INTRODUCTION

Hi, during my internship I was given a task to design an app for the company named  “​Creativescapes,​” which in Sanskrit means unrestricted thinking knowing no boundaries, takes  its inspiration for boundary-less thinking from the free spirited birds. It is a flagship  workshop on Design Thinking that is conducted by Hari Sharma, Chairman & Managing  Director, Intelligent Designs Inc.

ABOUT ​Creativescapes,​ APP

‘​Creativescapes,​’ is one-of-a-kind platform that nurtures not only the Design minds, but also  reaches out to the common audiences to spread the uniqueness of application of  Design Thinking in all perspectives of everyday life.

The program covers the power of boundary-less thinking and how Design Thinking  helps in moving from mystery of business to heuristics and then to algorithm. It also  emphasizes the role of emotional elements in moving Design Thinking from ‘Just ideas’  to the ‘Implementation’ of ideas.

The aim of the app is to reach people with the ideology of ‘​Creativescapes,​’, thereby inspiring  them and unleashing their true potential. Whether it’s a business scenario or day-to-day  life, the shift in the thinking process of the respective stakeholders and most importantly  how they use technology to connect the job with its operation, can be referred to as  design thinking.

CHALLENGES

During the initial stages of the designing I faced several issues regarding practicality,  scalability, audience of the app and the various important features to be included in the  same.

SELECTION

I choose Mind mapping as it is used to represent how ideas or other items are  linked to a central idea and to each other. Mind maps are used to generate,  visualize, structure and classify ideas to look for patterns and insights that provide  key design criteria. We do this by displaying the data and asking people to cluster  them in ways that allow themes and patterns to emerge. Mind mapping must be a  team sport.

MINDMAP FOR APP

APPLICATION

S1 (logo)

This screen is the activity which contains the name of the app along with its logo.

S2 (landing page)

It contains a welcome message and has two buttons, one for sign up and other for login.

S3 (login)

It’s the basic login page.

S4 (sign up)

It’s the basic sign up page.

S5 (homepage)

It consists of a menu, brief summary, upcoming event details, recent events, previous events.  The menu consists of

a. videos/lectures  b. gallery

c. notifications  d. events  e. social media  f. about us

S6 (videos)

It consists of a search option, wherein user can search a particular video. The page will contain  the latest video on the top and others by date.

S7 (gallery)

It consists of photo of each event along with brief description. If a user clicks on a photo it  shows all the photos of that event.

S8 (about us)

It contains the ideology, contributors and the ‘contact us’ details.

S9 (social media)

User can check out various handles and like, share and follow.

S10 (clicked on video)

It has the video along with options of like, dislike, views, comments .User can also add  comments.

APPROACH AND CONCLUSION

Mind mapping is one of the efficient method to organize ideas and analyze complex situations  through breaking things down into smaller parts. It can be used alone or with in collaboration  with other design thinking methods. Mind mapping can be applied in different sectors including  business and education to achieve goals related to better thinking and collaboration between  employees or students. While the traditional white board and marker is one of the efficient  methods to brainstorm, mind mapping software and tools provide more functions and  capabilities such as saving produced mind maps in different format and integrating them with  other applications such as MS Office and MS Project.

