Don’t Only Think about Ideas… Draw them
When you think about entrepreneurship the last thing you’re probably thinking about is art class. Would you believe me if I told you that actually drawing out your ideas is a major factor in successfully implementing your services, products, whatever it is that you’re thinking about creating.
There you are, sitting in the park with your girlfriend or boyfriend and not thinking about the sunny weather or the children playing in the swings, you’re thinking about taking over the world with your next big idea that’s swarming around in your head. So now what? Now what do you do with all these brilliant ideas that have been keeping you up at night and putting you to bed (daydreaming) in the day?
Get that Paper
Well, you walk over to your printer, pull out a few sheets of paper, grab your pencil of choice, and begin drawing. You don’t have to be Picasso or anything, but just go at it. Hold nothing back.
I’ll assume that you’re an internet entrepreneur thinking about the next hottest site that you want to create. Take that pencil and begin sketching your heart out. Forget about specifics and exact measurement, just draw babe! Just draw. Let your mind loose. Envision how you want the site to look, feel, and function.
Where should the navigation be? Where should the widget be placed? What should be focused in the header? Ask yourself these questions. Allow your mind to wander while you sketch and think about what people would want to see on the site, not only how “you” would want it to look.
Who’s the Entrepreneur, the designer?
A lot of entrepreneurs have these grand plans for the next big thing on the web, but when it comes to thinking about how said idea will actually look and function, they take a step back and leave all creative control to their designers and programmers.
Blah! Blah! That’s Rubbish.
You are the entrepreneur, not the designer. You are the visionary, not the designer. You are the one who needs to set the tone of how you want your idea to be presented to the market, not the designer. Sure, allow for people to do what they do best. But it’s imperative that you also communicate your personal ideas and visions of how you want the service to look and work.
Just draw, babe!
The entrepreneur must become an artist to some degree. Howard Hughes, one of America’s first billionaires (possibly the first) did just that: draw and sketch all day long. Whenever he had an idea, he laid it down on paper and went from there.
Have some fun. Make it a habit to sketch out your ideas. And start to see better results when it comes time to actually implementing those ideas into a real business.
