A Typology of Design Ideas

Inie, Nanna; Dalsgaard, Peter

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“…Those subdisciplines ask questions aimed at understanding the processes of emergence, of conflict and consensus building, and of change or development. For example, design research has aimed to understand how solutions to ill-defined problems evolve (Buchanan, 1992;Inie & Dalsgaard, 2017), often through how designers interact with material objects, like mood boards or drawings. It makes sense to explore such questions from a wave view because it is difficult to know at what point a sketch or drawing "becomes an idea."…”

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“…The subdisciplines of research on brainstorming, creativity, innovation, knowledge creation, design, networks, entrepreneurship, and creative work, all of which aim to study how something new comes to exist in the world, have grown around understanding the role and consequences of ideas and the processes through which ideas arise (e.g., Amabile, 1988;Burt, 2004;Fleming, Mingo, & Chen, 2007;Grimes, 2018;Guilford, 1950;Nonaka, 1994;Sutton & Hargadon, 1996). However, it is not always clear what scholars mean when they use the word "idea" (Inie & Dalsgaard, 2017;Sukhov, Magnusson, & Netz, 2019). Ideas are understood as the outcome of a creative process (Amabile, 1988)-that is, the result of purposeful effort toward generating some form of novelty (Ford, 1996;Grimes, 2018;Long-Lingo & Tepper, 2013).…”

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Unpacking “Ideas” in Creative Work: A Multidisciplinary Review

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Harvey

Rietzschel

2022

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New ideas are central to a wide array of organizational phenomena and research that involve creativity and innovation. Yet, there is little consensus on what the concept of 'ideas' means, with a broad range of creative outputs being conceptualized as ideas. This fragmentation makes it challenging to compare studies and build a cumulative base of knowledge. To integrate different streams of organizational research, we reviewed papers across the creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, design, knowledge creation, and network literatures. We propose a "wave-particle duality" framework of ideas to synthesize two distinct but complementary approaches to understanding and studying ideas. Our framework offers guidance on how to approach the study of ideas, reconciles apparent conflicts in the literature, and suggests opportunities for advancing our understanding of ideas in creative work.

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Unpacking “Ideas” in Creative Work: A Multidisciplinary Review

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Rietzschel

2022

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“…Its ultimate goal is to support the generative ideation [40,67] of a gesture-based interaction design with metaphorical meanings, while achieving both creativity and productivity [17,58,114] in the ideation process. To this end, Metaphoraction aims to assist designers in interactively exploring and comparing possible design idea alternatives as well as constructing and validating plausible design ideas based on the given context.…”

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Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings

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Liu

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ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Previous user experience research emphasizes meaning in interaction design beyond conventional interactive gestures. However, existing exemplars that successfully reify abstract meanings through interactions are usually case-specific, and it is currently unclear how to systematically create or extend meanings for general gesture-based interactions. We present Metaphoraction, a creativity support tool that formulates design ideas for gesture-based interactions to show metaphorical meanings with four interconnected components: gesture , action , object , and meaning . To represent the interaction design ideas with these four components, Metaphoraction links interactive gestures to actions based on the similarity of appearances, movements, and experiences; relates actions to objects by applying the immediate association; bridges objects and meanings by leveraging the metaphor TARGET-SOURCE mappings. We build a dataset containing 588,770 unique design idea candidates through surveying related research and conducting two crowdsourced studies to support meaningful gesture-based interaction design ideation. Five design experts validate that Metaphoraction can effectively support creativity and productivity during the ideation process. The paper concludes by presenting insights into meaningful gesture-based interaction design and discussing potential future uses of the tool.

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“…As Nanna Inie and Peter Dalsgaard have rightly pointed out, research contributions about idea development sometimes give very vague definitions of what an idea is. Their overview demonstrates a large variety of idea definitions ranging from specific solutions to suggestions that entirely reframe the problem in question (Inie and Dalsgaard, 2017). While Inie and Dalsgaard’s overview focuses on the definition of an idea, I focus on how an idea is evaluated and on the relationship between briefs, developers and the gatekeepers that make evaluations.…”

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Gatekeeping within the simplicity regime: evaluative practices in television idea development

Andersen

2019

Media, Culture & Society

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This article investigates the kinds of evaluative practices that are employed when gatekeepers in TV want to maximise creativity. By analysing the evaluative regimes used in TV idea development, the analysis points to how a simplicity regime is used in the observed idea development sessions, with ideas being judged constantly as to whether they are clear and simple enough. Using observations, interviews and briefs as data sources, the article concludes that the desire of gatekeeping editors to maximise creativity can place significant pressure on developers who find it difficult to live up to these desires. In addition, the findings suggest that these developers primarily develop ideas for their immediate gatekeeping editors and that the TV viewers are not considered as equally important in their idea development process.

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A Typology of Design Ideas

Cited by 11 publications

References 63 publications

Unpacking “Ideas” in Creative Work: A Multidisciplinary Review

Unpacking “Ideas” in Creative Work: A Multidisciplinary Review

Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings

Gatekeeping within the simplicity regime: evaluative practices in television idea development

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