Creative Problem Solving

From complex challenge to innovative solution

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📃 3 Articles

The Simple Process I Use For Turning Notes Into Knowledge (& Knowledge Into Content)

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Using a writing inbox as a starting point for your writing is much more useful than starting from a blank screen each time you sit down to write.

2. Sparknotes are those bolts of lightning that make you think “That’s interesting but I don’t really know why yet”. Collect those sparknotes (lit notes).

3. Turn sparknotes into atomic notes and connect atomic notes to cluster notes to build a web of knowledge that’s all interconnected.

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Creative Problem Solving: from complex challenge to innovative solution

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Creative problem solving was a technique first used by Alex Osborn in the 1940s. Osborn also coined the term brainstorming.

2. The creative problem solving process (CPS) has four phases: reframe problems into questions, balance divergent and convergent thinking, defer judgment, and say “yes, and” rather than “no, but”.

3. By following this process, you can generate unique ideas when there appears to be no obvious solution to your problem.

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The business power of design: understanding Airbnb’s redesign

The article in 3 ideas:

1. An organizing principle is a central reference point that allows all other objects to be located. This helps people to design complex apps to make them simple to understand and navigate.

2. Deciding on an app’s organizing principle takes understanding the customer and the problem they’re trying to solve.

3. Traditional traveling starts by deciding dates and a location to go. Airbnb is hoping to change this model to start with the experience first, then the location. This could massively impact how people travel from now on.

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

DALL-E 2 ➜

• You really should check this out! DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

Designing Better Data Tables ➜

• The ingredients of a successful data table UI.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Adham Dannaway @AdhamDannaway

⚡️ UI design tip - Decrease usability risks Many of my design decisions are based on risk. The risk that someone could have difficulty using an interface. In this example, we’ll fix elements that pose a potential risk to usability using practical UI design principles. 1/4 🧵

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