Come up with design ideas alone

by Anthony Hobday

Sometimes you need to design alone

Keep these things in mind

• Everything is a remix
• Functional fixedness is a problem
• Impossible is not a problem
• Don’t judge your ideas
• Don’t wait for inspiration. Go through the motions
• You need as many perspectives as possible
• The more ideas, the better

Simple methods to come up with more ideas

• Abstract the problem
• Analogy
• Challenge assumptions
• Come back later
• Competitor analysis
• Crazy 8s
• How would they do it?
• Mind mapping
• Mission impossible
• Pattern knowledge
• Provocation
• Random word
• Reverse thinking
• Sketching
• Storyboarding

The sources I used to write this book