The process of designing artifacts is a creative activity. It is proposed that, at the cognitive
level, one key to understanding design creativity is to understand the array of symbol …

All design is influenced by previous exposure to ideas in different formats and in different
levels of abstraction. This paper introduces refined methods to represent and analyze the …

The study investigates the relation between social media use and employee creativity by
adopting a knowledge management (KM) approach in order to consider the influence of …

The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design,
drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology. This book presents …

The paper explores what exactly it is that users participate in when being involved in
participatory design (PD), relating this discussion to the CSCW perspective on collaborative …

In today's digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images,
hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even 'new'literacies, we know relatively little about …

There is probably as much research on divergent thinking (DT) as any other single topic in
creative studies. That research has been produced over more than six decades, although of …

The goal of many blue-sky idea generation techniques is to generate a large quantity of
ideas with the hope of obtaining a few outstanding, creative ideas that are worth pursuing …

The design studio has been, and will probably continue to be, the cornerstone of design
education. Its major feature is the one-on-one desk critique (crit), in which student and …

Understanding how designers think is core to advancing design methods, tools, and
outcomes. Engineering researchers have effectively turned to cognitive science approaches …