EXAMPLE REFLECTION – MIND MAPPING

CHALLENGE & SELECTION:

Mind mapping is the tool that I usually use. I am student of second year user experience design.  Apart from that I am a professional kathak dance learner. I am being learning this classical  dance form since 10 yrs. Many such situations occurred till now where I was not able to do all  things simultaneously. This clashes included exams and many more things. Once a situation  occurred that I had my dance exam and college semester exams were in same month. And now  this situation left me in dilemma. Mind mapping is a graphical representation that helps to  structure information and generate new ideas. The challenge was to study for both the exams  and get good grades in both of them.  And that every time I think mind mapping tool can help me manage and innovate. This tool  would help me use the time efficiently and maintain a good score.

APPLICATION:

So it would be the application of my tool to complete the challenge successfully. It was pretty  much different to do dance practice and study for exams managing college attendance. I  started mind mapping the ways that what are the possibilities of doing this both tasks in more  efficient way. Basically I made a list of small tasks related to both the challenges. Then I allotted  a specific time to them and created a mind map of this ideas. I started putting new innovations  to the process. Like if I would complete one topic from chart I used to add another and keep  myself busy. I started balancing both creative side as well as study side of it. With the use of  mind map I used to know the topics which I covered and which are left to do. I organized a  special time to do editing of my exam portfolios. This was time when I usually got bored of  studies so it helped me in organizing the time efficiently with relaxation to mind. Finally when  all topics in mind map were covered I tried to include new topics to it by analysing the weak  points in me and thus leading to innovation in my challenge.

INSIGHT:

So using this tool was great. It was a new way to make use to this tool in challenges like this and  make them result in a very good manner. At times this made me think that I am in some game  and I would get a level up if I would complete a task. Mind mapping made me learn new  perception of tasks and get succeed in them as well. I think in this design tool the process and  its appropriate execution is more important. And it really worked well. I was able to make it  possible and keep my score constant and a grade up too. So I started with this process for  almost every single and important task of my life. This would make me think more differently  and with very patient impact.

APPROACH:

I can probably try using different tools in different situations in order to explore its results. But  it’s for sure that this tools are going to be helpful in such challenges and get good output.

