Think Creative

Design thinking is a term that was frequently used in contemporary design and engineering but as the global market is going through financial turmoil, many businesses adopt it in search of new and innovative solutions that will help them survive and stay competitive. Design thinking can be described as an action-based thinking that focuses on new solutions and not on existing problems.  It seeks to improve future results through the ability to grasp the context of the current situation, use of creative thinking to generate ideas and rational thinking to decide upon objectives, implementation and evaluation methods of the adopted solutions. It differs both from scientific and artistic creative thinking.  Scientific thinking starts with analysis of all parameters of a problem in order to define solution while artistic thinking is most often abstract and concerned with emotional and symbolic aspects and representations of topics. Design thinking is particularly useful i...

The year is drawing towards the end, and it is normal that most of us reflect upon the things that have happened to us during this year. Globally, the year was rather shitty with outrageous economic turbulences and downfalls, revolutions, occupations, liberations, executions... Sometimes I have a feeling that we have seen too much misery for just one year. The prospects for the next year appear equally gloomy but let us not despair in advance. Better think of it as another challenge that we are determined to overcome using our creativity and optimism. For me this year has been quite successful, both professionally and privately. I started this blog in April and so far its statistics reveal that its readership is constantly growing and each new day I have another visitor subscribing to my email list. This means that next year I will have to try to post much better articles and provide even greater amount of helpful information to my creative readers. Despite a dose of pessimi...