Formstorming – search for ideas and forms in design

When creating designs, many designers use photo banks and various sites to search for ideas that will help solve a certain task. Formstorming is a type of visual thinking that is a designer’s tool, the task is to find and improve solutions to problems design.

Formstorming helps the designer come to a correct and effective solution that will be shown in a new way. A designer needs to have patience and work hard on a particular project, repeating, dividing, folding and revising, and self-discipline, and persistence in creating help to dive deep into the creative process.

When forming an idea, you need to look for different ideas, and only then choose one of many to find the right solution. Let’s look at some principles of form storming:

1. One hundred variants

If you repeat the same topic many times in different incarnations, then you are on the right track and deeply immersed in the topic of your project. It is very important to use as many solutions as possible from your database of associations and ideas. When creating a design, one theme is chosen and visually interpreted in a hundred different ways.

2.Templates for form storming

These templates provide designers with an inspiring place for visual and verbal ideas related to projects. Designers use formatted templates to organize necessary information in the preparatory phase, stimulating visual thinking, sketching, and exploring verbal and visual perspectives and media.

3.Design every day

Designing every day helps stimulate design thinking through daily creativity within a specific design project. This way designers can set parameters for their work,

including conceptual structure, material and format. The conditions specified in the brief and the time limit help develop key and effective discipline and time management skills.