“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct . . . ”

 Carl Jung

It is important to approach design with play and experimentation to come up with creative solutions. Play allows you to try anything and everything to spark ideas which could potentially be useful. These are a few examples of playful activities that could be helpful for generating ideas.

• Make marks in time to music – it doesn’t matter what the outcome looks like! Just make a response to the music in any medium and see what you end up with.
• Build using building blocks
• Make something with modelling clay or blu tack
• Draw 10 circles, set a timer for 1 min then try and draw as many things as you can using the circles.
• Find any object then spend 1 min thinking of as many possible uses for the object as you can. 
• Pick a word then spend 1 minute writing down as many words as you could possibly associate with it. 
• Try applying a personality to an inanimate object. What would it talk like? How would it behave?