Assessment of Novelty and Quantity Across Design Phases
Year: 2015
Editor: Amaresh Chakrabarti, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai
Author: Ranjan, B.S.C.; Chakrabarti, A.
Institution: 1Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Section: Brief Podium Papers
Page(s): 303-310
ISBN: 978-1-904670-60-5
Abstract
Phase based design approaches are used in industry and many engineering projects for their various advantages, such as ease of management in designing complex products, better monitoring of updates of engineering projects, etc. A common division used in these is as follows: Task Clarification, Conceptual Design, Embodiment Design and Detail Design. A wide body of research is available on design creativity, focusing on its nature in and effects on the two earlier phases of design. Further, much of creativity research is focused on the generation aspects of creativity. However, research rarely focuses on creativity, of the concepts, embodiments and details in a design process, in particular to understand how creativity of the outcomes evolve and progress from one phase to another. The focus of this paper is to apply existing metrics of creativity on case studies of design processes to understand the flow of creativity in a design process from one phase to another.
Keywords: creativity, metric, concept, embodiment