On Creativity and Play

I love this talk by IDEO CEO Tim Brown. It's from TED talks.

It explores the connection beTween being playfull and the ability to be creative.

Key points in the talk:

- Go for quantity: You need to be able to suspend judgement when you generate ideas. This is difficult for adults. We tend to edit a lot of ideas away, because we worry about the opinions of our peers.

- Think with your Hands: Building prototypes is the best way to get a good discussion about ideas. How will this work? Make a crude prototype, and pretty soon you'll be able to get a sense of it.

- Roleplay: Act how users will use your product. This works great. Good design is based around user needs, immersing yourself in these needs will make you able to build a better product.

- Jens Poder

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november 14, 2008 | Filed Under Creativity 

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4 Responses to “On Creativity and Play”

  1. chrishoneybee on november 24th, 2008 7:04 pm

    Thank you twice! :)
    - For sharing this amazing talk on creativity
    - And for the reference to the TED talks website

    That was definitely right decision to subscribe to your RSS feed ;)

  2. Rasmus Lasthein on december 3rd, 2008 3:38 pm

    Hi Jens

    Once again greatly inspirational stuff, thanks :o)

    Rasmus

  3. focus supplement on december 9th, 2008 12:28 am

    I say create now and just splurge now and then go back and trim the fat. I think more times than not people look for the best idea. It's like sorting through a bin....it takes way too much more time to pick through it. Pour it all out and then spread it out. You will find the idea quicker.

  4. jens.poder on december 9th, 2008 9:31 am

    @focus

    That's a great way to put it :)

    - Jens Poder

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