Developing a graphic tool for creative problem solving in design groups

✍ Scribed by Remko van der Lugt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(00)00021-1

✦ Synopsis

F rom the early days on, creativity techniques have been incorporated in design methodology 1 . Creative problem solving (CPS) is the common name for methods that utilize creativity techniques within an organizing framework 2 . These days, creative problem solving meetings are often used in product design, especially in the early phases of design projects.

Creative problem solving meetings assist design groups in exploring the problem space and generating a wide variety of novel ideas, thus obtaining an overview of potential design directions. Such meetings are regarded as useful in product design 3 , but there are vital differences between the ways designers usually work and the ways in which traditional tools for stimulating creativity are set up. In product design, visual expression, especially in the form of sketching, is a key activity in the process of originating new 1 Jones, J C Design Methods: