Once you have defined your problem, it is time to brainstorm and think of some ideas. This step is the ideation step. In this step, your goal is to think of as many ideas as you possibly can think of. In the next you want to take all of the ideas you thought of and …
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Ransom Note
For our final project we were given the option to make one of two things, the first option was three black out poems, and the other was to create a ransom note. I decided to create the ransom note. Making the note wasn’t as simple as cutting out letters and putting them over a background. …
Storyboarding
For the last step in the design process we have the storyboarding step. Storyboarding is important because it is how you are able to show your ideas in words. The best ideas that have been polished and perfected through the previous steps now get to become a reality. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the definition …
Prototyping and Testing and Feedback
Out of all the steps of the creative thinking process, the two most closely related and the two that provide the most feedback are the prototyping and the testing steps. Although the other steps help you find out who you are working for, what you are making and who the audience is, prototyping and testing …
Defining the Problem
One of the most important steps in the problem-solving process is the ability to define the problem. It is impossible to be able to solve your problem if you have no idea what the problem actually is. What is the audience that you are solving for, what do you need to make to solve the …
Empathy
One of the most important things to remember about empathy is that anyone can be empathetic. Empathy is not limited to a few types of people. Empathy is something that can be used by everyone in any situation. For some people, it is hard to be empathetic towards other people if they do not even …
Whats in My Bag
Many people do not understand what design thinking really is. When I first heard the words design thinking, I thought of it to be just how a designer thinks about what project they are about to be working on. Although that is true, the true definition dives much deeper into what design thinking really is. …
ID Flat Poster
This Project was the first and only project that I made in InDesign, besides the portfolio. In this project, we had to take an image previously created and make our own by copying it. We had to place our own images and text for everything. Both the Celtic symbol at the top and the image …
AI Final
In this project, we were given the task of creating either our own set of trading cards, our own infographic, or our own board game. In class, we were shown multiple examples of all of the projects and I saw one that stood out to me. I saw one project of the different houses …
AI Personal Logo
In this project, our main goal was to create a logo that we could use in the future. Originally I decided to make one of a baseball, since that was the sport that I played my entire life, so I made one around that. I was able to incorporate the entire ball as a background, …
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