“Thinking Outside the Box”
Written by bethany on July 20th, 2009
According to Wikipedia: Thinking outside the box is to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective. The challenge is to connect the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines that pass through each of the nine dots, and never lifting the pencil from the paper.
Nine Dots Puzzle
This phrase, “Thinking Outside the Box,” is used so often in Design, Marketing and Management courses. SO often in fact, that to me, it’s lost the PUNCH. It’s almost traditional, expected and normal when starting something new. We are not designing with 9 dots. When it comes to thinking differently, Marty Neumeier suggests the need for RADICAL differentiation in his book ZAG. Radical differentiation is the art of standing out, VERY different, suprising and sometimes looked at as weird. Either way, both “thinking outside the box” and Marty’s take on Radical differentiation are concepts for achieving creative solutions. I just like to point out that it’s not always a box.
For those of you dying to figure out the puzzle…..(smile), here is one option:
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