What is Ideation?
Ideation is a part of design thinking process where we brainstorm and come up with ideas and solutions to users problems. Ideation helps you take your research from synthesis to actions. It precedes doing any design work that means ideation is not about starting the actual designs of features and screens.
Ideation is a five step process:
- Empathizing with our users.
- Defining our user’s goals, needs and pain points.
- Ideating by creating ideas for innovative solutions.
- Prototyping those potential solutions.
- Testing those prototypes.
Conceptual Design: How to Wrap Your Mind Around Ideation
Conceptual Design is a process of roughly researching, thinking, and prototyping solutions for any feature or product. It is own of the best ways to start out any product designing and perform ideation. In this article we are going to discuss Conceptual design, what is Ideation? how can we create Conceptual designs for a better ideation process? and also some best practices to keep in mind while creating Conceptual Designs.