Example – Reflection – Mind Mapping Tool

On many occasions we are invaded by our thoughts and ideas, either as a result of our present  activities, as projects, objectives or goals we want to achieve. However, understanding and  projecting this information from our mind, for ourselves or for others, becomes in many cases, a  challenge, where we can fail in the attempt, if what we intend to communicate or capture a creative  idea.

The need to organize our ideas and the context of it is a challenge that all human beings have. In  particular, in the learning process, using a tool such as mind mapping, allows students or any other  group to be directed, to more easily appropriate the data and concepts that they want to offer. At  present, we know that the amount of information is not a problem, however, the challenge is how  we can sort and present, the entire amount of information, that many times we count when  performing an activity. And this situation is not exclusive to designers, as we mentioned, in our daily  life, we constantly have the challenge of drawing or designing schemes that allow us to understand  and learn in a better way.

Application

At the beginning of the "what if" process we are carrying out different exploration activities, where  the generation of ideas and verification of data and information is constant and we are looking for  progress in a pivoting that allows us to refine our innovation process. This tool leads us to go building  and defining the design criteria, in which we intend to move forward in this phase. The possibilities  of summarizing and communicating are virtues of this tool, when transmitting knowledge in focus  groups and work teams, given the intuitive and creative features it offers.

Currently we recognize that people learn more efficiently from images, videos, that is, all those tools  that encourage our capacity for visual learning. There is a fundamental characteristic in "Mind  Mapping" and it is the functionality of connecting ideas, this for the case of the design of business  models or processes, it is a function of great value, every time, that allows to clearly draw each one  of the components and how they integrate and relate

Today we find several apps and web solutions, which can support us to develop our mental maps or  diagrams, in short, I believe that this tool should become a common accessory in our design thinking  for all our activities.

Insight & Approach

Making diagrams and mental maps, has allowed me to identify the value of transforming creative  ideas into visual forms that achieve understanding and communication. By obtaining an idea  represented in a visual language, it encourages the progress of innovation and brings us closer to  obtaining the design criteria we intend for a future initial prototype phase. It focuses the activities  of brainstorming on the objectives that we want to draw, and allows to involve co-creation, by  having a visual image of what each team member contributed and especially the achievement of  the problem that we intend to solve with our innovation This tool really excites me and I want to  learn to work.

Aaron Cruz.

Bogotá - Colombia

