Affinity Diagram

What is an Affinity Diagram?
An Affinity Diagram organizes a large number of ideas into their natural relationships.
Why an Affinity Diagram?
An Affinity Diagrams is used as a means to organize or achieve ‘sense-making’ from a large set of needs, ideas or design concepts.
Procedure
Best Practices
Demo Video
This video gives you a walk-through on how to create and use an Affinity Diagram, through a worked example of a Autonomous Vehicle Design Challenge.

Examples
Here are examples of Affinity Diagrams, with clustered needs.
References
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Affinity Diagram - Design Thinking Book. (2016, February 02). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ewWFFe-243s
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Mitchell Thieman. (October 14, 2018) "Designing the Online Shopping Experience". Retrieved from https://www.mitchellthieman.com/portfolio/karavel-shoes
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Teo, K., Wee, Y., Swee, A., Altybayeva, A., Gopal, M., Kamiso, N., Foo, D., Lauff, C., Wood, K.L., “Design Innovation (DI) Learning Modules,” SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC), SUTD, Singapore, idc.sutd.edu.sg, 2018.
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PathMaker: An online tool to help with brainstorming and affinity diagramming