How to Get Over a Designer’s Block and Brainstorm Creative Ideas?

Creative block is not something uncommon. It affects even the best of the creative persons like writers, music composers and designers at some point of their life. Even Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his thirties had been affected by writer’s block. Do fret if you are going through a designer’s block. Inspire yourself and endeavour to wake up your creative spirit.

If you have done a graphic design diploma or any other corresponding course, you must have been taught how to explore creativity and come up with innovative designs. Try to recapitulate the instructions provided during the course and see if it helps you to come out of your creative block in any way. You may also try out the tips provided in this blog get over your problem and brainstorm new ideas.

Getting Over a Designer’s Block is Easy Now

An array of tips have been put together below to enable you brainstorm more effectively:

l  Try to Pick Up Ideas from the World Around You:

Often the graphic designers get stuck in the internet realm while they look for ideas. As a designer, you should also look around the real world to find inspiration that you could use in your design. The mind needs various stimulation. You should not hover around the same websites and expect to find innovative concepts. You can go to an art gallery or a sculpture centre or take a walk through the nature and talk to your creative colleagues to see if you can gather inspiration and ideas.

l  Take a Break:

Taking a break is important. During the break, you will be able to lend some rest to your mind and let the stress go out. A stress less mind is able to think clearly and create ideas. Thus, consider counterbalancing stress with a short break from work.

l  Visiting a Design Forum May Help:

You may benefit by interacting with other designers in a design forum. By visiting the forum, you will be able to share your issues and may get someone who has gone through the same creative block phase and overcame it. The first-hand story from such an artist may show you a path to get out of your problem.

l  Mind Map Can Be a Saviour:

Try to create a mind map and jot down your ideas in a paper. This will help you to develop the ‘snowball effect’ where a single idea will give birth to another and so forth, thus giving rise to a constant stream of innovative concepts.

Remember that only your knowledge acquired through graphic design diploma will not help you to come up with new designs. It is creativity and its proper application which will help you produce mind-boggling graphic design concepts.

Alat Kunci Dalam Menguasai Motion Desain Grafik atau Animator

Untuk profesional yang ingin mencapai keberhasilan dalam bidang animasi, desain grafik, desain visual, desain UI atau desain motion di singapura adalah sangat penting untuk menemukan cara dengan mendalami dasar-dasar dan mulai mempraktekan apa yang telah dipelajari di sekolah desain. Berbeda dengan keyakinan lama, memperdalam ketrampilan dalam setiap pekerjaan desain tidak memerlukan investasi di perangkat lunak yang mahal.

Investasi di Kertas Sketsa

Untuk permulaan, ketrampilan utama setiap desain digital yang harus diingat adalah belajar membuat sketsa dengan baik. Hal ini sangat penting untuk selalu menyediakan kertas sketsa yang dapat digunakan setiap saat. Dengan cara ini dapat membantu ahli animasi atau desain motion di Singapura untuk membuat catatan dari semua ide yang mengispirasi di setiap saat.

Kemampuan dalam Power Point  atau KeyNote

Untuk memulai kemahiran dalam menyusun frame kawat dengan cepat  dapat di lakukan dengan mudah dalam program mock up atau prototipe di lokasi situs. Selain itu, jika anda ingin mengetahui fungsi desain anda atau menjelajahi tugas yang ada dapat dengan mudah menghubungkan peluncuran  bersama sama.

Ketrampilan Penyulingan Cloud-Based pada Aplikasi Komputer

Peralatan yang anda butuhkan untuk bekerja dapat dengan mudah ditemukan dengan  harga terjangkau

• Kawat Framing dan Prototyping Aplikasi

membawa sketsa kertas anda ke tingkat berikutnya dibutuhkan untuk menguasai beberapa aplikasi khusus seperti Moqups, OmniGraffle, UXPin, Invision dan / atau Axure.

• Alat Pengujian A/B

Kebanyakan alat pengujian A/B didapatkan dengan berlangganan bulanan. Alat ini sangat berguna jika anda ingin menguji satu atau dua elemen desain dan menilai mana yang mendapat perhatian yang lebih besar.

