- Team members will write down their ideas or facts all on different sticky notes
- In a usability session: team members write down observations, ideas, or findings on different sticky notes
- In an ideation workshop: attendees write down each idea on a separate sticky note

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- Before the meeting
- Generating sticky notes
- Organizing the sticky notes into groups

Steps in the Affinity Diagramming Process

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

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

Generating Sticky Notes

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

Steps to Organizing Sticky Notes

- Find a room that has walls where the sticky notes can be placed
- Think of a few categories to help facilitate sorting during the meeting
- Add a "?" category for notes that are not understandable

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