Design Process Journal !: The Pursuit of Unhappiness (mind map)

HEY PEOPLE!! Back again with the super exciting blogging time and right now I will discuss about something more fun such as.......MIND MAPPING! (Woohoooo!!) Well, if anyone has not know, mind map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain, quoting from the inventor of the term, Tony Buzan. Basically in a mind map, there is one topic to be issued and is placed in the middle of a plain paper. Then anything associated will be put in a branch according to each section. Each group or section will be colored differently. And we are encouraged to decorate and put images to our paper. Each section will be divided by topic, idea, sub-idea, sub sub-idea and endless sub if that is what you need. The whole idea of mind mapping is to incorporate words, images, numbers, logic, colors, spatial awareness and more to harness our full cortical skill (That was what Tony has said and since he is a popular psychology we should not doubt him then).

Making mind map is simple, it only requires a blank paper, colorful markers, and our imagination! The steps of making it according to Tony Buzan is first write the topic in the middle then expand to the sideways. Use images and colors to attract our mind. Then connect the branches because our mind works in association. The important thing is to use curvy lines instead of the straight one to connect each branches and use 1 keyword per line to make it easier for the brain to absorb.

For me personally, making mind map is interesting since we can draw anything-well not really anything, but I love to doodle and draw small images that representing the word. It is so much more fun rather than writing full page of essay without an artistic touch at all! So, my group and I did a little mind mapping for a class exercise. We were given some topics and ended up choosing "the pursuit of UNhappiness". Despite the weird topic, we have so much fun in making and brainstorming the idea. The final mind map looks like this!!

We divided the topic into 6 groups such as what, when, where, how, who and why. Actually the 'why' is covering all the what, when, where and etc.