As an AI language model, I don’t have personal experiences, but here are some common ways designers come up with ideas:
1. Conduct research: Designers research their competitors, target audience, and trends to learn more about what works and what doesn't.
2. Brainstorming: A group of designers have collaborative brainstorming sessions and come up with different ideas together.
3. Mind mapping: This technique involves writing a central idea on a piece of paper and connecting related words to create a mind map which helps to visualise the ideas.
4. Sketching: Designer can create quick drawings and sketches of their ideas to explore different angles or variations of an idea.
5. Inspiration from nature: Often nature is a source of inspiration for many designers. The colours, shapes, and textures of the natural world can be important sources of inspiration for design.
6. Experiment with shapes: Designers create abstract designs to experiment with shapes, pairing with different colours, and playing with the geometry of different shapes to come up with new ideas.
7. Constraints: sometimes it's helpful to work under specific constraints be it budget, timelines or objective in order to stir up creativity and find the right design idea.
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