ideation Tips

Practice1. Research three products that have the exact same functionality but use different materials and/or manufacturing processes and perhaps are at three different price points. 2. Annotate the photographs, as…

Practice This is a practice of visual language analysis and design anatomy. A brand use visual language to communicate features via a three-dimensional. Many brands developed their own visual grammar.…

Daily Practice The principle of aesthetic characterize a range of artistic elements such as shape, color, texture, line, and use of space, to convey values, capture emotion, create unity, communicate meaning,…

Daily Practice This practice is intended to give an in-depth analysis or study of existing product,  use explanatory sketch as a tool to map out all the research findings, understand the…

Daily PracticeThese Sketchnotings were done by one of my former students-Wei Wang. When he was studying and sketching existing products, he's not only drawing them but also used sketching to…

Daily Practice As a product designer, whatever you design will at some stage have to be manufactured. An exploded view drawing could explain how the separate elements of your design…

Daily PracticeExplore widely, from water flow, ginkgo leaves, insects, animals, human figures. Try to observe and understand the object first, proportion, the mass or the volume, subtle surface transition, form…

Daily Practice After have studied the internal components or had a clear idea of the volumes or structure frame a product needed, the approach of use planes to visualize the mass…

Daily PracticeSketch StormingOnce the conditions and constrains was settled through early user research and prototype study, Sketch Storming is a great way for initially coming up with lots of ideas…