How To Use Design Thinking Principles For Writing

You don’t need a Magic Bullet. Follow a set process

You open the Mobile app or You open the Medium.com

Click on the + sign, Write a Story

And then… two things happen

1. Keep researching for the article you are about to write
2. A blank canvas and this stays blank for some time.

But, you don’t want both to happen. What you want is to Write, Write and Write and be in a flow state

One of the methods (I have been experimenting with many) that you can explore is “Bucketing”

1. Ideation

2. Research

3. Content preparation

4. Final Draft & Review

5. Publish

6. Engage with the Audience, Respond to comments which lead to Ideation

Let’s get into each of the buckets

Ideation :

Start listing down the idea you get. Or even better, dedicate time to sourcing all the ideas, and headlines you can write about.

Research:

Research the topic, read the book and try out the experiment or habit you want to write about. Journal this and identify the pattern

Content Preparation