Professional Practice
In a few brief paragraphs research and describe in your own words how you would tackle each of the points below.
- Communication of Ideas
- Presentation Skills
- Generating Ideas
- What Design Means
- Project Planning
Communication of ideas and concepts
How to put your ideas across by communicating them and your concepts to others so they remember them. First think how you are going to get your idea across are you going to show your ideas/concepts on paper. Or are you going to show something or get other people involved to put your idea across or will you say something.
- Create a concept story
- Create a concept map
- Communicate with visuals
- Communicate with help from others
- Communicate by saying something
Presentation Skills
There are three things you should do when you make a presentation. The first of these is using visual aids when appropriate. Visual Aids help you achieve your goals and objectives without boring the people you are presenting too. Research as been done that shows how people take in information during a presentation. Research shows that during a presentation we only take in 7% text. Compare this to 55% visual aids and 38% speaking. So when doing a presentation make sure you include some visual aids whether they be pictures, graphs, tables or props. Don't make your presentation all text because your audience will lose interest.
Always be prepared for your presentation don't turn up and forget what you are going to say. Its a good idea to rehearse your speech out loud a few times before you do your presentation. Also before the day of the presentation rehearse it in front of family and friends and get their feedback. I did this when I was best man at my Brothers Wedding and it helped me conquer my nerves because I had rehearsed it out loud in front of people before hand.
If your presentation as to fit within a time frame make sure it is not too short or too long. A good way to do this is time yourself so you know how long your presentation will be.
Most of the time your audience will only remember three things from your presentation. This is known as the rule of three because we tend to only remember 3 things. So when writing a presentation make sure you plan the three main messages you want to get across. Once you have these structure your presentation around them so they are the main content of your presentation. Also have a beginning, middle and end to the presentation.
Generating Ideas
Generating ideas can be easy and hard it all depends on what you are generating ideas for. Don't just come up with one idea come up with as many as you can. Always jot down your ideas on paper as soon as they enter your head. I find writing down words that are associated with the company, business etc work. Also drawing visuals on layout paper or in a sketchbook help me come up with ideas.
For instance when I was working in Design I had to come up with corporate id's for clients. I used to write a list of things associated with their business/company down on paper as a starting point. From them I would draw out ideas for their logo, corporate id on paper. I would also research the company to see what they did because if you don't know anything about them how are you going to create a corporate id for them.
What Design Means
For me design means the following:
- Design is a way of communication
- Design is creating something and bringing it to life
- Design is something that is pleasing on the eye
- Design is all around
Project Planning
Project planning is a way of showing how you intend to work on the project from beginning to end with in a deadline. Have a checklist of things you need to do in a certain time frame and tick them off as you do them. Then move onto the next stage and do the same again so you know what you've done and what still needs to be done.
References
http://www.wisdump.com/design/what-design-means-to-me
http://www.presentationmagazine.com
http://www.wakeupcloud.com/generate-ideas
