An Exploration of the Relations between Functionality, Aesthetics and Creativity in Design

Han, Jiarui; Forbes, Hannah; Schaefer, Dirk

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.29

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“…Furthermore, few studies have investigated how the core dimensions of creativity, such as novelty and usefulness, relate to aesthetics and functionality, which could provide further insights. This study is an extension and new exploration of prior research conducted by Han et al (2019a). It involves a more comprehensive literature review, a new case study with more types of samples, a larger sample size and more expert evaluators aiming to yield more general findings.…”

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An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design

2021

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Creativity is considered to have a significant impact on the design process and its outcomes, while aesthetics and functionality are considered key characteristics of products. A relationship between creativity, aesthetics and functionality is, therefore, often assumed, however, researchers view the relations between creativity, functionality and aesthetics differently. In this paper, the authors present first evidence that novelty, usefulness and surprise are the core elements of design creativity. The aim of this research is the exploration of the relations between functionality, aesthetics, novelty, usefulness, surprise, and overall creativity, by means of an experimental case study involving design experts evaluating forty-five design samples. Statistical analysis has been conducted to investigate and understand these relations. The results obtained indicate that aesthetics has a significant positive relationship with creativity but that functionality does not have a statistically significant relationship with creativity in general. Further analysis confirms that design creativity is strongly and positively related to novelty and surprise, but not significantly related to usefulness. In addition, high correlation coefficient values have revealed that creativity, novelty and surprise are perceived as the same dimension as are functionality and usefulness. This paper may be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and educators in the broader realm of design, including industrial design, creativity in design, engineering design, design innovation, product design and new product development. It provides new insights into how creativity is perceived within the field and offers a new point of view on creativity and its dimensions for the community to meditate and to debate.

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“…Those pillars are Novelty, Value and Surprise (Maher and Fisher, 2012). Similarly, Han et al (2019) claimed that novelty, usefulness, and surprise are core elements for design creativity. However, further contributions have stated that even though novelty and surprise are two distinct things, they are still related to one another, where, for example, a surprising product is novel, but a novel product may not always be surprising (Maher et al, 2013).…”

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Testing the Usability of Guidelines for the Design of Surprising Products

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Becattini

2022

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The paper introduces guidelines to support designers to generate ideas for the development of surprising products. The guidelines are structured coherently with the concept of sensory incongruity and the Function-Behaviour-Structure framework to create a mismatch between previously conceived expectations and product features. The usability of the interactive presentation is checked with an experiment that involved more than 30 subjects with a background in product design (mechanical engineers and industrial designers), which demonstrated to be capable of generating ideas using the same.

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“…Generating an idea is fundamental to generating a concept and the generation of ideas has been considered to be the essence of innovation (Sarkar and Chakrabarti, 2011;Cash and Štorga, 2015). However, generating ideas, especially creative ones that are novel, useful and surprising (Han et al, 2019), is challenging. Idea generation methods and tools are often used to support designers in ideation fluency, flexibility and originality (Childs, 2018).…”

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A Data-Driven Approach for Creative Concept Generation and Evaluation

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Forbes

Shi

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Conceptual design, as an early phase of the design process, is known to have the highest impact on determining the innovation level of design results. Although many tools exist to support designers in conceptual design, additional knowledge, especially knowledge related to emerging technologies, is still often needed. In this paper the authors aim to propose a data-driven creative concept generation and evaluation approach to support designers in incorporating emerging technologies in the new product early development stage. The approach is demonstrated by means of an illustrated example.

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An Exploration of the Relations between Functionality, Aesthetics and Creativity in Design

Cited by 16 publications

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An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design

An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design

Testing the Usability of Guidelines for the Design of Surprising Products

A Data-Driven Approach for Creative Concept Generation and Evaluation

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