In today's class, the majority of the time was spent learning rapid ideation techniques, and generating as many ideas as we could in small amounts of time. It was a way of getting all of your ideas out on the table, and it helps to avoid hesitating over a certain idea by just drawing it down to see how it looks.
At first, I started by drawing with a pencil, and found myself trying to perfectly draw out a few ideas, although the ideas were coming through quite slowly. However, Caroline insisted I used a Sharpie marker instead. Once I had the sharpie, and started scribbling down quick ideas that popped to my head, I found that I was beginning to generate ideas a lot quicker, which allowed me to see a whole range of ideas. Even though some weren't as good as others, it allowed me to conceptualize a whole range of ideas and then improve, change, and develop them in the following rapid ideation grids. The words I was given were 'Cup' and 'Balloon', and then the phrases I was given were "Like a pig in muck", "Put your cards on the table", and then as an extra for homework I decided to try out another of the quotes "a dog's breakfast". These rough sketches can be seen in my physical workbook.
I found myself generating pages and pages of ideas, all far quicker and far more successfully than when using a pencil. It's clear to see now that there's no idea spending a whole heap of time creating one initial idea, as there is a chance it won't turn out as effective as first thought and would've spent a lot of time on it, and meanwhile in the design industry, someone in the design industry would've whipped up at least 10 ideas in the same time. I found these ideation practices really fun and enjoyable, and it definitely helped me craft a lot more ideas, and I can see it playing a big role in my design future whenever I'm coming up with new ideas and concepts.
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