Futuring ideas

Ideation is the key for better designs to come. Let ideas unlock the door!

Ideas shine

Design is often referred to as a problem-solving activity. Ideation, however, is also about opportunity: seize the chance to shine!

Delightful ideation

In ideation order and disorder come very close. But is ideation biased towards order and therefore primarily an intellectual activity? If so, does ideation offer more intellectual than emotional excitement? Or does ideation constitute a primeval experience of both intellectual and emotional delight? To find out, record or trace your ideation experience!

To ideate is to contextualise

Ideas reflect their ideators and contexts. All we have to begin with when we design products and services are contexts; notions of what might work and what might not. Until we actually contextualise our ideas, we can never know for sure how successsful they will be. To ideate, then, is to contextualise; to use our knowledge, experience and intuition to generate, develop and communicate ideas in their surroundings.

Ideas foundation

Where ideas are weak you may need a stronger ideation structure. So establish a robust foundation of ideation tools for you to build upon.

Ideator's edge

Ideators know their stuff. They have fully invested in deepening their knowledge and improving their ideation skills, and it really shows. Never to become complacent, though, you will need to continue on your knowledge-seeking adventure in order to keep that ideation edge!

Telling ideas

Frame your idea using ideation tools. Then story-board or animate your idea and tell it in the spirit of story telling.