"One clear, penetrating question might make all the difference"
— S. Harrison in Ideaspotting, How to find your next great idea
"The way you use your environment plays an important role in how much creative “juice” it produces"
— J. Linkner in Disciplined Dreaming, a proven system to drive breakthrough creativity
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"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"
— W. Dyer quoted by A. Pek and J. McGlade in “Stimulated!: Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work”
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
— Picasso
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What If? is a popular tool for generating ideas, creating designs, solving problems.
What if a personal computer was fun and easy to use? asked Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and the result was Macintosh.
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— Sam Harrison in “Zing!: Five Steps and 101 Tips for Creativity on Command”
(Source: inextremis.be)
"How to force a Connection? 01 Choose a connection… / 02 Make two lists… / 03 Combine styles, messages, or functions… / 04 Choose one or more viable ideas…"
— Ellen Lupton in “Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming"
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"A critical step in trying to find solutions is to clearly define the challenge. The way a challenge is framed will impact the way it is solved."
— Stephen M. Shapiro in “Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition”
(Source: inextremis.be)
"A fun way to quickly produce visual concepts is to apply action verbs to a basic idea."
— Ellen Lupton in “Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming”
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"Structure enables us to capture our ideas and arrange them in a way that helps us (and others) relate them."
— Scott Belsky, speaker, writer and organizer of the creative world, in the bestseller “Making Ideas Happen”
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"Imagine a cooking competition with several chefs at a long table… Who wins that competitions?
At a lower level the chef with highest quality wins.
But at the higher level all chefs have excellent quality. So who wins?
The chef who can turn the same ingredients into superior quality."
— The guru of clear thinking, E. De Bono, in “Creativity Workout”
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"Iterative design is a design methodology based on a cyclical process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a work in progress."
— Satu Miettinen (service and social designer) in “This is Service Design Thinking”
(Source: inextremis.be)
