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The Better Mind Map: a quick technique to organise thinking and boost creativity
Sketching ideas
- Divide a piece of paper into six sections.
- Dedicate each section to a sketched idea, based on a single trigger from your Better Mind Map
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The Better Mind Map
Combining the Mind Map Technique with the Creativity Triggers Technique.
The novelty of The Better Mind Map is in the custom triggers tailored to a specific challenge. It is a template that provides structure for your early thinking and customizable to suit your purposes.
How The Better Mind Map works
- Write your design challenge or problem in the center of a blank piece of paper and circle it.
- Add the following five Topic Areas around the central challenge: User needs, Inspiration, Constraints, Commercial drivers, Service design triggers.
- In the Service design triggers Area, Pick 3 triggers from Entertainment, Simplified/light, Adaptable, Economical, Integrated, Durable.
- Consolidate what you know about each topic area into 3 triggers each.
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“Normal linear note-taking and writing will put you into a semi-hypnotic trance, while mind mapping ..."
Tony Buzan -Inventor of Mindmapping
Simple mind map template
Mind maps can become quite expansive and elaborate. To simplify, start with a simple mind map template.
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The 2 goals of effective brainstorming:
- Defer judgment (don’t get upset when people say bad ideas).
- Reach for quantity (come up with as many ideas as possible).
Obstacles to an effective brainstorming:
- Fear of judgment from people in positions of power;
- Extroverts take center stage;
- Groups hate scary ideas, even it they're great ones;
Steps of the creative process
- Preparation: individual study to focus your mind on the problem;
- Incubation: the problem enters your unconscious mind and nothing appears to be happening externally;
- Intimation: you get a “feeling” that a solution is on the way;
- Illumination: your creative idea moves to conscious awareness;
- Verification: your idea is consciously verified, expanded upon, and then executed.
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Divergent Thinking
Is the ability to generate many ideas or solutions from a single idea or piece of information.
It’s thought to be one of, if not the most, important factor in creativity.
Convergent Thinking
Is the ability to take many pieces of information or data and generate one solution.
It is largely taught and encouraged in schools and workplaces.
Exercising Divergent Thinking
- The Many Uses Exercise: Pick an ordinary object, set a timer for 5 minutes and try to come up with as many alternative uses for a paperclip as you can.
- 10 New Ideas: Every day for a week, try to come up with 10 new ideas within a specific topic or category.
- Daily Headlines: Imagine that your day was a news story in the New York Times. What would the headline be?
- Articles on Trial: Challenge the conclusion of articles you read by coming up with one question you’d like to ask the author.
- Start to notice your automatic thoughts and generate alternatives to them.