The Creative Life - Managing your ideas. Weathering cycles of inspiration.

How to generate ideas. How to whittle all those ideas down. A tour of my progression from creative kid to creative professional, with a sprinkling of my work as a Cartoonist and a cartooning User Experience Designer.

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1. Hi, I’m Sally.
2. Cartoonist + User Experience Designer
3. Cartoonist
12. User Experience Designer
13. User Experience Designer ...a what?
14. “the application of user-centered design practices to generate cohesive, predictive and desirable designs based on holistic consideration of users’ experience. In most cases, User Experience Design fully encompasses traditional Human-Computer Interaction design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users.” Wikipedia:
29. Cartoonist + User Experience Designer
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37. Creative Work
38. 1 Ideas 2 Time 3 Focus 4 Skill
40. Ideas ✔ ✗ Time Focus Skill ✗ ✔
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45. Guess how long it took until I liked my own drawings?
46. 30 Years!!!
48. Ideas ✔ ✔ Time Focus Skill ✔ ✗
49. Ideas
50. Inspiration is cyclical
51. I don’t have any ideas
52. I have too many ideas!
53. I don’t have any ideas I have too many ideas!
54. I don’t have any ideas Diverge! Create choices
55. Ideas are cheap!
63. I have too many ideas! Converge! Make choices
64. Capture them!
70. Themes will emerge over time.
71. 1 Keep drawing 2 Inspiration is cyclical 3 Diverge vs Converge 4 Keep a sketchbook 5 Capture your ideas 6 Organize sketchbooks 7 Themes will emerge