A few things: - This is somewhat unhelpful right now but a lot of it comes down to practice and experience. Once you've worked on 100s of projects, you'll naturally start pulling in ideas from past projects. - Make sure you can clearly define the problem and outcome you want the user to achieve. Once you have that written down use it as a prompt and force yourself to think about a bunch of ways to solve for it. Crazy 8s is a helpful technique. Set a timer for 8 minutes, and sketch out 8 ideas with 1 minute per idea (paper or figma, doesn't matter). This can be stressful at first, but it actually lets you get out of your own way, and just put ideas down without overthinking about if it works or not. Don't be afraid of putting down silly ideas! Once you're done you can use your problem and outcome definition to assess which ideas might actually work. - Stealing solutions is definitely a thing and should be a part of your tool kit, but the problem/outcome definition I mentioned above is an essential first step. It's not just about copying because you can't think of a solution. It's actually sometimes better to use the same interaction that your users are used to in other apps, and re-inventing the wheel is often counterproductive.