Using Images as Metaphors for Creative Thinking
Metaphors are one of the most useful tools in creative thinking. Figures of speech, they are useful to compare different things. However, metaphors can also be used as a visual
Visual Thinking
Posts under Visual Thinking focus on how a person uses their vision as their primary sense to think, analyse, collaborate and critique. Feel free to use the Search bar to scan for relevant tags.
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By Andy Eklund
Best Online Collaboration Tools
Online collaboration tools are improving every day. There are the obvious ones, plus a few less common ones. By no means comprehensive, this list was originally gathered for my Design
How To Break A Creative Block
Sometimes there’s nothing more scary than a blank page. The act of creating – an idea, a thing, a solution – is tough enough, but made worse when we also
Mood Boards
Click here for Online Mood Boards Long a favourite of professional designers, mood boards are a curated collection of random images, words and textures brought into focus by a single reference point.
Use Mental Stimuli For Brainstorming
This post is #6 in a series from a presentation on Creative Slip-Ups: The 11 Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The Introduction to the series is here. The Problem: People brainstorm