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Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
Purposedifferent
A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-101-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesHMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts
Tags1 shared
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions
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