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Definition (Methods and Techniques for Definition (Introduction to Methods…

- - - - Identify Key Issues
      - Redefine the problem
      - Bridge between the way things are and the way you want things to be
      - Conceptualize ideas and specify parameters
      - Translate negatives into objectives
      - Name key tasks and persona related to the problem
      - Make meaning from the facts you gathered
    - - Defining the problem determines the nature of solution
      - Clarify the problem
      - Distill information to extract meaning
      - Translate discoveries into meaning and direction
    - - Begin each statement with "IN what ways might I..."
      - Play freely with the problem statement
      - Develop a problem statement for the real problem
      - Define your audience; consider who is directly involved / impacted by the problem
      - Once problem definition is decided, setup measurable objectives to meet the goal
- - - - Find other ways to describe the same thing
        
        Selection of terminology is important
        
        Relate new subjects to what you already know
        
        Find connections to what is important
    - - Define a criteria for listing and ranking properties
        
        apply the bulk of your energy to high priority terms
        
        start with a random list of everything
        
        review and organize list by gathering related components
        
        examine each group individually
        
        derive a statement of primary focus based on the group with the highest priority
    - - Derive knowledge by translating thoughts and feelings into written words
        
        Get your thoughts onto paper
        
        use sketches to convey visual ideas
        
        make basic diagrams to communicate actions and events
    - - Highlight the key content discovered in your analysis
        
        Underscoring, circling, bracketing
        
        strip highlighted elements out and put them in a list
        
        rewrite highlighted content on a new sheet, attempting to abstract their essential meaning
        
        summarize a paragraph in a single sentence
    - - Embrace the seemingly irrelevent
        
        understand the emotional and irrational elements of a problem
        
        springboarding: applying metaphorical processes to your brainstorming activity
        
        direct analogy: how any two things are related to one another
        
        personal analogy: empathize with situation conditions
        
        allow a subject to have life; thinking of things as autonomous living agents
    - - Don't reinvent the wheel
        
        seek definitions that have already been estabished
        
        research previous research
        
        use a variety of reference material; libraries, databases, internet
    - - Problems beget problems; discover what is their core
        
        define the issues that lay nested inside other issues
        
        find the principal problem within the larger problem
        
        work inside-out to see how changes in individual components effect the greater system
    - - Identify relationships between all major components
        
        essence-finding
        
        seek to identify relative importances of relationships in order to determine
        
        prioritize components and relationships
    - - Clearly define your objectives
        
        make sure your objectives are measurable
        
        how will you know when an objective has been completed?
        
        clearly laid out objectives allow you to make incremental steps in accomplishments
    - - If you encounter a fork in the road, look at it as a positive opportunity for discovery
        
        review contradictory information
        
        work through ambivalence
        
        explore different avenues
        
        view it positively as an additional opportunity
  - - - when we are looking to expand the realm of possibilities for the current phase and open up our mind to as many ideas and concepts as possible
    - - we begin to take the best elements we have discovered in our divergent process and distill and synthesize them down into core ideas, concepts, beliefs, and values
  - - - age
      - gender
      - ethnicity
      - income bracket
      - location
    - - ability to mentally project ourselves inside someone else's body and try and understand the situation
    - - Persona Generation Template