Mind map generation
A mind map is a form of ideas generation where you take the main subject, then stem off with 4 or 5 sub titles and then expand with lots of little detailed ideas. Then to create an idea, you take one detailed idea from each of the sub branches and combined them together. I have created mind maps using the software Inspiration 9 IE.
I feel that the mind map generation doesn't really work well for me. I found I a bit difficult to expand on my sub titles and create and idea out of my detailed expansions.
Team generation
We worked in small teams to come up with ideas for films and games with Ryan Holder. We generated ideas by talking to each other and to finalise 4 final ideas which we then presented to the rest of the class. We came up with two film ideas and two game ideas.
We also worked in a team of three where we constructed a tower out of newspaper which had to support a golf ball. Also we created a bridge from desk to desk using a newspaper which had to hold as many golf balls as possible. We worked together by following a plan-do-review approach. We generated ideas for the construction of both the bridge and the tower. We finalised on one idea and tried it out. Once we tried our idea, we reviewed it to see how we could improve our constructions. Our tower was successful and we looked at other peoples construction for influence but we felt our ideas was working well. In the end our tower idea was the best so there was no need to improve our idea, but there is always a way to improve something.
We generated ideas for our bridge and I feel we finalised on one idea to quickly, we reviewed that idea and it didn't work so we continued to generate ideas until we had an idea which worked better. We generated ideas for a strong structure but we failed to identify the problem of the golf balls not being able to stay on the bridge. Afterwards, we generated some good ideas to hold the golf balls in place like; curling to edges for small walls and to make some kind of cup for the golf balls to sit in.
I think the team generation was better than the mind map because we were constantly talking about new and different ideas and developing on ideas better because everyone was contributing interesting ideas, no one was taking control of the situation, we worked well together by talking and listening. Although at times we lost track of what we were doing and started to get distracted.
Design Process
The design process consisted of researching into artists or art movements and collecting images for inspiration whilst comparing and contrasting the artists and movements. We then took inspiration from the images collected and drew six credit card concepts. Combined to two art movements, creating weapons, characters, vehicles landscapes and buildings. After reviewing the six concept drawing, I finalised with one of my concept drawing and went ahead with the landscape and building. I did one concept drawing and felt I didn't create a good concept drawing and I could improve my idea further. I reviewed my six concept drawing and further generated ideas to create a final A5 concept drawing.
I felt this way of generating ideas worked the best for my compared to the mind map and the team generation. I found it easy to draw do different ideas which were combined by artists or art movements. To just draw down ideas creatively was the best form of idea generation for me and would continue to use this form of ideas generation on the future, but I would just do small ideas without drawing around a credit card because I though it was time consuming
I feel at the end of all this, I can generate ideas in the form of mind maps, team generation and design process easily.
