Design Thinking_Generating Ideas

Generating Ideas

Brainstorming

Push past obvious solutions to come up with breakthrough ideas

rules for brainstorming

Stay focused on the topic - Keep your challenge (initial question) in your mind

Encourage wild ideas - Give way to creative leaps - Imagine what you want without constraints of technology and material

Postpone Judgement - Accept all ideas, and build on them

Build on ideas or others - Be positive - Instead of but, use "yes, and..."

rules for brainstorming

Be visual - Put your ideas on post its and paste them where they are visible

One conversation at a time - The whole team should be paying full attention to be able to make a creative leap

Go for quantity - Aim for many ideas as possible

BUNDLE IDEAS

A game of mix and match, consolidate your thinking into a few concepts.

1. Cluster similar ideas into groups 2. Discover similar patterns and themes, start translating them into solutions 3. Check against your system limitations and consider which one adjusts the besT

Concept = Solution

A concept is a more polished and complete than an idea. Something you would like to prototype and test. This is the moment you move from problem to solution.

CREATE A CONCPET

A game of mix and match, consolidate your thinking into a few concepts.

1. Review your idea bundles 2. Start visualizing the solution (sketching if necessary) 3. Keep referring to your design Challenge - Are you answering it? - Are there elements missing in your solution? - What else can you incorporate?

** In this case you will check your concepts against the Biomimicry nature's patterns and the sustainable criteria of the product cycle (destiny, user, delivery, printing)

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