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Find your ideas and progress by 'design'

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In my job as an engineer and product designer, every day, I have to come up with progressive solutions to keep myself and my employers ahead of the competition. After twenty years and six industries of designing solutions, the process has become second nature... I'm always looking to find those neat solutions that elegantly do the job. Reflecting back now, I realize the solutions finding process is a 'designing' process; you design your solutions. And its a process that is summarized by just four basic steps.

Stride4 tutorial - step 3 - 'Ideas'

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Creating ideas, really good ideas, is what some would call a gift.
However, you can learn the art of creating great ideas on demand relatively easily. Its just a matter of learning good ways to trigger more relevant ideas. It can all be done with some simple thinking steps together with capturing your thoughts on paper as you progress.

Stride4 tutorial - step 2 - 'Reality Check'

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The 'reality check' is the 'r' in st-'r'-ide4. It's the part of stride4 I get most excited about. It builds on the first step of stride4 'set target'.

The 'Reality Check is designed to get you thinking, to get you questioning your assumptions. You could 'reality check' the assumptions you just made minutes ago about what is important for solving a problem. Or at the other extreme, you could reality check the things that you, your business, or your industry may have been doing on autopilot for years.

Design Thinking Tutorial

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Stride4ing is very easy and it's fun once you know how2 stride4. Are you a planning and goal setting person? Or are you perhaps a critical thinking person, always picking holes in things. Or are you an amazing ideas person? Or possibly the frequent opposite, a 'Do-er' a person just driven to get things finalized ? With stride4 you will learn to tune in to your preferred way of working and compliment this with other ways of thinking for overall real progress and better overall results.

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