• Alat Tanggapan Pengguna / Feedback

Alat tanggapan pengguna /feedback adalah sumber informasi tambahan dari pengguna yang pada dasarnya adalah target permisa anda. Alat alat seperti  Mechanical Turk dan Survey Monkey adalah sangat cocok untuk tujuan ini. Anda juga dapat mempertimbangkan untuk berinvestasi dalam UX alat tanggapan pengguna yang khusus seperti  UserTesting dan Usabilla.

• Alat Web Analitic

Jika sebagian animasi atau desain motion bertujuan sebagai bagian dari desain situs, anda juga harus membiasakan diri dengan alat alat seperti platform Google Analitic. Karena Ini dapat membantu anda dalam memahami perilaku pengguna dari sudut bisnis,  membantu klien dalam mengoptimalkan tingkat perubahan. KISSmetrics juga merupakan alat yang terkenal dalam  tujuan ini. Memberikan penambahkan penjelasan  mengenai pengguna dan faktor faktor yang membuat mereka berubah.

Haruskah Saya belajar Perkodean?

Apakah desainer harus belajar tentang perkodean adalah perdebatan sejak dahulu. Meskipun tidak mutlak di perlukan untuk desain grafis motion untuk belajar perkodean, tetapi setelah anda mempelajarinya dapat memberikan dasar yang sangat penting. Meskipun mungkin tidak selalu terlibat dalam perkodean setiap saat, terdapat berbagai manfaat dalam mempelajari perkodean dari bagian lain di tim anda.

Terutama jika anda bekerja di perusahaan yang lebih kecil, ketrampilan perkodean anda akan dapat berguna jika menguji kelayakan prototipe anda. Dalam perusahaan besar, ketrampilan perkodean dapat membantu anda bekerja sama dengan pengembang dalam menciptakan desain kualitas yang lebih baik.

Ringkasan

Artikel ini membahas beberapa alat kunci yang harus desainer kuasai untuk menjadi Profesional yang sukses.

A Look at Design & Visual Communications

The 10 Aspects of Good Design: Part 1 of 2

Function, aesthetics, space and form. These are all fundamental ideas that designers have to wrestle with in their daily lives. As a matter of fact, there are 10 aspects of good design that every designer should be looking out for. Today we’ll be discussing five of these aspects. 

1) Aesthetics

We begin our list with the most obvious aspect. Aesthetics might very well be the most surface-level aspect that designers grapple with but while most may relate the term aesthetics to something that is superficial and subjective (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), it remains an integral part of design. An engineer could perhaps create a well-functioning product, but a good designer would take that design and add to its appeal through aesthetics, making its form a lot more appealing to the senses.

2)  Truthful

A good design is truthful and manages to convey to the consumer its intended use and information. A good design does not overpromise. For example, a student from a good Motion Graphic Design Diploma can tell you that a designer’s main job is to be able to communicate a message effectively and concisely through the use of animation and graphics. Of course, this falls mainly for designers who deal in visual communications, but the clarity of a product’s design identity has to stay true to its function in all aspects of design.

3)  Evergreen

It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable designs that are seasonal, a good design lasts many years—even in today’s throwaway society.

4) Innovative

The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with the rapid advancement of technology, and can never be an ends to itself.

5) Understandable

It clarifies the product’s structure, and allows the product to clearly express its function by making use of the user’s intuition. It is at best, self-explanatory. Students partaking in motion graphic design diplomas, visual effects courses and other visual communication disciplines will be familiar with the concept of clarity through design.

So in summary, a good piece of design, has to be aesthetically pleasing, truthful, understandable, evergreen and innovative… amongst other things. We’ll be discussing the next 5 aspects of design in the 2^nd part of the post so don’t miss it!

In the meantime, if you are interested in picking up a design course, why not check out MAGES? Aside from the Motion Graphic Design Diploma, MAGES also offers visual effects courses as a specialization within the Advanced Diploma in Animation.

If you have any questions or want us to cover anything, please do let us know. Until next time!