Jillian Tamaki explains in her article essential and necessary steps to coming up with ideas and how to execute them. These steps include finding inspiration from all places that include watching film, reading books, reading news, visiting museums, etc. to be as invested as possible. Next is to record and collect these images to have for references and have those references easily accessible. Another step is choosing your words first and carefully because is starts to have clearer ideas rise and think of many associations. Next, adding images that can help trigger more ideas. After, you can combine the words and images together to get inspiration and use that as a guide for your ideas. Lastly, creating thumbnails will help pave the way and make it clear to execute your art pieces. 

Some techniques that she uses that I have already incorporated into my idea generation process are collecting data to learn more about my topic and using images that can help me trigger more ideas. Some new techniques that I’ve learned that I find helpful are choosing words first carefully to have clearer ideas and having more word associations and combining words and images to get inspiration and see my ideas become a guide.