Tag: visual thinking

The best online collaborative tools are becoming more and more part of our every-day world as people find ways to become even more productive, either at work or for their

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

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation, said Plato. When was the last time you attended a business meeting

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

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

Use Mental Stimuli to Brainstorm is Post #6 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here.

Sometimes, to find your idea, you need to get away from it. It’s sort-of like looking for love. Last week, I overheard two people moaning about their inability to find a

Jump to Instructions Whenever I need to brainstorm an idea – either by myself, or with a group of people – I pull out flash cards that I’ve made or

Jump to Instructions As a way to get the creative juices flowing, I often talk in brainstorms about focusing on the problem – whether it’s defining it, organising them into groups,