Mind mapping

We did some group mind mapping in class yesterday, culminating in a quick 10-minute design. I can see how this method can help throw up lots of avenues of thought you might never otherwise come up with, meaning more design ideas can be explored.

Coming up with the mind maps was straightforward enough, but I found turning the concepts into a design really difficult. My brain feels like it's stuck in buffering mode when I try to do this and the design was already half-done by nimbler thinkers by the time I'd worked out how to start! Bit depressing - hopefully this is something that will come in (not too much) time...

I'll try the mapping technique again, anyway.