There are two ways to determine which findings have the most importance:

- Severity: The meeting leader reads each finding and the attendees vote by a show of hands if it is a high, medium, or low priority, and the rating with the most votes is assigned to that sticky note

- Points: Each person gets a limited number of important points (usually 3). They can assign the points to the items they think need to be addressed. If they think the note is extra important, they can assign multiple points to one.

Usability-Test Findings

Design ideas from ideation workshops can be voted on to find out which might be the most valuable idea. There are two ways to find the importance of ideas:

- One-Hundred-Dollar Test: The team members get $100 to split among the generated ideas. This forces people to think about each design's value 
- NUF (New, Useful, Feasible): Each idea is rated on a scale of 1-7 for the three attributes: Whether the team members have seen that particular design before, whether the idea is useful and it solves a problem, and how feasible is it for the team to work on and implement the idea

Design Ideation using Affinity mapping

Different methods for determining priorities are used depending on if the meeting is to analyze findings or organize new ideas.

- Usability testing
- Design Ideation

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- Sort notes into top-level categories
- Sort each category into subcategories
- Summarize the categories (Present)
- Determine priorities

Steps to Organizing Sticky Notes

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/affinity-diagram/ 

"Affinity Diagramming for Collaboratively Sorting UX Findings and Design Ideas" (Kara Pernice)

- Take a sticky note from the wall and read it
- Look for a category that it would make sense in and put the note there
- If there is a note in the category that says the same thing, stack them on top of each other with the most descriptive note on top
- If the note you have does not match an existing category, think of a new category and announce it to team members
- If you cannot understand the note, put it in the "?" category to examine at the end

Sort Sticky Notes into Top-Level Categories

- Every team member chooses a category to work on
- Look for related themes within this category and form these themes into subcategories
- Try not to be idle during this step. If you finish with your category help someone else who is still working

Sort Sticky Notes into Subcategories

- Read each of the findings and subcategories found
- Groups go around and all summarize the categories they worked on

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