Creativity
Research and practical experience agree: creativity thrives in short, focused exchanges. Long monologues, on the other hand, are the quickest way to kill creative momentum. Our real-time creativity dashboard shows whether your team's communication is on track to ignite great ideas. Sunny weather signals a rhythm that is likely to spark new thinking — and if the clouds roll in, the dashboard offers concrete recommendations to get the creative energy flowing again. For a deeper dive, the sequence diagram below the recommendations section lays out each person's contributions over time, so you can see at a glance whether the conversation is a lively back-and-forth or one person holding the floor.
Creativity Score
A weather-style indicator showing how lively the idea generation is right now. Sun means people are taking short turns and building on each other in quick exchanges. Clouds and rain mean the conversation has gone quiet, or one person has been holding the floor for a long stretch.
In a brainstorm it's normal to see this drop toward the end, when the group narrows down to a decision. A drop near the start is the one to watch for.
Live Recommendation
A nudge in the moment, focused on keeping ideas flowing. Typical suggestions: invite a quieter colleague to chime in, hold off on critiquing while ideas are still coming, or try a different format if the room has gone silent.
Your team creativity could be improved by ARAlex Rivera having shorter contributions.
Sequence Diagram
A timeline showing when each person spoke. Each row is one participant; the colored bars are the moments they were talking. Each participant has their own color, matching their avatar, so you can quickly track who spoke when.
A quick way to read it:
- Lots of overlapping bars across rows means people are building on each other in quick exchanges.
- Long stretches with only one row active means one person is holding the floor.
- Big gaps for some rows mean those people haven't had a chance yet.
- Alex Rivera
- Jordan Kim
- Priya Shah
- Sam Bauer
References
Highlighted references are peer-reviewed work published by Sunshine's founders.
- Pentland, A. Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread — the Lessons from a New Science; Penguin, 2014.
- Spielhofer, T., & Haselberger, D. (2023). Using digitally supported communication analysis to facilitate constructive discourse in educational courses. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2023 (pp. 44–53). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).