What's the difference between an arrogant and a confident designer?
Or Traditional and design thinking?
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Read More9 Thinking Behaviours or Critical Thinking Hats
Inspired by an infographic based on a paper by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Have you mastered the art of critical thinking?
"Critical Thinking is the art of analysing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it."
Critical Thinking is essential skill for every creative professional - or anyone who wants to solve problems, learn and live a better life.
Majority of thinking is bias in one way or another, often without us even realising it. Shoddy thinking produces shoddy results!
The 9 thinking behaviours in these nudenotes provide a framework, with example questions to ask yourself helping to improve your critical thinking.
Better critical thinking results in:
Highlight questions and problems, communicating them clearly to others.
Gather relevant information and interpreting them effectively.
Well-thought out solutions, tested against relevant criteria and objectives.
Openminded, understanding alternative systems. Recognise their own biases and overcome them.
Effectively communicate with others the results and solutions.
Good Critical Thinking skills can have a dramatic on the way your perceive problems in your life. I hope these notes help you to develop your own Critical Thinking skills.
Design Thinking
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What is Design Thinking, and how do I get started?
Here’s a six-ingredient recipe to ensure you can cook up some tasty Design Thinking for yourself.
Design Thinking takes a user-centric approach to problem solving.
It's less about traditional objects and visuals, focusing instead on the user’s experience.
This recipe of Design Thinking dates back to the 1960s — it became more mainstream after the IDEO design agency was formed.
Design Thinking is not just for designers!
Everything around us has been designed. So it must be good right?
Thinking like a designer can help you create, innovate, and even lead and manage people.
These six ingredients work together to empower you to create and develop hard hitting solutions that work for you, your team and your client.
I hope this recipe helps you as much as it has helped me!
How to Improve Your Critical Thinking
From focus2achieve.com
Are you struggling to make objective creative decisions?
Improving your critical thinking skills may be the solution.
“Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving”
-Richard Branson
Critical thinking is a decision-making process that subjects all of your possible options to scrutiny and skepticism.
This is done to ensure you can achieve the best possible solutions to your problems.
Key takeaway:
Use critical thinking to achieve design zen
As I grow as a creative professional, I feel the need to improve my critical thinking and sharpen my objectivity during my process, eliminating knee-jerk emotions and personal biases in favour of effective analysis so I can make good decisions.
This then leads to a smoother design process, and a happier one.
I hope the notes help you achieve the same design zen.