Physical Prototyping Toolkits Have Limited Effect on Group Ideation in Design

TY - GEN

T1 - Physical Prototyping Toolkits Have Limited Effect on Group Ideation in Design

AU - Frich Pedersen, Jonas

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

N1 - Conference code: 5

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - First introduced more than 15 years ago, toolkits for prototyping are intended to facilitate rapid prototyping. These toolkits are often framed as means to support and speed up the creative process by allowing designers to quickly create and evaluate potential future products. However, little is known about how the introduction of prototyping toolkits influences group-based ideation and selection of ideas in the creative design process. To examine this, we carried out an experiment with 20 participants in 5 groups, in which two groups employed prototyping toolkits. Surprisingly, the introduction of a toolkit did not show any significant effect on participants’ performances in the ideation and selection activities. The lack of effect is discussed in the light of the intended role of the prototyping toolkits.

AB - First introduced more than 15 years ago, toolkits for prototyping are intended to facilitate rapid prototyping. These toolkits are often framed as means to support and speed up the creative process by allowing designers to quickly create and evaluate potential future products. However, little is known about how the introduction of prototyping toolkits influences group-based ideation and selection of ideas in the creative design process. To examine this, we carried out an experiment with 20 participants in 5 groups, in which two groups employed prototyping toolkits. Surprisingly, the introduction of a toolkit did not show any significant effect on participants’ performances in the ideation and selection activities. The lack of effect is discussed in the light of the intended role of the prototyping toolkits.

KW - Creativity

KW - Design process

KW - Prototyping toolkit

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072769378&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-904670-97-1

SP - 47

EP - 53

BT - ICDC 2018 - 5th International Conference on Design Creativity, Conference Proceedings

A2 - Dekoninck, Elies

A2 - Wodehouse, Andrew

A2 - Snider, Chris

A2 - Georgiev, Georgi

A2 - Casciniand, Gaetano

PB - Design Society

T2 - The International Conference on Design Creativity

Y2 - 31 January 2018 through 2 February 2018

ER -