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Creative thinking

Creativity is important in any kind of profession, whether it is some art profession or programming, medicine, biology….Creativity is important to help you solve any kind of a problem. Creativity is considered as a lateral thinking which is different than logical. Lateral thinking was discovered by Edward De Bono. It is also called horizontal thinking while logical thinking is called vertical thinking. Vertical thinking as the word is saying is moving vertical, it has a start point and is moving straight to the solution of the problem. On the other side, lateral thinking has a bit more complex path, moving in different directions, because it makes people think in all possible directions. Everyone can be creative, it is just a matter of practice and how to approach and make your brain work in that direction. There are five steps in a creative process that are going to be discussed in this essay, and those are preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and implementation.

In the first phase, preparation, we are preparing materials that could help us “to wake up” our creativity. Of course, it depends on what kind of creativity we are looking for. If you are a musician, you are going to listen to a different kind of inspirational music to create the new one on your own. If you are an artist, you will look at some artist’s photos, paintings or whatever can wake up your idea. If you are a writer, you will look for some of your favorite books and what you learned from there and what you can use in your own writing. Even doing this assignment, we passed through this step. We were reading different materials and watching videos in order to develop our thinking about creativity and to write this essay.

The next step is incubation. This is maybe the most difficult phase because it is just the beginning, so you need to find the right point from where you will start. You need to organize your thoughts and ideas from everything that you found in the previous step. It can be a chaos in your mind and you do not know how to use all that great material that you found in the previous phase, so this step can sometimes be very long.

The next stage is illumination. This is like a eureka phase. It can just happen anytime, it can just bump into your head in some unexpected time and you can think about how it did not come to your mind earlier. So, this means that the idea was born.

The next step is the evaluation. This can mean having a critique, whether it is a self-critique, or it is done by your customer or your peers. This will help you to improve your idea and move to the next phase.

The last step is elaboration. This is the stage where you actually start working on your own piece, start writing, or making your art, or composing your music…

Kevin Ashton wrote in his book that “Thinking is finding a way to achieve a goal that cannot be attained by an obvious action.” (How to Fly a Horse, pg.31). This is why you need to go through all these stages because thinking is a process, which means it needs some time to develop. Drew Boyd in his video explained what it means having creative thoughts. It means that they are new to you, that they are useful and innovative, and that they are surprising. Also, he stated that you need to ask yourself two important questions: the first one is should you do it? Is it something that is going to help people? And the second question is can you do it? Is it something that is possible for you to make it? These are very helpful questions that you need to ask yourself through your process of creating.

References:

Book – How to fly a Horse by Ashton Kevin,

Internet - https://smallbusiness.chron.com/5-steps-creative-process-model-10338.html

https://www.edwddebono.com/lateral-thinking

Creative Thinking essay

Creative thinking is seen as a way of looking into problems or situations from a unbiased perspective. Creative thinking is also seen as being the companion of critical thinking. Which are both ways of getting your creative juices flowing. Some have a hard time getting those juices flowing and that can be because you are coming from a biased perspective and you need to clear your mind or simple because your not stimulating your creative thinking process. Fixing both of those things can help set you up to be successful in any situation and create wonderful things

In the college world creative thinking is very important because it helps us learn to think differently and not base our opinions on the past.

I believe college is a place where you learn about different creative thinking skills and build on top of those. LumenLearning.com goes into detail about different styles of creative thinking and why it is beneficial. They state that “As a creative thinker, you are curious, optimistic, and imaginative. You see problems as interesting opportunities, and you challenge assumptions and suspend judgment. You don’t give up easily. You work hard.

It is very important to grow on your creative thinking skills since it is crucial in everyday life, especially when you get a job. In the artificial “Creative Thinking Skills” they state that walking around with an open mind in a working environment will get you further in life. Since your working with so many different people, minds ,and cultures you will be force into situations that force you to act with a clear mind. I Personally agree, when trying to fix a problem, whether it is a art problem or medical problems, you cannot go into the fight thinking there is only one answer and one solution. You have to have the mindset that the goal is to just fix the problem not to make your solution fit the problem.

How do you stimulate creative thinking? For me to get my mind stimulated i have to put myself in nerve racking situations. I believe fear and confusion can bring up brain activity. The youtube video i found called “how to stimulate the creative process by HOWcast” explains that messing with the 5 senses can help the stimulating process. Especially for artists observing your surroundings, events, and nature around you can lead to stimulation. Mind-mapping is something artists do naturally that is actually a very common stimulant. Mind mapping can be done in different ways like:drawing images in different situations to view it from all perspectives, or making a visual word list. The key to stimulating your creative thought process is to find out what strategy works best for you.

