Co-ideation

Although ideation is a way of creative thinking and expression that tends to focus on individual rather than communal activity, it can be beneficial for students to co-ideate, or to experience what I call co-ideation. The reason for this is that when students help each other to ideate (typically in pairs or groups of 4 - 6 students), they go through an intellectual and emotional learning process that help clarify their own thinking and understanding of ideation. Similarly, and as designers typically design for others, co-ideation with stakeholders (non-designers), may help designers find out what stakeholders think, what they value, and what would be useful to them.

Ideation and language

We don't need logic to generate smart ideas. But intuition doesn't diminish the significance of thought, and language is necessary to communicate our ideas to anyone else.