Developing a good ideational fluency is important for maximising the outcome of your work. Ideational fluency is where you generate a lot of ideas in which fulfil certain requirements. These raw ideas do not all need to be strong, it is important in the early stages of your project to produce diversity, than a few quality ideas that may not lead anywhere.
There are many techniques in which you can broaden your ways of thinking to create more spontaneous ideas. The most obvious technique would be brainstorming your ideas visually on a page; this allows you to see all the links between your thoughts and so this lets you to expand on these connections. This technique could also be expanded by involving other people to add their own ideas, this could then create debates visually or verbally and so creating more diverse ideas.
Being a visual learner I gain from sketching my thoughts and so one technique used to generate a lot of quick ideas is by quickly sketching every idea that has a connection and everything that is the complete opposite. It is also a good technique to introduce a random element to see if this can create interesting tangents, which could then develop into further ideas.
Other techniques to create a diverse range of ideas could include; talking about a certain theme for a minute without stopping, where the other person records their response by drawing, this could lead to misinterpretations in which could develop into interesting ideas, or another way could simply be random doodling.
Below are two examples from my current sketch book, where I have started to communicate some of my initial ideas by doing very quick sketches. The quick sketches are easy to produce, easily understood and it is also a good way of creating spontaneous thinking.
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