How mind mapping will help you get idea’s

As a designer I made my share of mindmaps throughout the years. In both studies they let me mindmap for almost every project, so yes I was getting tired of it. Because of that I almost never used it in my daily job. This changed the last year however.

Last year I started a new study and came in contact with mindmapping again. Of course my first reaction was: “Screw this, I’m not going through all this again” and: “I’m don’t use this technique at all when working”. But this changed when making the first few mindmaps again.

I found out, that a mindmap gets me to an idea faster then a normal brainstorming process. In a normal brainstorm session I always have the problem that I run out of idea’s very quicykl. With a mindmap that doesn’t happen. This is because you are writing it down in a tree like manor. When you run out of keywords you just start over with another section of your mindmap. Even words that aren’t related with the eventual project are allowed to be written down, everything is allowed.

When done you’ll see the bigger picture and all relation within your projects subject. This gives ton’s of inspiration for new idea’s. No stressing involved!

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