Why is it good to draw your ideas?
Do you remember when you were a child, did you take a paper, a pencil and Did you put your vision of the world? Are you still maintaining that spirit innocent in which all that was in your head ended in a folio or even in a wall of Your room? How long have you abandoned that good habit?
Well, in this post I will explain the importance of drawing your ideas to foster Your creativity or that of your team and why the ability to capture ideas visually It is a fundamental ability to innovate, undertake or create new products and services.
I encourage you to keep reading and understand why, capture your ideas in a folio in White, it is not only a fundamental tool for product designers, but It also benefits professionals such as programmers, product managers, companies, Finance experts, lawyers . . .
Why painting your ideas is important?
Drawing is a form of universal communication. In addition, the fact of painting your ideas Require your time and concentration. You need to stop, put yourself in front of a paper and think about how to land your ideas through a visual element that allows to others (and to yourself) clarify abstract and complex concepts.
You don't have to be Picasso. If for example, you have an idea of how improve a process, you can simply paint a flowchart and within it indicate Where your idea fits.
Draw helps detect problems and think about solutions
Painting your ideas will allow you to identify problems and make them visible to others and this is a source of inspiration for you and for your collaborators when devising solutions to this problem.
In addition, it encourages constructive feedback since someone knows something that You do not know or have an idea about what you are raising that drawing will serve as a channeling of all that knowledge and setting points in common.
And I repeat, you don't need your drawings to end in the Louvre. Moreover, you don't always have than being a drawing to use what you need to identify problems. I will put you An example. Imagine that you have a budget in the head but never land it on a sheet of Excel with each of its concepts. I am convinced that it will be much more difficult to communicate this budget and it will be even more difficult Identify what are the games in which the most money is leaving and that They could be optimized. The simple fact of putting all those numbers on an excel sheet With all its concepts it makes you and the rest of your team understand this budget and Think about which concepts could act to generate savings.
Painting help create more creative projects
Draw activates different areas of the brain that are not used that are not activated when We write or talk. This creative process can help you think outside the box and discover new perspectives and innovative solutions that, otherwise, You would have considered. In addition, being embodied on paper, it will help you Communicate that new idea to others.
At this point I invite you to make a reflection, if you are able to draw something, for Very crazy that seems to you, it will be simpler that that crazy idea becomes a reality.
Draw save time and money on your project
Drawing your ideas you can iterate very easily. You can experience different Concepts without investing much time and money. This is especially useful in early phases of any project or at times of the project in which there is not much clarity and The different team members have very different visions.
A drawing helps to capture an idea and make it tangible. You can make as many drawings as views to address a problem in order to analyze quickly and effective the pros and cons of each solution in order to take the best Decision when investing resources to build that idea.
A paper and a ball do not cost much money . . . instead, set up an entire project, be it a technological solution, a new methodology in a law firm or a Store in your neighborhood requires an investment in energy and resources you have That being moderately sure that it will work. If before doing so you draw it You will save many dislikes.
Drawing you can convince about your vision
You may be a restless mind and have an innate ability to reach innovative ideas No need to draw them. If so, I congratulate you. But think one thing . . . Perhaps others who have to communicate your ideas do not have that vision that You have.
It is frustrating when you want to communicate that idea that you see so clear in your head and the rest of the people are not able to understand it. I assure you that the occasions are infinite in which I have met this circumstance both in myself and in others.
Simply draw your idea and you will see how it will be easier that others who do not have that vision that you have are able to better understand what what do you mean.
Draw it empowers you about ideas
Drawing your ideas will give you a feeling of control and empowerment About ideas. It makes you take the initiative in the development of innovative concepts And it provides you with a powerful tool when expressing your vision in a way effective
Who proposes leads. I will tell you something, in all the projects I have worked In my rare life it has been the time who arrives with a proposed proposal, even in a simple Drawing, it is not the one who leads all the conversations about that idea.
Think, create, innova and . . . draw
As you could see, drawing your ideas is an essential practice in the scope of innovation. It is not a task dedicated only to Product designers. Invites anyone from your team to express themselves to through drawings that allow you to communicate, inspire and reach agreements.
Painting these ideas will help anticipate problems and find solutions that, otherwise, Maybe they would never have emerged. Will make both your efforts more efficient entrepreneurs if you are at this point as the processes in your company if You are consolidated and remember . . . it is a child again. Take a paper, a pencil and think that drawing is much cheaper than a great idea than no one Understand, visualize and do not know how to execute.
