It is increasingly important for researchers and educators to find effective ways to stimulate
students' creativity. In design education, the specificity of design, defined as open-ended …

Highlights•Think-aloud design exploration task conducted with AI-enabled multi-modal
search tool.•Framework developed to code search behaviors from transcription and …

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 …

Highlights•Design fixation affects a broad range of design practices.•Fixation can be related
to many other concepts from other disciplines.•The relationship between fixation and …

Highlights•Survey on the most preferred inspiration sources and methods designers
use.•Student designers prefer to use images over objects, and the latter more than …

Abstract Design fixation refers to designing under the influence of precedents with the
inappropriate reuse of their features. With the aim of better understanding of design fixation …

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 …

Highlights•We combine design process and cognitive views to understand ideation.•We
identify idea creation and idea judgement as two crucial dimensions to define ideas.•We …

Highlights•We address four key challenges to co-evolution: scale, context, direction,
emergence.•We propose a next generation theory in the cognitive co-evolution model.•Our …

This book addresses the development of quantitative tools intended to improve the
understanding of design activities. The motivation of the research was to understand human …