A Typology of Design Ideas

TY - GEN

T1 - A Typology of Design Ideas

AU - Inie, Nanna

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

PY - 2017/6/22

Y1 - 2017/6/22

N2 - Design ideas are commonly used as an indicator of success of design methods and processes. Yet it is very rarely defined what precisely constitutes "an idea", and how such an idea manifests itself to the researcher. This paper presents an examination of design idea definitions based on a thorough study of 75 research contributions. We construct a typology of seven definitions of design ideas. The purpose of the typology is to offer shared definitions and descriptions of design ideas to design and creativity researchers, aiding a higher degree of specificity when studying and analyzing the emergence of ideas in design processes.

AB - Design ideas are commonly used as an indicator of success of design methods and processes. Yet it is very rarely defined what precisely constitutes "an idea", and how such an idea manifests itself to the researcher. This paper presents an examination of design idea definitions based on a thorough study of 75 research contributions. We construct a typology of seven definitions of design ideas. The purpose of the typology is to offer shared definitions and descriptions of design ideas to design and creativity researchers, aiding a higher degree of specificity when studying and analyzing the emergence of ideas in design processes.

KW - Creativity

KW - Design ideas

KW - Design processes

KW - Design theory

KW - Idea definition

KW - Idea generation

KW - Ideation

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M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 393

EP - 406

BT - C and C 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York, NY, USA

ER -