CREATIVE THINKING

To understand the significance of any problem is half the battle won. Creativity is a process that can be systematically applied to this significance. New dimensions of understanding the problem would thus arise out of this process. The outcomes  can then be subjected to creating new associations, the join-the-dots approach, to give numerous possibilities of a way to address solving the problem. 

The process of thinking creatively if abstracted to essentials, could be imagined in these three approaches,

1. Breaking old patterns

2. Making new connections

3. Finding Fresh perspectives

Breaking old patterns

A. Understand & challenge assumptions

B. Rephrase the problem

C. Reverse or Backward thinking

D. Mixing up

Making new connections

A. Identify new associations of your problem with a random key word

B. Identify a picture and find associations with your problem (A picture speaks a Thousand words)

C. Identify an object and find associations with your problem

Finding Fresh Perspectives

A. If I were.....an outsider's perspective (age, culture, gender, life experiences)

This approach for creative thinking engages with aspects of empathy towards the user, various circumstantial values, diversity of possibilities.