1. 100 Days of UX
  2. Brainstorming Graphic Organizers

Brainstorming Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers, or visual representations of knowledge, are frameworks that facilitate teams as they challenge assumptions, experiment with new relationships between accepted components of a problem space, and as they consider unconventional alternatives within a domain.

Brainstorming Graphic Organizers is Day 8 of 100 Days of UX, an exploratory effort to survey the 100 methods of design outlined in Martin and Hannington's Universal Methods of Design. For 100 consecutive days, I learn one new method a day and write about it.

Some examples of these graphic organizers are Brainstorming Webs, Tree Diagrams, and Flow Diagrams.

Brainstorming Webs are used when visualizations of the relationships between a central concept and related ideas, supporting facts, or its characteristics would be useful. They can be created center-outward, when the central concept is identified first, or outside-in when the components are identified prior to their unifying theme.


Brainstorming Web

Tree diagrams are used when any of a hierarchy, a classification system, or relationships between ordinate and subordinate ideas needs communicating.


Tree Diagrams

Flow Diagrams, or flowcharts, are used to represent sequences - of actions, processes, etc - and show cause and effect relationships.


Flowcharts
References
  1. Martin, B., & Hanington, B. (2012). Universal Methods of Design: 100 ways to research complex problems, develop innovative ideas & Design effective solutions. Rockport


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