Get those creative juices flowing

In one of our User Experience classes we were set up to do a brainstorming session. Before it began our teacher pulled out the Jenga blocks and told us to play for a bit.

He said that they do this at his work to get their minds thinking and working before they attempt at stretching it out without a warm up. It really proved to help a lot. I was surprised at how easily the biggest, and sometimes strangest ideas came up. We posted our sticky notes all over the wall and before long we were cracking out concepts like crazy.

I definitely suggest taking some time out from being infront of the computer every now and then. Put yourself in another place, environment.. anything and you will probably be able to come up with 10x as many new ideas than if you were to stare at the monitor for 3 hours with one cool new photoshop plugin, and no real reason to use it.