Sketchplanations

Explaining one thing a week in a sketch

The Smart Little People problem-solving method from TRIZ: someone wonders how little people would solve a technical problem of fixing a leak

Smart little people

I love the Smart Little People problem-solving tool from TRIZ that invites you to compose your problem of smart little people and ask, “What would they do?”

Smart Little People is one of a suite of psychological inertia tools for unblocking your thinking and giving you new ways to look at solving a problem.

In the sketch, I was trying to illustrate how they might find a solution to a cut with what is effectively a clot.

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