The Scale Violation — Pattern Interrupts trigger illustration
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PATTERN INTERRUPTS

THE SCALE VIOLATION

MECHANISM

Make things dramatically larger or smaller than they should be.

? THE QUESTION

"What happens when we make our benefit gigantic or microscopic?"

PROCESS

Work through these questions to generate ideas:

  1. What if the benefit was the size of a building?
  2. What if the problem was the size of a virus?
  3. What if the product was the size of a planet?
  4. What scale shift creates the most dramatic truth?

EXAMPLES

Ideas in this space might look like:

  • A Golf so quiet it's building-sized, tiptoeing through a city of sleeping people
  • A vitamin pill the size of a skyscraper showing its massive impact
  • A problem shrunk to the size of a dust particle, easily swept away

HOW IT WORKS

Your Product
YOUR PRODUCT
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THE QUESTION
"What happens when we make our benefit gigantic or microscopic?"
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Breakthrough Idea
BREAKTHROUGH IDEA

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES

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"What happens when we make our benefit gigantic or microscopic?"