Legibility

Above is an iPad clothing app. Do i think its legible? Yes i do. For users of iPhones, iPads etc looking for a clothing application, this is very legible for they're needs. The headings for different sections are very clear as they are much larger than the other text used in the app and the layout of the application is very easy to use with buttons to navigate all around the app. The colours are clear and simple, which makes it easy to read text, look at images and recognise different sections and buttons. Images of clothing are clearly spread apart from each other throughout the app and there is no text over the images of clothing. However, with the images at the beginning of the app there is text above the images but the text is a different colour and image scan still be seen clearly.

This is a random image off the internet, but this image shows what text over a background works and doesn't work. The top image shows which contrast of colours doesn't work, the green text over the blue background. This is because the colour of the text makes the text hard to read as the image behind is a dark image. The image below shows what contrast of colours does work, the brighter gold text over the black image. The lighter colour text makes the text easier to read over a darker image. 

Managing A Creative Environment

Creativity is not just influenced by the internal thinking process of an individual but it is also influenced by the environment an individual is working in, their interests and culture. The workplace can help an individual with the production of ideas and their development. A certain environment with stimulating space can help individuals interact and broaden their thoughts.

Collecting work in different kinds of forms can influence our work. Collecting sources can act as a stimulus or as reflections of our own interests as creative practitioners. 

The environment i work in doesn't really influence me that much, especially when I'm working at home, however, i do find being at home and working at my place of study helps me concentrate the most rather than working in any other environments. I do think working in a certain environment which includes aspects to do with your work could be influential towards a better collection of ideas. Being in that place may give someone a better picture of what their doing their work on, give them more ideas.

Over coming mindsets

This is a deliberate thinking strategy to free oneself from taking on everyday problems, by taking on the conventional approach of thinking or habitual mode of thinking. Habitual thinking is what leads to the most predictable results, these kind of results lack any element of suprise. To free yourself from habitual thinking, maybe breaking the rules is the answer, however this does not mean doing something illegal, this just removes habitual thinking, such as certain conventions and comfort zones.

The are three processes to remove habitual thinking:

• The rules that are needed or wanted to be broken think about them and study their characteristics
• Find a possible way to challenge or change those rules
• And be playful and free yourself

As a practitioner, i could relax my habitual thinking by breaking the rules which i think would help me challenge my mindsets. I have certain comfort zones which help me study or think about certain things, my comfort zones are studying at home or at my place of study, university for example, i feel i can only work my best at these places and concentrate the most at these places. What if i could find somewhere else to work my best, travel around to help my work develop. 

Another habit of mine is having ideas pop into my head but not immediately put them down on paper, i usually delay putting them down. Maybe if i put these ideas down immediately, maybe it will help my own work develop, improve my overall thoughts about my work and help use my left and right side of the brain the way their supposed to be used.

Principle 2/ Utilise the creative brain

The brain consists of two halves. The right side is the creative part of the brain and the left side is the thinking part of the brain. Soon as an idea comes into the head, the idea must be drawn down and then written about. It is critical to draw down an idea as soon as it comes into the head, doing this will help other ideas and developments emerge. Also, doing this, is showing thinking on a page, this could be exploring different possibilities or outcomes. 

Using the left and right side of the brain together will improve our ability to use them when we need to use them. The right side of the brain is used for exploring the idea which has just been drawn down and the left side is used to annotate what has just been drawn down, doing this is improving the ability to use both sides of the brain at the right times, instead of righting down an idea and then drawing it for example. This is using the different sides of the brain at the wrong times. For effective thinking and good ideas and designs we must learn to use the right side before the left side of the brain.

We should always allow our right side of the brain to work, we must let it play around and experiment with ideas as it will help develop them. 

The right and left side of the brain must be shown on a page, it will help organise a layout for work in a sketchbook. For example, a drawing/ idea could be drawn on the right side of a page and the text analysing an idea could be on the left side of a the page.