Thinking Ideas... A Designer Block (week 2)



This is my most agonizing part of the process - the first step before starting to actually design the product. I get a piece paper (or sketch book) and my favorite "Lamy" pencil, and glance at an empty page with full intention to come up with some ideas for the design

At this point, I have some faith that by having done the research, I will be able to start coming up with ideas.  But I also see that by doing research, it doesn't mean that I would automatically create something brilliant or that ideas would just flow at me.
Research has a different purpose, and still, very important during the sketching stage. It gives me inspiration and good background to keep me focused and not stray away from the developed concept and purpose.  At least, to be faithful to the concept, I need to maintain this focus.

 Nonetheless, sketching, for me, is still very challenging, 

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