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Explore three innovative ways to enhance your design thinking—design by denial, embracing contradictions, and mind-mapping. Discover how traditional items (like a pencil or coffee mug) can inspire creative solutions by challenging their conventional uses. Delve into the playful contrasts of ideas represented by "Red Water" and "Blue Water" associated with the circus, while encouraging the need to break free from comfort zones. Join us in redefining design by transforming problems into opportunities for creativity and innovation.
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3 Ways to help Innovate • Design by Denial • Red water Blue Water • Contradictions
Design By Denial Does it have to......? • Pencil • Attributes of a Pencil • Round • Graphite • Yellow • Writes on Paper • Strong • Smooth • Pointed • Eraser • Round metal ring • What is the essential goal of a Pencil? • It has to write
Red Water Blue Water Let’s focus on a circus! • Red Water • Things that not safe and are different • Stage • No food • No Stinky elephants • Adults no smelly kids • I like Acrobats • No Lions they are mean • I do not want to travel • I want to have my own Identity • All year Long • Blue Water • Things that are safely associated with a circus • Tent • Cotton candy • Elephants • Kids • Acrobats • Lions • Traveling • Barnum and baileys • One time a year I dont want........ cirque du soleil
Blue Water Red Water • We need to get out of our comfort zone
Contradictions • Lets look at contradictions as problems to solve. • Coffee Mug • Put a hot liquid in • Does not allow a hot liquid out • Does this always work? • How can we improve upon this idea?
Mind-Mapping Don’t Use a Mug Spill Proof Coffee Mug Improve the Lid Don’t Spill it! Anti Gravity Weight Balance