Saturday, March 21, 2009

Developing Ideas.

This article about developing ideas was relatively straightforward, although it did provide some very insightful ways to look at idea development.

The author's description of idea sessions was very thorough and helpful. Brainstorming can be disastrous, however, I thought that the author provided some helpful solutions for making an "Idea Session" more productive.

Some of the jobs that he described seem very helpful, and they are not jobs that I would normally think of having people do during an ideas session such as this. For example, a facilitator, essentially, to help pull ideas from the group members. This seems like a good idea, particularly if group members are hesitant to express the ideas that they may have.

I could also appreciate his list of rules. "All ideas are equal," seems to be a particularly important rule to have.

1 comment:

  1. Think about that for Module 4 as well that you are creating two potentially good designs for a site. You will see them in action, not in full, but partially, just to get an idea how they may function and then use that to assist you with making those choices for the final. What do you now want to see implemented? What will really showcase the content best? What will really help the users with their needs?

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