Design thinking involves many steps that interact and intersect. Creativity is a big part of design thinking—you must be a sponge and absorb concepts, images, and ideas around you. Looking at your surroundings, reading books, and observing visual stimuli will help you attain ideas. However, there will be many things that a person will absorb that must be filtered out. A person should become aware of bad design and of what is aesthetically not pleasing to the eye. It is a selective process. Then, you should find your creative voice and discover what it is that you are all about. Finding one’s style and interests comes from personal experience, including some of the things one has absorbed.
Brian Fies designs, writes, and draws his comics based off of his personal experience and what he has absorbed throughout his life. The content of the comics and graphic novels he creates is based off of his creative voice. He described his comics as summarizing everything about himself—he designed based off of his experiences and his personal ideas. Once he filtered out extraneous details and simplified his work, he finished his successful design of his comics. Design thinking is the most important aspect of all kinds of design.
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