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A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. [Wiki] For designers, mind mapping can help them in a vast array of ways that most haven’t even thought of. Below we’ve taken the time to outline how you (the designer) can benefit from mind-mapping.

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1. Helps You Better-Explore a Subject
2. Study & learn a new topic
3. Plan your schedule
4. Innovate & invent
5. Create new ideas
6. Expand existing ideas
7. Tap your unique talents
8. Increase your brain power
9. Consolidate your existing knowledge
10. Summarize your skills
11. Plan ahead
12. Plan Strategically
13. Implement your learning
14. Outline your business or a Clients business
15. Outline your productive writing
16. Outline your projects needs and requirements
17. Study, learn & pass certification exams
18. Boost your memory
19. Manage your day/week/month/year
20. Unlock your potential
21. Solve problems
22. Increase motivation
23. Take notes & create overviews
24. Develop your creative thinking
25. Plan presentations
26. Plan speeches
27. Fire up your imagination
28. Clarify your thoughts
29. Simplify your life
30. Summarize your budget
31. Create targets
32. Teach other colleagues
33. Improve thinking skills
34. Control time management
35. Plan product/package writing
36. Self-investigation
37. Plan an event
38. Summarize important books
39. Plan code recipes
40. Explore your past mistakes in web design
41. Contemplation & relaxation
42. Researching
43. Planning your retirement
44. Freeing up your mind
45. Planning a better design
46. Learn a new language
47. Plan your wanted skills
48. Take meeting minutes
49. Explore existing knowledge
50. Map out your interests
51. Create instruction templates
52. Summarize humour & fun
53. Investigate what you want to do
54. Investigate what makes you unhappy as a designer
55. Devise checklists
56. Analyze your dreams
57. Create acronyms for memorization
58. Discover what you want to do with your life
59. Plan a blog post
60. Use as a therapy
61. Organize & bring order to daily life
62. Map out a holiday or much needed vacation
63. Summarize an event or concert
64. Plan a website
65. Pinpoint your values
66. Unlock associations
67. Dive into more projects at a time
68. Plan your reading material
69. Organize house or business materials & paint colours/codes
70. Log skill improvements
71. Pinpoint your goals
72. Categorize your level of experience
73. Discover new combination’s for colors
74. Outline daily tasks
75. Create teaching overviews
76. Plan & present your resume/portfolio
77. Develop Better thinking skills
78. Investigate lessons learnt from failures
79. Find your unique personal qualities
80. Research inspiring & successful people
81. Categorize crops, plants & flowers in your garden
82. Summarize content of important conferences, blog posts, and more
83. Organize your favorite books
84. Organize your favorite tutorial websites
85. Explore potential answers to development problems
86. Stretch imagination & fantasy
87. Log experiences
88. Plan foods & diets for better living
89. Log and Overcome Challenges in your Life and Career

There you have it!