You can download a pdf version of the OpenIDEO Design Challenge Card Prototype here:
http://www.openideo.com/open/impact/winning-concepts/openideo-design-challenge-card/

Hi Avi, Congratulations! Can't wait to see the prototype. I would even love an unlaminated version that explains the OpenIDEO process to people in easy steps.

Go Avi – great work on this winning concept! I feel like pulling out an accordion and playing a celebratory song (unfortunately my concertina skills are a bit rusty ;^)

I love the simplicity of this design, but what grabs me when I read the comments here is the speculative nature of what's being said.

It occurs to me that this would be a relatively simple thing to make up a couple prototypes and go out and test how people would use it.

Has anyone done that?
(I'm new to this OpenIDEO community but a big fan of IDEO, apologies if this question is counter-intuitive)

i think is a definite do-it-anyway kind of concept. what do i mean? i think no matter what, this is something the brilliance of avi and some of the oi community can prototype and pull together in less than a week! avi i love the feasibility, viability, and awesome of it

. Ah! I find this a really fun concept! - I like it a lot because building this type of materials is really useful to our everyday work as designers, concept-ers, etc… Also helps to other people new or outside the field or this methods to know how to go about it and contribute as well!

. Here is a a crazy thought inspired by your concept… Imagine we put this cards at train stations… You are invited to participate you pick up the card, get inspired during your journey, do the thinking and at the end of your train journey you drop it as soon as you get off the train. There is a drop box on the train stations and we (the people looking after these cards) take care of scanning it and posting it to the OpenIDEO site…. While traveling (in Europe or other continents) - we spend a lot of time commenting but the scenery and people around us are always super inspiring! …. hence the comment here... True that a mobile Ap might be easier to manage... yet there is quite something in using paper and markers...

. Big supporter of using laminated cards - material! - Wipe off for reuse! -- very congruent with sustainable design practices.

Avi, what about allowing each user to have a "resource page" where each user can upload resources they found useful for social goods in general. OpenIDEO can have a section that pulls good resource from personal resource page with some curation to show good inspiration / ideas so it would be a good knowledge library for the community during challenge or in preparation of future challenges.

I think this is a promising idea, but I also think it has limitations.

Certainly it would be useful for OpenIDEOs in terms of helping them to engage in challenges when they are away from the computer screen. I could imagine myself using it on the train, on the airplane, etc.

But I think anybody not already familiar with the process and the intent of OpenIDEO would struggle, and if we were to try to add the necessary detail required then this becomes a small manual rather than an engaging handout.

I also think that placing them in train stations, etc. sounds good in principle but the return would be very small.

Am I just being a killjoy?....no, there is some experience here.

At my last company in one of the crowdsourcing challenges I ran we were keen to try to reach the employees who were not online in their daily work.

We launched the challenge online to 2,000 people and handed out 5,000 A5 "idea forms" to be distributed amongst 3,000 shop floor workers. One side described what we were looking for, what would happen to their idea, and so on. We also briefed all of their managers at a 'town hall' meeting, put it in the company magazine and did some briefings to the folks on the shop floor.

From the 2,000 online people we got about 240 ideas and a huge amount of collaboration and builds.

From the 3,000 shop floor people we got 17....and those people had limited chance to collaborate unless they also decided to go online (most likely from home).

It is only one instance but it taught me a lot. I felt that we had tried to make a square peg fit a round hole (making the online engagement work offline), and at the end of the day the effort involved had not justified the return.

What I like about this is that I can take it with me anywhere, on the subway, while waiting in an airport, share it with friends, colleagues or family... It could even be a great tool for a teacher in the classroom. Simple and effective!

I applaud the instinct to make OI challenges more widely accessible, but I'm struggling to understand how this would actually hold up, because challenges are constantly in motion. I see that people could add their own inspiration or concepts in this offline manner, but half the fun is being inspired by the other concepts that are posted daily. How does one capture that in a single printing? And, what's to say that someone's idea isn't similar to something going online, and the person misses out on a great opportunity for collaboration?
I think these cards are a fantastic and engaging idea, I just don't think we should construe it as a means of aiding participation in OI challenges, at least not directly. Perhaps they're instead the perfect solution for some of the offline community-based setting that other concepts have proposed.

I'd love to see both - The digital version on a mobile app and the moleskin version - "hell yeah" :)

It feels as though this could be used as a tool within a couple of the other concepts. I agree with Sina, it's definitely a "do-it-anyway" concept, and seems like it would be a great tool for Chloe's OpenIDEO ambassadors and Anjelika's Local Chapters. There's something very non-threatening about having this physical gateway to the challenges, which means that those who don't necessarily feel inclined to join the community can still have valuable input through ambassadors and other OpenIDEATORS.

Flatland, A romance of many dimensions uses the accordion book format, it's quite cool how pages interact with each other. http://j.mp/r7jYL8

Pop-up!
http://j.mp/qY7aO4

Just re-reading this little rockstar of a concept again as I come to the Evaluation phase. Also made me think that the simplicity of this holds inspiration for what might be included in an OpenIDEO mobile app.

Loving the non-digital goodness on this one – and huge cheer for accessibility! Way to go Avi.

Love it. So accessible!