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Journaling About Creativity, Design, and Collaboration: 3. Lost and Found Mental Models

Part 3 in the creativity journal transcriptions series.

Continuing this series, where I share one page and transcription of a handwritten journal entry.

Transcribing each page, it's a small transformation going from the handwritten words into typed. Encoding of instinctual feeling and intentional meaning happens in subtle ways on the handwritten page.

Lost and Found Mental Models

Page 3.

Inventory a list of steps to

make something.

Describe this

progression as chapters in a story.

Describe this progression as the

Life Stages of a creature.

Describe using metaphors:

  • Playing a sport
  • Designing and office space
  • Buying and assembling furniture
  • Choose your own metaphor to frame the appearance and experience of the progression to make a thing.