Physical ideation

While the written design brief encourages responses using words (written and spoken), words alone are insufficient to express visual ideas. And so it is good ideation practice to remind oneself of the material aspects of design by using physical ideation tools such as pencils, card, modelling clay and scalpels for making drawings, collages or sketch models. That is, a reminder that ideation is also a physical hands-on activity, not just a verbal experience.