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Basic Considerations in Design
Published in Yogesh Jaluria, Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, 2019
It is not easy to teach someone how to be creative and innovative. In most cases, creativity is a natural talent and some people tend to be more original than others. There are no set rules that one might follow to become creative. However, experience with current technology and knowledge of systems being used for applications similar to the one under consideration are a big help in the search for a suitable conceptual design. In addition, it is necessary to provide an environment that is open to new ideas. Creative problem solving requires imaginative thinking, persistence, acceptance of all ideas from different sources, and constructive criticism. Several such methods that may help to develop creative thinking are discussed by Alger and Hays (1964) and by Lumsdaine and Lumsdaine (1995). Techniques such as brainstorming, where a group of people collectively try to generate a variety of ideas to solve a given problem, design contests, and awards to employees with the best ideas also promote the generation of innovative solutions. Many impressive designs, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., have arisen from design competitions.
Innovative Executive Leadership
Published in H. James Harrington, Frank Voehl, Total Innovative Management Excellence (TIME), 2020
Creative Problem Solving: a body of methodologies for solving often ill-defined problems or to help you search for possibilities and opportunities not readily apparent. It also includes methods to help you evolve your understanding of what the problem might be and what possible solutions may exist. Contrast this with linear problem solving consisting of rigid methodologies seeking the “correct” answer as practiced by most executives and their staffs today.
Introduction
Published in James P. Kohn, The Ergonomic Casebook, 2020
James Kohn, Celeste Winterberger
Creative problem solving is the foundation for your organization’s ergonomic system. What is creative problem solving? Creative problem-solving is concerned with applying information, tools, techniques, or methods in a new or different way. By looking at an ergonomic problem from a new or different perspective, creative solutions will evolve.
Exploring Students’ Continuance Intention Toward Digital Visual Collaborative Learning Technology in Design Thinking
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Yi-Lin Elim Liu, Tseng-Pin Lee, Yueh-Min Huang
The rapid advance of technology has led to a new generation that faces more complex and rapidly evolving challenges. As a result, creative problem-solving is considered an essential thinking skill for students in twenty-first-century higher education (Razzouk & Shute, 2012). Despite the common belief that creativity is innate, research shows that creative problem-solving skills can be developed through design thinking (DT) (Royalty et al., 2019). DT refers to a series of creative processes, which includes problem definition, information acquisition, knowledge analysis, and solution prototyping in a designer’s way of thinking and action (Brown & Katz, 2011; Cross, 2011; Lawson, 2006). The DT approach engages students to immerse themselves into the problem’s context, seek insight, generate corresponding ideas, evaluate multiple solutions, and use a structured process to promote design success. The utility of DT has been emphasized in a wide range of areas in higher education (McLaughlin et al., 2022; Wilkerson & Trellevik, 2021).
Design spaces and EEG frequency band power in constrained and open design
Published in International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 2022
Sónia Vieira, Mathias Benedek, John Gero, Shumin Li, Gaetano Cascini
While general cognition requires the ability to adjust modes of thought to match the demands of each situation (Gabora, 2002), creative cognition encompasses special combinations and patterns of the same cognitive processes seen in other non-creative endeavors (Finke et al., 1992). Research in each area has followed different paths. Although creativity and design are drivers of innovation and social and cultural progress, crucial for economic sustainability and well-being, they are not identical. Design, in its broad definition, is the generation of a plan for a change, and as such, it is high-level cognition involving multimodal behavior (Park & Alderman, 2018). Creativity is defined as the ability to generate novel and effective ideas (Runco & Jaeger, 2012), or artifacts that are new, surprising, and valuable (Boden, 2004). Creative thinking is traditionally associated with conceptual expansion implying a creative change in the approach to the request (Abraham, 2019; Abraham et al., 2012). The creative problem-solving process involves the integration of creativity and intelligence to tackle requests that ask for appropriate solutions (Benedek et al., 2018; Jaarsveld et al., 2015).
Towards enterprising design: a creativity framework supporting the fluency, flexibility and flow of student fashion designers
Published in International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 2020
A.J.C. (Lee) de Wet, T.J. Tselepis
The three cognitive skills discussed for creative problem solving in this paper are: fluency, flexibility and flow (Kim, Kim, & Park, 2008). These cognitive skills are applied during problems solving and may enable an individual to achieve a goal (Jauk, Benedek, & Neubauer, 2014). Each of the three skills are discussed with reference to how they contribute to goal attainment within a creative design process in order to solve design problems.