{"id":375,"date":"2011-11-08T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uxtraordinary.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2018-10-06T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:47:10","slug":"habitual-creativity-turn-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/habitual-creativity-turn-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitual creativity: Turn around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a little over two years, I left work and went to a particular bus stop on Elliott &amp; Western in Seattle. So I spent a little time every day looking at this building, near the base of a hill leading up to the Queen Anne Hill area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Building facing bus stop\" src=\"..\/..\/imagery\/blog\/seattle-bus-stop-east-view.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One day, for whatever reason, I turned around and looked behind me. Due to an accident of unusual angles (hills, buildings, streets), suddenly I could see everything the building was hiding from me, including the Space Needle!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"building-behind-busstop\" src=\"..\/..\/imagery\/blog\/seattle-bus-stop-west.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The beauty of turning around is that it changes your perspective. Sometimes it even shows you the forest for the trees\u2014or in this case, the neighborhood for the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you turn around, metaphorically speaking? Here are some straightforward and a couple less obvious methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Try the other person&#8217;s perspective on for size. You may not end up agreeing with it, but you&#8217;ll understand it better, and this process frequently provides insight into design challenges. You UX people are used to this one.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Are you looking from the outside in, or UI first? Try flipping it. Do the mental exercise of imagining your web application from the back end out &#8211; network to content buckets to databases to identifying the right content to surfacing, navigating, and consuming it. Getting a better understanding of the building blocks will let you do more with your Lego.<\/li>\n<li>Set yourself challenges that push you beyond your normal boundaries to see the point of view inside someone else&#8217;s. For example, find a song you like in all the music genres you can think of.<\/li>\n<li>Like sitting alone? Join a group. Like groups? Try taking some time away from them.<\/li>\n<li>Reverse the flow. (No, <a title=\"Ghostbusters Wikiquotes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Ghostbusters\" target=\"_blank\">not that flow<\/a>.)\u00a0Does your taxonomy go from broad to specific? Why not try specific to broad? Or, put everything on the same level and make it flat. 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