into more complete, fully thought through ideas. The exercise explores an initial idea from a variety of different perspectives and uses these to build out what it could look like, how it could work and what could go wrong.

When to use it?

When you have a range of distinct initial ideas and want to build them out to be something more complete. Typically you would do this once you have already filtered out the no-goes, and you’re ready to start going deeper on the ideas with the biggest potential.