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 …

Creativity is one of the most essential skills for success in life in our dynamic, complex world.
For instance, we are currently facing major problems with the COVID-19 pandemic, which …

BACKGROUND Innovation in design depends on successful concept generation. The
ideation stage of design is intended to produce multiple, varied concepts from which to …

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 …

Analogy was studied in real-world engineering design, using the in vivo method.
Analogizing was found to occur frequently, entailing a roughly equal amount of within-and …

Highlights•3457 concepts created by industrial and engineering designers are combined
across four studies.•Observations go beyond products to consider multiple concepts …

Highlights•We explored ideation applying Design-by-Analogy (DbA) in transactional
problems.•First domain-knowledge expert study (n= 73) for a DbA semantic-based ideation …

Heutagogy, or the study of self-determined learning, has been rapidly gaining interest within
the field of education as a response to the market demand for creative and competent …

This chapter aims to further our understanding of the nature and function of analogising and
mental simulation in design through an analysis of the DTRS7 engineering data. Analogies …

This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth
year students and expert architects. Participants took part in an experiment consisting of four …