How to Brainstorm with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas related to a specific theme. Usually brainstorming involves a group of people generating a lot of ideas in a short period of time. The key to brainstorming is putting off the process of evaluating ideas until a later stage. The participants keep a record of their ideas as they come to mind, without thinking them over. Unorthodox and unusual thoughts are welcome, and no criticism or justification is allowed in order to encourage participation. Though one can brainstorm individually, the technique works better in a group, as ideas expressed by one participant trigger more ideas from others, often based on associations, and the participants can benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge. Brainstorming using a software tool has a lot of advantages over the traditional way of capturing ideas like flip-charts or white-boards. The latter have physical size limitations, which constrain the process as the number of ideas grows. Ideas become scattered around the room, making it is easy to overlook important ideas. Further grouping and prioritizing of ideas is inconvenient and requires a lot of effort. ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps to avoid these problems. Read here how to run a Brainstorming session with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

How to Create a Custom Library

Why do people use custom clipart to create their mind maps? First, this allows you to create your author's style. Making a mind map is a creative work, and each mind map depicts the personality of its author. More, the custom clipart is needed if your mind map often contains the same set of custom images that are not supplied with standard software package. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a custom clip art library to increase the visual capacity of your mind maps. You can even deploy them inside ConceptDraw MINDMAP so that you can use them through standard interface tools.