{"id":127,"date":"2021-12-12T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/?p=127"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:24:20","slug":"an-interesting-ideation-concept-bad-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Cool ideation process: Bad Ideas 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paula <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paula Alexandra Silva, assistant professor of University of Coimbra, Portugal, published a concept for coming up with design ideas, called Bad Ideas 3.0 whilst as Lancaster University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Paula-Alexandra-Silva\/publication\/221323520_BadIdeas_30_a_method_for_creativity_and_innovation_in_design\/links\/0c96052e0519acca1d000000\/BadIdeas-30-a-method-for-creativity-and-innovation-in-design.pdf\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Paula-Alexandra-Silva\/publication\/221323520_BadIdeas_30_a_method_for_creativity_and_innovation_in_design\/links\/0c96052e0519acca1d000000\/BadIdeas-30-a-method-for-creativity-and-innovation-in-design.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is that if you come up with a bad idea, don&#8217;t dismiss it (as being a bad idea, as most would), but progress it, then maybe some good idea will emerge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example, think of a car without an engine. Think of the positives (low energy costs, environmentally friendly etc.), and the negatives (how does it move etc.), then maybe you end up with inventing a caravan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note (for those not familiar with the term): Ideation is literally the action of forming ideas, from their conception to implementation and application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Paula Alexandra Silva, assistant professor of University of Coimbra, Portugal, published a concept for coming up with design ideas,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-2"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darlotech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}