I let ideas build upon one another, finding many different paths to explore. The only constraint I imposed was that of a certain design unity, to keep things pretty and as intuitive as possible.
After a while, I reached the end of the definition (on paper) of a feature set that I thought was powerful and pretty.
Then, I immersed myself in the incredible resources of the University of Berkeley library system (freely accessible to the community) to see what the scientific community had to say about the topic. Well, it is a huge topic with lots of interesting research, but I didn’t see anything providing the features and benefits of what I had come up with.
I looked at all the creativity tools I could find and did not see anything close there either. So I made a list of all the things I thought I should patent and came up with a few.
I read David Pressman’s “Patent It Yourself” book
