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RAW. Design Thinking: Synthesis 1 | Hexagonal Thinking. If your students have been deep immersing themselves in conflicting, complex ideas for some time, there will come a point when it's essential to make sense of things. One effective tool for beginning to synthesise ideas is Hexagonal Thinking. The Why In Design Thinking, and in other deep stretches of thinking, we can all get muddled by the complexity of the ideas before us. It is a difficult mental task to work out what connects to what, which ideas are more outliers on their own, and which concepts tie to the core of the challenge we're exploring. Linear thinking, where 'a' causes 'b' to happen is great for textbook writers, but isn't the way the world works. The Experiment Hexagonal Thinking is where either student or teacher writes key concepts on hexagonal cards, at the end of a period of learning, where the content behind each 'headline' is relatively clear to a team of learners.

In schools, we've seen it put to use by practitioners such as Chris Harte and David Didau. ReFrame – helps you to think differently. Social entrepreneurs go Hollywood: The promise of change in 25 words or less. (It’s pretty hard to change the world, if no one wants to follow your thinking…) Curtis Faith has been asking us all about stories. What is your story? Who is the hero? How will it end? Good questions, because stories provide a powerful framework for spreading ideas.

Randy Olson, the scientist-turned-filmmaker, regularly lambastes the academic/science community for getting so caught up in the pointy-headed details that they completely forget how real communication happens. Also take a look at the work by Alex (Sandy) Petland, the author of Honest Signals. Yet most scientists (and other big idea people) don’t get it.

The thing is, if you want to move your idea from the edge into the mainstream, from the future to the present, you have to package it. This is not the same thing as dumbing it down. That’s why, especially for the “issue entrepreneurs”, stories are the key to changing the world… And no one is better at telling stories (that move a big audiences) than Hollywood. Hollywood Story: Home | Floodlight. The de Bono Group - Six Thinking Hats. Collective Action Toolkit. Visual Resources. 10 Best Alternatives To Adobe Illustrator. It now costs $19.99 a month to get access to Adobe Illustrator CC. That’s $240 per year! Most graphic designers can’t afford a price like this. Things used to be simpler when Adobe released its software under fixed prices. Now, you have to pay a monthly fee just to use the software.

Even if you end up using the software only a few days a month, you still have to pay the subscription price year after year until you keep working as a designer. This is why most freelance designers and individuals are turning away from Adobe Creative Cloud and seek affordable alternatives. Luckily, there are plenty of great software you can choose from. If someone says “nothing beats Adobe Illustrator” then you can make them think again because we’ve lined up 10 of the best vector graphic designing apps and tools you can use instead of Adobe Illustrator. Sketch Price: $99Platform: Mac User Experience and User Interface designers are going crazy over this new app.

Best Features Of Sketch CorelDraw Inkscape Gravit. The Miso Project. Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad. Downloads. Classroom Visuals.