Reading Response: IDEO Human Centered Design - Mindsets - 2/27/19 9:35am
In this small chapter, we discuss the mindsets and mentality that a successful designer should have such as creative confidence, making our ideas tangible, empathy, learning from failure, ambiguity, optimism, and iteration. After reading this section, I would say that I completely agree with every one of these points. Through personal experience, I noticed that I often do better in projects and in fleshing out my ideas when I’m more comfortable and confident about my skills. I have a bad habit in that when I believe I have more experience or am technically more skilled than those around me, I tend to become more confident in my creativity and create great projects, but when I’m the one who feels like those around me are technically more advanced, I often shrink away from the scene as my confidence plummets and I’m often left with a lackluster end product. Since then, I’ve improved my creative confidence and became much more stable, but reading this reminded me of how maintaining this confidence is critical to creating new ideas and that I shouldn’t worry about it, because as long as I still create new ideas, my creative confidence will continue to grow. With the other aspects that were mentioned in the reading, I’d say that I also rely on learning from failure, ambiguity, and optimism. However, I was never great at the iteration process of design. As an introvert, I love staying hidden in my room and working on projects all alone with no feedback from others. I, myself, know that with input from others, it would really help develop aspects of my projects that I would have never thought of, and the text in the reading supports this idea as well. I’ll trying coming out of my shell more and asking other people’s perspectives of my design in order to create better projects in the future. Although I didn’t learn anything new in this reading, it did reaffirm my beliefs in the types of mindsets designers, including me, should have.
