Designer's thinking Skills: the way to be active in thinking

Article Description: can't find the inspiration? Look at these tips for activating your mind.

Are you or have you ever faced a similar problem with the following:

Big Black: Icon Basically is long such son of AH (such as voice icon is usually microphone)!! What else can be painted!!
and write the copy again, think about it, in addition to the beginning of the thought of those few copy, never thought of other.
When brainstorming, people can always write a lot of things quickly, but they can't hold out an idea.
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Yes, active thinking, for designers, is very important, but the designer is just a normal person, it is inevitable that there will be a short brain, the brain jams.

So, here are some tips for you. Hope that in active thinking, can give you some help.

Tips for Active thinking:

The relevance of Things

Mainly from the three aspects of the thing to start--"opposite", "close", "related".
For example, when we are exposed to "fire" related topics, we can think of "water", "light", "heat".

Two or five sense

The five senses that people are born with are actually quite good tools. The so-called Five senses, is-see, listen, smell, taste, touch.
If you don't have any thoughts on a thing, start with five senses, and you may find that the source of inspiration will continue to emerge in your mind.

Third, 5w3h

If the previous two methods do not work, there is a trick--5w3h analysis method.

Its specific contents are as follows:

5w:why (why), what (what), who (WHO), where (where), when (time)
3h:how (How to do), how to many (how many), how feel (feel)

5W3H, also known as the "eight-way analysis", is often used in business and market analysis, and it works well in active thinking.

Skill Practice

The so-called practice of genuine knowledge, we may wish to use the following exercises to see how much people grasp the extent. If you are in the process of thinking, you really hit the brain jams, you can review the above content, but also to verify the effectiveness of the above methods.

Problem:

1. Description of the object

Please say 10 things related to "passion".

2.22 Association

Please find out the 15 common areas of the following two items.

3. Lenovo Solitaire

Please take the "snow-capped mountains" as the title, the Association of Solitaire, let the head of the Random association, the only requirement: the same thing as before must have a certain correlation.
Such as: Snow Mountain-water-H2O ....

The following is a reference to the exercise:

1. Fire, desert, Sun, Sen-ba Dance, grass skirts, summer, sandy beaches, red lips, unrestrained, hospitable

2. Commodity, quantity, variety, quantity production, touch, shiny, warm colors, can be free collocation combination, small fresh, there is price, the relevant shops everywhere, the production process requires a certain procedure, can sell money, dead things, processing products, fall will be broken, the object itself will not emit sound ...

3. Snow-capped mountains-Arctic-sea lions-Ocean Park-Hong Kong-Redbud

Conclusion

Having an active mind means that we can have more possibilities and find more breakthroughs, of course, the way and methods of active thinking are much more than that, if you are interested, you can also try our isux five-D creative card: isux.tencent

Hopefully, these skills will give you practical help in your life or work: