This stage in the reading was all about the exploration and refinement of ideas. The importance of exploring and refining ideas is to come up with and present ideas in a clearer manner. In the design world, I think this is vital because without being able to effectively explore different ideas to show the client and refine them so that they can be visually read by the client, it would be very difficult to explain your design idea(s). This reading and these ideas presented in this stage all tie back to when Jimmy was talking about visual literacy as well.
Further in the reading, the author explains how important sketching is in the design world. Drawing is a language and it is how designers first start to visually express their ideas. As a designer one must practice sketching ideas all of the time no matter if it is on an old napkin, newspaper, or sketchbook. This is something I know I need to practice and start doing more of. Sketching more often will definitely help in improving the visual literacy of my design ideas and encourage myself to pour out all of my ideas on paper so that they are tangible and not forgotten in my thoughts. I'm going to make it sort of a work out routine for me and sketch out new ideas every day.
The author also mentioned that sketching is not the only form of expressing design ideas, but three-dimensional mediums may also be used. I found this interesting and I think I am going to challenge myself to build models in 3-D when my ideas call for such mediums.
Now I'm off to start sketching some ideas I've got in my noggin!
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