Creativestudio App

Problem Statement

There are rapid developments in learning with digital media. The technological developments of new media are divided into different trends. The learning progress enables independence in terms of time, content and space when learning. A further upswing is evident in the area of creativity. The different areas search for or promote minimally new ideas and unconventional solutions. Employees in the company should have special skills for this purpose. This raises the question of how far creativity can be learned and how natural creativity can be promoted through exercises.

Idea and Concept

The idea is to develop an app with creativity techniques for a diverse user group. The app is intended to promote the users‘ existing natural creativity. The new possibilities for teaching and learning should be taken into account in view of the independence of time, content and space. The creativity techniques are divided into the categories “idea generation”, techniques and sketchnotes, which means that real use cases or design processes can be taken into account. The aim of the app is, on the one hand, to learn new creativity techniques and, on the other hand, to apply them to real idea generation. The focus is on exercises that can be done alone and at any time in everyday life.

Implementation

The prototype was implemented in Adobe XD – with vector graphics created in Illustrator. This was then developed in Java using the Android Studio Code development environment. In a short onboarding tutorial, the user can have the app’s task explained to them at any time when opening the app. Creativity techniques from different categories can then be selected and edited. The main task of the users is to apply creativity techniques or learn new ones. Different tools can be used to create the content. Additionally, the content can be saved in the app or as an image on the device. Another component is the favourites, which allows the user to favourite exercises and find quick ones in the app.