Highlights•Reviews progress in advancing an understanding of design cognition and
metacognition.•Identifies consistent evidence of core cognitive strategies in …

Highlights•Identifies critical sampling challenges in theory driven design studies.•Describes
eight key sampling considerations.•Proposes a structured sample design process.•Illustrates …

Highlights•Reviews a wide range of design creativity case studies.•Identifies related studies
from other disciplines.•Summarises valuable and little-known case descriptions.There are …

Highlights•Interview study with expert designers.•Design fixation is a real problem in
professional practice.•Designers are aware of fixation and take steps to address it.•Fixation …

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 …

The development of immersive virtual reality (IVR) applications for design reviews is a major
trend in the design field. While many different applications have been developed, there is …

Highlights•Represents the dominance of laboratory experiments in design fixation
research.•Reviews concepts of design fixation prior to the first laboratory studies.•Analyses …

Distributed teams are an increasingly common feature of engineering design work. One key
factor in the success of these teams is the development of short-and longer-term shared …

Highlights•We explore the multi-scale nature of design activity.•We propose a framework for
combining understanding of design activity across scales.•We demonstrate the multi-scale …

Highlights•A multi-experiment study of gesture and sketching across design tasks.•A novel
dual-process theory explanation of design representation.•Identification of match between …