How to Create a Mind Map?
Step 1. Begin with the main subject
The first step is to draw the subject at the center of the mind map. This subject could be anything – a problem statement, a new feature, a new application all together. The Subject is the focus of our mind map and hence takes the center of the mind map. As a sample I will designing a sample mind map for a new Dashboard feature in our website, this dashboard analyzes the startups on various metrics, step 1 is to create the subject:
Step 2. Add branches to the main subjects
The next step is to work on the potential solution of the problem, or if it is a feature what are the possible implementation of that feature. If you have multiple ideas for a problem you can start start creating extensions and specify your ideas. In my case I am creating a feature for a dashboard so I am adding all the potential features that dashboard option with have in our website:
Step 3. Add sub branches depicting solution in detail
The potential solutions can be further broken down into smaller sub groups of actionable points, in this step we divide the solution into smaller action points. In our case since we are designing mind map for a feature, we will divide individual feature into smaller actionable parts of a feature:
Step 4. Final Touch and iterations
The final step is to firstly add some contrast to the groups, every group which is our cases are KPIs, Product, Bar graphs and Social Media should be easily to differentiate with other groups. For this you can add contrast using color, typography etc. After that having multiple iterations and choosing the best one also makes the mind map more thoughtful. And with that our final mind map appears to be like:
Mind Map in UI/UX Design
Understanding a problem is halfway through solving a problem and the same happens in design as well, understanding a problem completely is the most crucial part for coming up with potential solutions, and in design, we have a very simple tool to not only understand the problem but also come up with potential solutions. A Mind Map is a visual thinking tool in a tree structure with the main topic in the center, its potential solutions connected to that topic, and later subdivisions of these solutions connected to each solution. In this article, we will discuss what Mind Maps are. how to design Mind Maps and why they matter.