What is Workflow?
Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/
“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com
What is a quality workflow? How do we develop it? Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something. First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage. Read on and find out!
Stages of Creation Development
Inspiration
How do we find ideas to develop?
- We can use our mind, the internet, and our real life experiences to create ideas
- We should think about the idea first, how you came up with it and is it a good idea
- Again think about what makes an idea good, is it unique? Would it be a common idea other people also have?
- You and everyone else around you
Intention
How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?
- Your brain, paper and pencil, talk about it with other people
- Keep of your goals on what ever tool you want to use and try check marking them off
- You have to think about whether your goals will be worth it in the end
- Yourself
Pre-production
How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?
- Your brain, the internet, paper and pencil
- Use your head to think about ideas and go over them with yourself or others
- You have to think about if your ideas are interesting and how it would look at the end production
- Yourself and who you´re trying to appeal to
Production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.
- Anything that would be required, your brain, the internet, pencil, paper, anything
- Think or talk about it with yourself of others involved
- You have to think about who´s feedback you want from and what they would say
- Yourself, people involved, and people who you´re trying to get feedback from
Post-production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.
- Who have to use our social skills and our brains
- You should make sure if it turned out the way you wanted it to
- You can compare your project to other projects you have done or others have done
- Yourself and people involved
Presentation/Performance
How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?
- The internet would be the best choice to get your project out there
- Think about the best ways to get you information spread around and do it
- Whether the people like your project or not
- People all around the world have the ability to measure the quality of your project
Feedback
How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?
- You can use the internet, maybe make a survey asking people about your project
- Go out and ask people what they think about your project
- Taking the feedback you got and deciding if it was positive or negative
- The people other than yourself