Creative Thinking Process

Creative thinking is driven by Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking in every decision that one makes. Creativity in Design involves these two components.

“Your creative thinking ability is built around three human thought processing functions:

1. Strategy: How you organize and plan your thought processes. Evaluation of thoughts and ideas and future plans based on any given situation or problem.
   
   
2. Knowledge base: Your acquired information on a group of subjects and problem domains. You draw on this information in order to be able to solve problems or add new thinking to situations.
   
   
3. Motivation and your attitude: Such factors are often driven by your personality, energy levels, perseverance and your self-confidence which in turn are acquired from a lifetime of experiences and interactions. Motivation and attitude affects the decisions and direction that you take in order to get to a desired result.”

(Ref.http://www.innovation-creativity.com/creative_thinking.html ; Nov. 23, 2012)

Design Process requires organized thought process to evaluate various conditions. Based on the evaluation specific future planning is to be processed so that the necessary situation or problem may be solved. The probable solution can be dealt with based on previous knowledge and experiences. Therefore, for any design solution previous knowledge would naturally become the foundation for the future activities. Past knowledge leads to self-confidence, persuasion, motivation to achieve the desired goal. Therefore, creative thinking will go through a complex process of disciplined imaginative direction in order to achieve the goal.