Understanding Creativity Methods in Design

TY - GEN

T1 - Understanding Creativity Methods in Design

AU - Biskjaer, Michael Mose

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

AU - Halskov, Kim

PY - 2017/6/10

Y1 - 2017/6/10

N2 - This paper contributes an analytical framework to improve understanding of the composition of recognized creativity methods used in design. Based on an extensive literature review, our framework synthesizes key concepts from design and particularly creativity research, and is further supported by significant experience with creativity methods in design. We propose that nine concepts are relevant for analyzing creativity methods in design: process structure, materials, tools, combination, metaphor, analogy, framing, divergence, and convergence. To test their relevance as components of an analytical framework, we use these key concepts to analyze three recognized creativity methods that we have often used ourselves: Inspiration Card Workshops, Fictional Inquiry, and Extreme Characters. Our analytical framework expands current categorizations of methods and offers new insight into how creativity methods are composed, how and why they work, and how they potentially may be tweaked or refined for enhanced deployment in design. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).

AB - This paper contributes an analytical framework to improve understanding of the composition of recognized creativity methods used in design. Based on an extensive literature review, our framework synthesizes key concepts from design and particularly creativity research, and is further supported by significant experience with creativity methods in design. We propose that nine concepts are relevant for analyzing creativity methods in design: process structure, materials, tools, combination, metaphor, analogy, framing, divergence, and convergence. To test their relevance as components of an analytical framework, we use these key concepts to analyze three recognized creativity methods that we have often used ourselves: Inspiration Card Workshops, Fictional Inquiry, and Extreme Characters. Our analytical framework expands current categorizations of methods and offers new insight into how creativity methods are composed, how and why they work, and how they potentially may be tweaked or refined for enhanced deployment in design. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).

KW - Creativity

KW - analytical framework

KW - creativity methods

KW - design methods

KW - ideation

KW - Creativity

KW - analytical framework

KW - creativity methods

KW - design methods

KW - ideation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023204095&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3064663.3064692

DO - 10.1145/3064663.3064692

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-4922-2

SP - 839

EP - 851

BT - DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

A2 - Mival, Oli

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

T2 - Designing Interactive Systems 2017

Y2 - 10 June 2017 through 14 June 2017

ER -