Week 6: Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

A way of solving problems by thinking out of the box

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One Example of  Lateral Thinking

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Here are some puzzle for you to solve.......

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How do you connect these 9 dots with 4 straight lines continuously without lifting your pencil from paper?

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How do you trace this design in one continuous line without crossing the line on the way?

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Rearrange 3 balls so that the arrow will point downwards.

Here are the Answers!!!!!!!!

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Class Exercise 

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Imagine a room : the window on the at the back is open. In front of the window there is a table with a vase, in which a fresh rose stands. A painting of flowers hangs on the opposite wall ( at the whiteboard area). A bee flies into the room through the open window, straight to the painting and not the rose.

WHY?!?!?!?!

Here are the 5 logical reasons and 5 nonsensical reasons

5 Logical Reason

1) The painting is more realistic 

2) The paint may have food ingrediant in it

3) Bees like vibrant colours

4) The paint might be painted in honey

5) The flower is dead

5 Nonsensical Reason

1) The bee is dumb

2) That is not even a bee

3) The bee is drunk

4) The bee is blind

5) The bee has no common sense

Week 5: Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping 

Definition of Mind Mapping

Mind map is a visual representation of hierarchical information that includes a central idea surrounded by connected branches of associated topics.

Here are some example of various images mind mapping: 

Mind Map 1

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Mind Map 2

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Mind Map 3

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Mind Map 4

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Mind Map 5

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Group Project on Happy Life or Education

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This is my mind map from my group in Creative Thinking lesson explaining on Happy Life or to break down to deeper understanding

Here are some of the other students fanciful Mind Mapping

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Week 4: TED Motivational Talk

The First Secret of Design

(Tony Fadell)

Tony Fadell in TED

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Tony's job is to imagine invisible changes to objects everyday. For example, the iPod development and revolutionized the world enjoy listening the music

Sticker on a Fruit

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Tony's talking about the fruit

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He mention about a product designer how he fights back against the human tendency towards habituation of having a tiny sticker on the fruit. The first time you had to find the sticker, dig it out of your fruit and flick it off your finger, it was pretty annoying. By the tenth time, it probably didn’t bother you as much, and by the hundredth time, you probably did not notice it at all.

Look Wider

                                                                          

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Look Broader

There are often lots of steps leading up to the problem, and lots of steps after it. Looking at the whole process, start to finish, to identify problems that need improving.

Look Closer

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Look Closer

Focus on the small details that make all of the difference. For example, agonizing over designing the perfect screw to make home installation as easy as possible. Though the process was time intensive. Instead a small detail can make a very big differences 

Young Thinkers

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Think Younger

The more we’re exposed to something the more we get used to it. When kids run into problems, they try to solve it and find a better way. Have young people, and people with young minds

Fashion and Creativity

(Isaac Mizrahi)

Isaac Mizrahi in TED

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A fashion designer talking on how creativity of design of clothes and not having a boring life

Change of a Life

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I learn from Isaac's video that creativity is the key to brighten of any outfit of any design will make a life not boring 

Creative Thinking

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To my understanding of creativity of both video is about the wonderful knowledge in our head put it to reality and you will see improvement that you didn't though of

Creativity

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Week 3: Group Brainstorming

Brainstorming

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To suggest a lot of ideas for very quick time before considering them. Massive thinking in another words

Mind-Mapping

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This is a image of a brainstorming project to come out ideas on how to have time management

Ideas

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After brainstorming ideas are form of different opinion base on the topic. Its also a problem solved solution and creativity of something big or interesting

How to save the Earth

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After learning and researching on what is brainstorming we apply the knowledge of it. We were given a task to think of 101 ways to save the earth

Ways of saving

Ways of saving

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This is a few of 101 ways how to save the earth and we were asked to choose 20 ways out and present and explain to the class what does it means

Week 2: Breaking the Rules in my view

Breaking the Rules

Protect the Egg from Cracking

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We did a project of using material to wrap the egg or even create a structure to protect the egg from cracking during the drop test in class. To my understanding when an egg, gravity force drop a height it will crack so the challenge is to prevent it from

cracking during the drop test. Hence that is call breaking the rule

Matchbox Inspired Cotton Buds

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This picture is a inspired by matchbox design and usually when you open it, matchstick are inside but this is taking it to a new level by using the style of the matchbox and recreation cotton buds holder.

Icing Sugar inspired Candle

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Looking at the crystalize glitter on the candle wax makes me feel like eating them, it resemble

of candies display in shop

Tea to Ice

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This is a cup pouring out the tea or liquid but it descend with

ice or crystal. It also bring out the values that water is as precious as crystal

Camera Radio

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This is my friend project work display in school he bought a old set of radio

dismantle it and redesign the parts into a camera

Pylon Safety Lights

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This picture taken during the light festival at marina bay and the pylon is usually seen

used on road directing the vehicles, but here they use as an lighting event, its so cool

Keep of the Grass

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The sign says to keep off the grass but this man dis not follow, therefore he is breaking the rules

Do Not Enter

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The sign is paste on the fence not to enter but they still break the rules by attempting to climb into the compound

Coffee or Tea??

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This cup is a cup for coffee but this person use a teabag in this cup not following it

No Dogs

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The words painted on the floor no dogs allowed but the break the rule by standing on the word 'NO' blocking it and it became dogs allowed. This dog is rather smart to do such thing