Defining: Re-framing and defining the problem in human-centric ways. Ideating: Creating many ideas in ideation sessions. Prototyping: Adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping. Testing: Developing a prototype/solution to the problem.

The design thinking process is broken up into five specific design thinking stages: empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

Stage 5: Test—Try Your Solutions Out Although this is the final phase, design thinking is iterative: Teams often use the results to redefine one or more further problems. So, you can return to previous stages to make further iterations, alterations and refinements – to find or rule out alternative solutions.

There are two types of Prototype building. Low Fidelity: Low Fidelity prototypes are best during the early stages. They help to make changes very quickly with little effort. Medium Fidelity: Medium fidelity prototype are usually represented through storyboards and user scenarios.

Here a prototype is made using video just to show others the idea in a graphical/visual format.

• Feasibility Prototype. This type of prototype is usually developed to determine the feasibility of various solutions.
• Horizontal Prototype.
• Rapid Prototype.
• Simulations.
• Storyboard.
• Vertical Prototype.
• Wireframe.
• Animations.

Following are four reasons why prototyping is important.

• Evaluating and Testing the Design.
• Clarifying Production Costs and Issues.
• Selling the Product to Others.

However, there are actually four distinct types of prototypes, each suited for testing different assumptions.

• FEASIBILITY PROTOTYPES. For prototyping new technology (ex.
• LOW-FIDELITY USER PROTOTYPES. Essentially an interactive wireframe (doesn’t look real).
• HIGH-FIDELITY USER PROTOTYPES.
• LIVE-DATA PROTOTYPES.

Tools and techniques for generating ideas

• Idea Challenge.
• SCAMPER Technique.
• Opposite Thinking.
• Analogy Thinking.
• Idea Management Tool.

11 best ways to brainstorm creative ideas

1. Be unselfconcious. Making notes is important, or you’ll lose track of what you said.
2. Get the timing right. For many people, late morning is a good time to be creative.
3. Look outside for inspiration.
4. Give full disclosure.
5. Question the brief.
6. Sit around a proper table.
7. Go back to basics with physical things.
8. Be honest.

Popular Ideation Techniques to Try

• Brainstorming. In a brainstorm, the goal is to leverage the power of the group to build on each other’s ideas.
• Method 6-3-5. Method 6-3-5 is a form of brainstorming in which six people write down three ideas in five minutes.
• Prototyping.
• Five Whys Analysis.
• Storyboard.

Best Practice Rules for Effective Brainstorming

1. Set a time limit.
2. Start with a problem statement, Point of View, How Might We questions, a plan or a goal – and stay focused on the topic.
3. Defer judgement or criticism, including non-verbal.
4. Encourage weird, wacky, and wild ideas.
5. Aim for quantity.
6. Build on each others’ ideas.

Let´s see our example: Our topic was Wellness, we had six different categories for it: intellectual, spiritual, social, emotional, physical and ocupational.

Ideation refers to the process of developing and conveying prescriptive ideas to others, typically in a business setting. It describes the sequence of thoughts, from the original concept to implementation. Ideation can be expressed in graphical, written, or verbal terms.

The Top 10 Catalysts for Great Ideas

• When you’re inspired.
• Brainstorming with others.
• When you’re immersed in a project.
• When you’re happy.
• Collaborating with a partner.
• Daydreaming.
• Analyzing a problem.
• Driving.

Ideation Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for ideation?

Ideation is clearly not a word that is commonly used, and its original definition was the process of forming new ideas or images, so now it makes complete sense. In the MSNBC example, ideation is being used to mean thinking of new ideas.

See the Origin of Ideate But though ideate is tied to ancient philosophy, the word itself is a modern concoction, relatively speaking. It first appeared in English only about 400 years ago.

Definitions of mentation. noun. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully. synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process. see more.

Summary. Mentation is an important component of every patient assessment. Normal mentation is characterized by appropriate interactions with and responses to external stimuli. A patient with normal mentation may be described as bright, alert, and responsive (BAR) or quiet, alert, and responsive (QAR).

Megan explains what mentation means, with emphasis on classifying patients as QAR (Quiet/Alert/Responsive), BAR (Bright/Alert/Responsive), and Dull/Depressed.

mental activity unconscious

Listen to pronunciation. (ob-tun-DAY-shun) A dulled or reduced level of alertness or consciousness.

Characteristics may include confusion, disorientation, agitation, inattention, and disorganized behavior. Patients may even develop psychotic symptoms of hallucinations and delusions. Delirium may be associated with psychiatric, encephalopathic, or intracranial causes of altered mental status.

This ROOT-WORD is the Suffix MENT meaning ACT Of, STATE OF & RESULT OF AN ACTION. MENT makes nouns out of verbs when added to them. If you look down the list, you will see that nearly every word without the Suffix MENT is a verb. With the Suffix MENT the word becomes a noun.

“less, smaller, fewer” (Northumbrian leassa), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian les “less;” Middle Dutch lise “soft, gentle,” German leise “soft”), from PIE root *leis- (2) “small” (source also of Lithuanian liesas “thin”) + comparative suffix.

I ment we went down to the canteen to get some puddin, rice and tapioca. Not ment the Gods may be vniust, that breedes my chaunging cheere. They said the King of Shashma ment to goe to the Emperour the next moneth.

disappointment

• disappointment.
• accomplishment.
• understatement.
• acknowledgment.
• discouragement.
• arrondissement.
• divertissement.
• noninvolvement.