Category: Design Innovation

How non-designers can get innovative with Design.

8/23/2021

Foremost, it's important to know that design is about creating solution, it is about providing comfort, ease and simplicity. This simple thought should be what informs any design decision you will make.

You might wonder, should non-designers attempt to design at all? Well, there are situations where you’ll have to do things yourself, maybe just some basic design for something you need urgently, and you are stuck because you don't even know the first step to take or how to go about it.

These tips can help your thoughts and open your innovation:

Think about the problem the design will solve: Understanding the problem your design will solve will enable you know the functionalities of your design, for example even if it is something as setting up a design in your home, knowing its importance will open your mind to ideas, if it is to make the room less-boring, you already know, you are going to be using bright colors for whatever design plan you have, same goes for other kinds of design whether physical or digital, the why of the design defines the path of your innovation.

Think about the people it will reach or those that will see it: Apart from the problem your design will solve, you need to consider those you are designing for, you might not be able to tell all of their likes and dislikes, but you can think about the general idea of having the kind of design you have in mind, you can sample people’s opinions, it will help expand your thoughts.

Don’t be quick to edit your ideas: Any innovation will flow freely if you give yourself the liberty of exploring different ideas, innovation is not stereotyped, what you want to edit or see as a mistake might actually set a new style or approach to your design, let the ideas flow unrestricted at first, you can even try them out, then streamline to only those that meet your problem-solving requirements.

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The Design Thinking Culture.

8/23/2021

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Design Thinking is beyond a process for executing design projects, its processes can be devised as a strategy for solving complex problems even in our day-to-day activities. We live in a world where the problems we face are multi-faceted differing from personal issues to governmental issues affecting us, career issues and all kinds of social issues.

A design thinking culture starts from “Thinking-Through the Problem”, thinking through the problem is the activity require to know the weight of the problem, it enables you to feel the need for the solution which will in turn help how you can generate ideas for problem solving.
Following this, is sorting out thoughts to generate a solution, and feeling the weight of the problem is the empathy approach which will own turn birth Ideas on how to solve the Problem for us. Feeling the weight of the problem doesn’t imply sulking, rather it implies looking at the damages the problem can cause, feeling the extent of these damages, so ideas on how to resolve the problems can be birthed.

Also, iteration is important in problem solving, your solution might not work the first time, observe where things went wrong, tweak the solution to address what you didn’t see before and apply it again, you can even ask others about your solution, ask them what they would do if they were in your shoes, this would be you testing your “prototype” as it were.

The processes of Empathy, Ideation Definition, Iteration of Prototypes can be imbibed as a cultural approach to other issues that might surround us. A design thinking culture is possible if we constantly employ the processes for problem solving.

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How non-designers can get innovative with Design.

The Design Thinking Culture.

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