“Let’s use dot-voting to pick the brightest idea !!”
“Let’s use dot-voting to pick the next task to work on !!”
It’s colorful, and it’s fun to use, isn’t it ? Most innovation and design workshops use dot-voting, but frankly this tool frustrates me a lot.
Reasons being in most workshops the facilitator is not experienced enough to group the ideas / tasks and then asks the equally inexperienced workshop participants to make hasty business or product decisions, with risks of familiarity bias and popularity bias.
If you have to do a voting, I would suggest to use quadratic voting method with online tools like Mentimeter.
Further reading : What’s Wrong with Dot Voting Exercises
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 