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Enhancing Your Creativity

Tips and tricks for generating ideas.

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Definition?

That thing you do before innovation

A process of generating new ideas

The ability to think

Making new associations of existing ideas or concepts


Some Theory:

4 Universally agreed stages Clarify

Ideate

Develop

Implement


The Killers


Just a few…

Fear

Lack of stimuli

Negativity

Ego

Avoiding critique


The Enablers


Just a few…

Collaboration

Willing to make mistakes

Giving your ideas space and time

Good Research

Knowing yourself, your flaws, your biases


Tools


Your mind

A sketch pad is a good thing to have

Something to instantly record events – a camera

The most important tool is the idea


The 4R’s

Re-Expression

Related World

Revolution

Random Links


The Concept:

Future of Web Design


Re-Expression

Take your problem & reword it

Make it a personal request

Give it weight

A mission statement

Represent it as a song


Related World

Think of somewhere in the real world with a solution to your problem, represent it with a word

Brainstorm around the word

Pick your favorite word and relate it back to the brief.


Revolution

Think of the rules of a genre

Rules/Break them/Idea


Rules Break them Idea

Random links

Start with an object or image

Call out what it makes you think

Pick one of the words and relate it back to the original brief


My image


Random link word generation

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Imagination is Intelligence

having fun


Dan Silvers – Ted


The concept of silence


References

Paul Bennett – Ideo

@ptolipan

Whatifinnovation.com

Linda Green – Creative Development Network -BBC


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