Sharpie Kraft — Design Sprint Brainstorm Wall
A butcher-paper brainstorm wall recreated in slides — kraft fiber texture, chunky Sharpie headlines, and four pastel sticky-note clusters wired together by hand-drawn marker arrows. Feels like mid-workshop chaos, entirely by design.
This template believes that thinking out loud deserves a visual language as rough as the ideas themselves. It rejects the clean, finished deck that signals closure when the work is still generative and messy. Built for the whiteboard room — not the boardroom — it invites audiences to lean forward, grab a marker, and push the thinking further. Every imperfect stroke is a deliberate signal that iteration, not polish, is the currency of this room.
Good for
- · Design-thinking workshop openers and team brainstorm kickoffs
- · Problem-framing slides with sticky-note theme clusters and connecting arrows
- · Innovation sprint retrospectives surfacing and grouping raw insights
- · Affinity mapping results presented live in cross-functional team reviews
Avoid for
- · Executive board decks requiring formal, polished visual authority
- · Chart-heavy quarterly business reviews with dense KPI tables
- · Client-facing pitch decks for conservative industries such as finance or legal
- · High-resolution print handouts where paper-texture artifacts read as print defects
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