In conclusion creative thinking is a technique or style that mental gets you ready for any situation. Instead of making the problem about right or wrong from the jump it sets you up to attack the problem with a clear mind so reaching the solution is smooth.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-collegesuccess-lumen1/chapter/creative-thinking-skills/

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/creative-thinking.html

Skylar Schexnayder

Imaging, 1302

12/10/2018

Caleb Horn

Human Centered Design

Human centered design deals with humans and the framework of design. The focus of this design type is to create solution to problems involving the human vision and mindset. All aspects of this design type are controlled by the human’s problem-solving skills. The main focus for human centered design is (according to Wikipedia) “methodologies and techniques for interacting with people in such a manner as to facilitate the detection of meanings, desires and needs, either by verbal or non-verbal means.” The main points talked about in the articles I read had to deal with Observation, Ideation, Implementation, Iteration, User Feedback, Rapid Prototyping.

The observation aspect is the first step in the Human Centered Design process. This phase is about observing the end user’s response to what is created. Then after observing the end user you must be open to change, or creative diversity based on user feedback. The goal of this process is to understand what the people you are designing for are looking for. The last part of this step is putting yourself into the user’s shoes and seeing what you could have made better or different. Identifying what you could have changed to have a more successful product from the eyes of your buyer.

The second step of the Human Centered Design process is the ideation phase. In the ideation step you will focus on brainstorming the ideas and techniques that you learned from the observation phase. This step is focusing on getting as many ideas down as possible. The most important aspect of this step is keeping the user’s desires in mind when creating these ideas. Keeping the aspects that the user finds important when thinking of new ideas will allow you and your team to find the best solution for the problem at hand.

The third phase in the Human Centered Design process is the prototype step. In the prototype phase you will focused on building a simple but effective prototype. Having a prototype will allow you to have hands on test abilities and viewing what the user will be able to obtain. It is important that the prototype is done quickly and not overdone. The main reasoning for the quickest prototype is having the product being able to be consumed as quickly as possible. The quicker the product is able to be consumed the quicker the user feedback with come.

The fourth step in the Human Centered Design process is the feedback stage. The feedback step is the most important phase of this Design process. It is important to take into consideration every input that you receive from the end-users. You have to listen to your users to apply what they have suggested into the final solution.

The fifth step of the Human Centered Design process is the Iteration phase. In the feedback stage you must let the critique from users fuel the changes you will make on your design. It is important to keep iterating, integrating and testing user feedback until you have found your solution. This process might take longer than most of the phases before, but something will be learned through every iteration of the solution. After finding the solution you are ready to move onto the final step in the Human Centered Design process.

Angelina Lodes

12.10.18              

Imaging 1, Caleb Horn

Design Writing no.2

               Creative thinking is a way of looking at problems from a different and unique perspective to develop innovative ideas. Creative thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured process such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such as lateral thinking. Lateral thinking is the process of solving problems from an indirect and creative approach, and usually involves using nontraditional steps to solving a problem. There are four steps to the creative thinking process and out of those four I believe the most important one is preparation.

               First, no good idea comes from just one brainstorming session. Great ideas come from multiple resources including your own mind, nature, other people’s thoughts and input, and observing the world around you. Noticing things that may have gone undetected in the past or looking at the problem from different perspectives help give the designer a more rounded collection of data to use. You don’t even have to start with an idea in the preparation phase, all you need is something to write down thoughts and information and you can start by going on a walk or checking out a new store. Even the grocery store can be an excellent place to do your creative thinking while grocery shopping. Start looking at the places you go to daily in new perspectives and the ideas will just start flowing. It doesn’t take a million places, only a million ideas.

               Secondly, gathering information is just the beginning of the preparation stage. After all that can be possibly gathered from the resources around you, then comes the organizing phase. You read, sort, organize, and outline it all to help you in the next stage, incubation. The Peak Performing Arts Center had an interesting article on the creative process and emphasized that “you cannot just hope for inspiration to strike, you have to plan and prepare for creativity.” Preparation is the key for success for anything you do. Whether you are cooking, cleaning, or creating, you need to prepare for every one of those situations

               Lastly, before coming to the incubation stage, a designer must make sure they have exhausted all their preparation resources, then start building ideas. While gathering information you may come across an unusual finding that may make for a good design product. It is important to note all thoughts while gathering information, so you can go back and expand them even further. What you thought was a silly idea could turn out to be the best idea you have, it’s all about changing your perspective.

               In conclusion, all the steps of creative thinking are important, but preparation is what sets you up for success or failure in any circumstance. Gather as much information as possible and become acquainted with what it is you are trying to solve. Without preparation, creative thinking will not be successful.

Strokes — Lines — Scratchs

The IDEO methodology: 

1. Understand…

the market, the client, the technology, and the perceived constraints on the problem. Later in a project, we often challenge those constraints, but it’s important to understand current perceptions.

2. Observe and research…

real people in real-life situations to find out what makes them tick: what confuses them, and what they like, what they hate, where they have latent needs not addressed by current products and services. 

3. Visualize…

new-to-the-world concepts and the customers who will use them. Some people think of this step as predicting the future, and it is probably the most brainstorming-intensive phase of the process. 

4) Evaluate and refine…

the prototypes in series of quick iterations. 

5) Implement…