// — For Robot –
if see(something) {
((thought + what if) ++1)
}
then say( “ahhhh”)
// — For Human –
1.0 – Dedicate time to day dream
It’s useful to have time in your schedule carved out for some serious day dreaming. The best times, I find, are when you are already doing some menial task that leaves your mind open for you thoughts to wander. A long commute home or laundry day is ideal. Do it every day. Don’t let people take away that time from you. Tell them you’ve got some serious dream work to do. If they don’t leave you alone we’ll send the robots after them.
1.1 – Day dream with others
Day dreaming with others allows you to break out of the world of your own experiences. You can combine the powers of multiple experiences and ideas. Be fearless in your sharing and build on top of each others dreamings. Where to do this can be tricky. Ideally you can carpool, save the environment and day dream at the same time. But if not, you might have to schedule a place where you can dream together. Coffee shops a nice. Urban trecking is even better. Don’t forget to bring your sketchbooks and cameras.
1.2 – Doodle when you dream
Even if it’s itchy chicken scratch doodle your dreams. You can then look at your scratches years from now and marvel at how much finer your scratching has become. Don’t worry about what other might think or how you need save your work for the future generations that will find your doodles and publish them into books. You’re probably not that important anyways.
1.3 – Dream big
If you’re not going to build castles in the sky don’t bother. There’s not fun in building a hut. There might be in building a sustainable multi income sea side community. Basically if you’re day dreaming about stuff you’d be thinking about at work you either have a fascinating job or you are not dreaming big enough.
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In indigenous aboriginal population of Australia dreaming has an important and revered role. There the act of ‘Dreaming’ represents the collective memory and visual representations of the laws for society, tribal law and the patterns of life for the aboriginal people. it’s a way to represent and comment on the history of a particular society. Dreaming is part of who we are as complex beings and the ability express our dreams is an important part that connects us to society.
Unpreciousness
Sketches are not precious and can destroyed to make room for more ideas. Unpreciousness is the quality that an experience sketch needs to have in order for a designer to be able to throw it away.
Unpreciousness may seem counterproductive but actually it’s an essential aspect of design thinking in that it allows for rapid iteration with the lowest cost possible. The level of fidelity of the sketch should only be as much as is necessary to make a decision for all the stakeholders involved. Sometimes this means training the stakeholders to make decisions at a lower fidelity than they might have been accustomed to in the past.
The goal is to create a design process where you have the willingness to scrap what you’ve done and start over.