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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Design fixation"”.
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Influence of formal techniques and design fixation on idea generation tasks in engineering practice
… by artificially constraining the perceived design options, known as design fixation, when using either the formal or informal techniques? The formal technique used was a modified version of C-Sketch. The results of the experimental groups were compared across four metrics: quantity, variety, …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
Design fixation is a phenomenon experienced by professional designers and engineering design students that stifles creativity and innovation through discouraging ideational productivity, fluency and diversity. During the design idea and concept generation phase of the design process, a reliance on …
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Design and optimization of computationally expensive engineering systems
… our day-to-day lives depend on. In many cases, designers are interested in identifying an optimal design of an engineering system. However, very often, the process of engineering design optimization is complex and involves time-expensive simulations or the need to satisfy not just one, but …
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Methodological investigations into design inspiration and fixation experiments
Designers often look for inspiration in their environment when exploring possible solutions to a given problem. However, many studies have reported that external stimuli may constrain designers’ imagination and limit their exploration to similar solutions, a phenomenon described as design fixation. …
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Exploring design space representations for design creativity research and education
… is. This work investigates how the concept of design spaces is employed in design creativity research and education. To do so, a literature review focussed on the design space concept both within the design discipline and beyond it. This provides a starting point to understand current …
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Distributed thinking across mind and media: creative design in traditional tools and generative design
Creative design is a central driver for innovation success, as design decisions fundamentally shape downstream performance and cost of products. Visual thinking, the iterative reasoning across internal and external visual representations, is the engine for creative design across engineering, …
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Assessing Impacts of Digital Sketching on Concept Generation in Early Stage Design
Digital design tools have become increasingly popular for facilitating designers with different steps of the design process because they can simplify or automate certain components of these steps. Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools have assisted designers with tasks such as modeling and visualizing …