Reflection - Writer's Toolbox

The Writer's Toolbox reaffirmed some aspects that were vital to the process of this project which included idea development. One of the biggest challenges of this project was to really think long and hard about how to improve an item that already exists and that may or may not already be functionally appropriate. Writer's Toolbox talks about Concept Maps and freewriting and how both of these techniques can contribute to the brainstorming process. I found it imperative to use these methods because they did in fact work. Starting with the concept map which involved freewriting and let the ideas keep spawning. Sure enough after writing down problems with our object, we started to figure out ways solve those problems and that is what lead us to our final prototype. So by incorporating these methods, one can generate sound ideas that can be useful for the final stages.