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Top 5 Ways to Grow Design Creativity In the Next Year
by Maria Lorena Lehman
Design Creativity
As an environmental designer, it is ever important to lift your work to the next level. This means that you never settle into a design process plateau where creative growth remains stagnant. And as you work to inject multi-sensory design into your architectural creations, you keep your design vision, decision-making, and communication skills at their peak levels. This is why I created the following top 5 list of best ways to grow your design creativity in the year ahead…
Practice Creative Thinking Daily: Journal about your design projects by not only sketching, but also by writing about how to make them better. Great ideas are born while writing.
Schedule Brainstorming Sessions: Plan time within your design process to think of many possible solutions to a design challenge. Then, you can choose the best solution, or combine great ideas from various solutions into a super-solution.
Switch Design Tools: Use a different design tool to help you think differently about a design challenge and its solution. For example, if you use computers to create 3D still visualizations, then try creating a 3D animation of your design – or use a different kind of modeling software to generate the geometric forms.
Conduct a Portfolio Review: Analyze your previous projects within your portfolio with a strategic eye. Ask yourself: How can I make my next project even better? What has been missing from my previous designs that if I included in my next design, would bring my work to a heightened, greater, level?
Determine Your WHY: Spend some time figuring out why you do the work you do. By getting a deeper understanding into your purpose, you will unlock a more creative purpose for your design work that will resonate with clients and future building occupants.
Really, creativity is a practice that you must engage in to strengthen your design skills. While working on design projects, you pull from your creative skillset – but you also must grow creativity as you progress and advance as a designer over the longer term. Creativity is an important part of multi-sensory design, and is one that must be developed if one is to formulate extraordinary design concepts.
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