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A NEW FRAMEWORK OF STUDYING THE COGNITIVE MODEL OF CREATIVE DESIGN
Sun, Ganyun; Yao, Shengji // 2011
This paper proposes a new framework of studying the cognitive model of creative design. In this paper, first the general cognitive process of creativity is reviewed, and then current studies of the ...
A Novel Softer and More Creative Approach for Materials Selection while Incorporating Emotional Aspects
Koohgilani, Mehran; Khan, Zulfiqar; Parkinson, Brian // 2011
The concept of material selection and its importance has widely been investigated and its significance in the proper design and technology has also well proven. It is also clear that to fully ...
A PROCESS OF CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING DESIGN FOR NEW PATENTABLE PRODUCTS
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
The conceptual design phase is a few-structured phase, and it is especially true for to create a new product that can be patented. In this paper is proposed a procedure to do a conceptual design ...
A Service Approach to Course Development
Watt, Cameron; Ely, Philip; Chapman, Damian // 2011
Like many other organizations in both the private and public sectors Higher Education (HE) Institutions are facing challenging and traumatic times as the UK becomes further and mired in the worst ...
A STRUCTURE FOR REPRESENTING PROBLEM FORMULATION IN DESIGN
Dinar, Mahmoud; Shah, Jami J.; Langley, Pat; Hunt, Glen R.; Campana, Ellen // 2011
Much study has been done on the process of design and problem formulation is believed to play a major role in a creative design of high quality. Yet, it has gained less attention. We propose a ...
A Workshop Supporting Creativity in Distributed Design Education
Grierson, Hilary; Hernandez,Jose // 2011
The practice of distributed design is gradually being adopted by leading organisations which viw this approach to the new product development (NPD) process as an opportunity to achieve competitive ...
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF A COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN SYNTHESIS METHOD
Bolognini, Francesca; Shea, Kristina; Seshia, Ashwin // 2011
From modelling to manufacturing, computers have increasingly become partners in the design process, helping automate many phases once carried out by hand. In the creative phase, computational ...
Aesthetic, Structural and Functional Transparency in Design
Thomsen, Bente Dahl; Madsen, Klaus // 2011
Aesthetic, structural and functional transparency have proven to be highly suitable triggers in creative product development, where the aim is to achieve clear articulation of the promotional values. ...
ANALYSING THE USE OF FOUR CREATIVITY TOOLS IN A CONSTRAINED DESIGN SITUATION
Snider, Chris; Dekoninck, Elies; Yue, Huang; Howard, Thomas James // 2011
This paper investigates creativity tools and their use within highly constrained design tasks. Previously, a coding scheme was developed to classify design changes as ‘Creative Modes of Change’. The ...
AROUND YOU: HOW DESIGNERS GET INSPIRED
Gonçalves, Milene Guerreiro; Cardoso, Carlos; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
Searching for sources for inspiration during the design process is a widespread activity and it is considered as a crucial step for most designers, independent of the degree of expertise. However, ...
Assessing creativity: proposition
Askland, Hedda Haugen; Ostwald, Michael J; Williams, Anthony // 2011
The assessment of creative works is one of the most contentious issues facing contemporary design educators. This problem was first recognised by Donald Schön (1985, 1987) in his early work of ...
ASSESSING QUALITY OF IDEAS IN CONCEPTUAL MECHANICAL DESIGN
Lewis, William P; Field, Bruce W; Weir, John G // 2011
A recurring theme in engineering design is the need to upgrade the performance of existing systems and products as potential defects overlooked in the original design come to light during operation ...
ASSOCIATIVE THINKING AS A DESIGN STRATEGY AND ITS RELATION TO CREATIVITY
Casakin, Hernan // 2011
Associative thinking can help designers to reflect over a problem situation by focusing on unrelated perspectives. During this process, a mapping of high order relations can be established between a ...
Boost Business by Design
Lockwood, Joseph Benjamin; McAra-McWilliam, Irene; Reid, Iain // 2011
‘Creating Cultures of Innovation’ is a unique project that works with Scottish Industry to embed creativity as a collective skill within organisations. Supported by the Scottish Funding Council and ...
Business-Design Laboratory: a Strategy for Innovation
Betancourt, Maria Clara; Mejía Puig, Luis Alfonso // 2011
The contribution of industrial design schools to the development of innovative products is well known around the industrialized world. In Latin American countries like Colombia, industrial design is ...
Can a Virtual Design Environment Enhance Group Creativity and the Use of Stimuli?
Elias, E. W. A.; Chamakiotis, P.; Howard, T. J.; Dekoninck, E. A.; Culley, S. J. // 2011
It is a common perception that creativity for design is best performed in a collaborative, group environment.Group idea generation and brainstorm sessions are of widespread practice across ...
Changing Mindsets, Improving Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Education
Berglund, Anders; Klasén, Ida; Hansson, Mats; Grimheden, Martin // 2011
Universities need to reconfigure and rethink existing engineering beliefs in order to keep promoting students that can target and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities. This put pressure on ...
CHARACTERIZING REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN DESIGN – WHAT ABOUT THOSE IDEAS YOU GET IN THE SHOWER?
Currano, Rebecca M.; Steinert, Martin; Leifer, Larry J. // 2011
Innovation is in part driven by creative ideation, particularly in the fuzzy front-end of the design process, which has been described and studied as a process of reflection-in-action [1]. We ...
COLLABORATIVE IDEA GENERATION USING DESIGN HEURISTICS
Yilmaz, Seda; Christian, James L.; Daly, Shanna R.; Seifert, Colleen M.; Gonzalez, Richard // 2011
Creative strategies play a central role in successful concept generation; however, few studies have documented the application of creative strategies in engineering design. From protocol studies of ...
Commercivity
Childs, Peter; Fountain, Rod // 2011
Creativity can be defined as the ability to imagine or invent something new of value. In the engineering domain, for example, in common with many workplace and social experiences, creativity is both ...
CONDUCTING PRELIMINARY DESIGN AROUND AN INTERACTIVE TABLETOP
Kendira, Atman; Gidel, Thierry; Jones, Alistair; Lenne, Dominique; Barthčs, Jean-Paul; Moulin, Claude // 2011
Our work lies at the intersection of preliminary design and tabletop groupware. We have constructed our own prototype, named the TATIN table, to begin developing applications for design teams. During ...
Creating Innovation: Stifling Education
Crisp, Alan Roy // 2011
Business, commerce and industry are extolled to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial, education, particularly HE is now drawn into the arena, but in what sense and for why? One questions at ...
Creating Inspiration in Design Education
Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2011
To become a designer is to develop oneself as a creative person: an authentic personality with a strong drive to explore new paths and to create new possibilities. This development needs to be ...
Creating Participatory Design Tools: A Didactic Experience
Canina, Marita; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2011
The aim of this paper is to describe the didactic experimentation conducted on the involvement of the user in the design process at the Politecnico of Milan during the Final Synthesis Design Studio ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.