![]() You might need to see the idea from a different perspective or you might need to understand something else before you can understand how your idea can work. Some ideas won’t be ready for you or more you won’t be ready for them just yet. Some of your ideas will need to be shaped and combined with other ideas that may or may not have recorded yet. You’ll wonder why you recorded the idea in the first place. In fact most of the things you record will be garbage. What you record won’t always be a great idea. When you need an idea look through your collection and pick something. From time to time review your collection and add more notes and thoughts to your original idea. Collect everything into something like a swipe file. You can record in different places on different devices, but make sure you then collect everything into one central location. What’s important is you can’t trust yourself to remember so record it somewhere. Record it on your phone, on a scrap of paper, or on a napkin. It if makes even a momentary impact, record it somewhere. I’ve had ideas walking through a mall and noticing a logo or the internal layout of a store. You can get ideas by observing what’s around you. When reading, ideas have come from both fiction and non-fiction. I’ve gotten ideas from music, television, movies, and games like chess. I find reading leads me to the most ideas, but any medium will work. Just because you’re a designer, it doesn’t mean all your sources should be design related. Have them come from different disciplines. You want to feed your collection mechanism with input from as many sources as realistically possible. You need a way to record ideas wherever you are and you need a place to store them. If you want to have ideas at the ready when you want them, you need some kind of collection mechanism. They generally don’t come full-blown before you begin. I think people sometimes wait for the idea, for the inspiration before doing something creative, but inspiration and ideas comes during the process. To me it’s less about finding and idea and more about recognizing what around you makes for a good idea. That’s how I’ve always thought about ideas. In the midst of a rather humorous response to a question about where he gets ideas, Neil Gaiman mentioned that writers are good at recognizing ideas and more specifically recognizing good ideas. I was pointed to the video via BrainPickings. The inspiration for this specific post and podcast comes from something Neil Gaiman said in a video that I think was part of a Q&A session. ![]() If you don’t see the audio above, Click here to listen. Note: This post includes an audio version. ![]()
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