Expertise and the use of visual analogy: implications for design education

Casakin, Hernán; Goldschmidt, Gabriela

doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(98)00032-5

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“…Conceptual design has been shown to have the most significant impact on the cost of a product compared to the other phases of design (Römer, Weißhahn, & Hacker, 2001). Existing approaches to idea generation include including Synectics (Gordon, 1961), SCAMPER (Eberle, 1995), ASIT (Horowitz, 1999), Morphological Analysis (Zwicky, 1969), Parameter Analysis (Kroll, 2013), Analogical Thinking (Casakin & Goldschmidt, 1999;Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992), and TRIZ (Altshuller, 1984(Altshuller, , 1997Terninko, Zussman, & Zlotin, 1998). These approaches vary in their focus, specificity, and usability.…”

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Can experienced designers learn from new tools? A case study of idea generation in a professional engineering team

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Daly

Christian

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International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation

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Generating novel ideas is a challenging part of engineering design, especially when the design task has been undertaken for an extended period of time. How can experienced designers develop new ideas for familiar problems? A tool called Design Heuristicsprovides strategies that support engineers in considering more, and more different, concepts during idea generation. Design Heuristics have been shown to help novice engineers create a set of more diverse and creative candidate concepts. In this case study, we extended this approach to a group of professional engineers who had worked on a specific product line for many years. In a workshop format, a small group of engineers worked with the heuristics in two separate sessions and generated ideas collaboratively. Video recordings were analyzed to reveal how the heuristics were used to stimulate new designs for their product line. We found that Design Heuristics bring order in ideas and elaboration on ideas, perhaps through coordinating effort on idea evaluation, increasing capacity to improve the ideas of others, and facilitating interaction between participants. This case study shows using Design Heuristics can assist even expert engineers to increase the variety of concepts generated, resulting in a larger set of ideas to consider. Keywords engineering design, idea generation, teamwork in design Disciplines Industrial and Product Design Comments This is a manuscript of an article from Can experienced designers learn from new tools? A case study of idea generation within a professional engineering teamGenerating novel ideas is a challenging part of engineering design, especially when the design task has been undertaken for an extended period of time. How can experienced designers develop new ideas for familiar problems? A tool called Design Heuristics provides strategies that support engineers in considering more, and more different, concepts during idea generation. Design Heuristics are strategies for idea generation based on empirical analyses of idea generation from professional and student engineers and industrial designers working on a wide variety of product designs. Design Heuristics have been shown to help novice engineers create a set of more diverse and creative candidate concepts. In this case study, we extended this approach to a group of professional engineers who had worked on a specific product line for many years. In a workshop format, a small group of engineers worked with the heuristics in two separate sessions, and generated ideas collaboratively. Video recordings were analyzed to reveal how the heuristics were used to stimulate new designs for their product line. This case study shows using Design Heuristics can assist even expert engineers to increase the variety of concepts generated, resulting in a larger set of ideas to consider.

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Can experienced designers learn from new tools? A case study of idea generation in a professional engineering team

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Daly

Christian

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International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation

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“…Generally ill-defined problems are given which may have undefined goal and several alternative correct solutions are possible, [2]. Abstract problems help students to organize their thoughts and their design ideas.…”

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Basic design in architectural education in Turkey

Makaklı

Özker

2016

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract.Creative activity is one of the most significant parts of architectural education. In the architectural curriculum organisation 'design studio' is the unique and preeminent subject. Freshman students encounter 'design' first in basic design course, before they know what designing incorporates. The Basic Design is the starting point of initiating creativity in architecture education. It helps each student to understand architecture as a creative and innovative practice in the first year of education. This study analyzes the characteristics of basic design course, the topics of the course contents and its significance in the architectural curriculum in Turkey as well.

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“…But in the design, the visual measurement is used to solve the projects problems as being considered a strong strategy to solve the problems [11]. It's a powerful way of innovation itself, but involves the risk of passive design [12].…”

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The Indistinct Role of Community between Architect Decisions and Design Process Stages, Case Study - Egypt

2016

2nd International Conference on Architecture, Structure and Civil Engineering (ICASCE-16) March 26-27, 2016 London (UK)

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Expertise and the use of visual analogy: implications for design education

Cited by 268 publications

References 22 publications

Can experienced designers learn from new tools? A case study of idea generation in a professional engineering team

Can experienced designers learn from new tools? A case study of idea generation in a professional engineering team

Basic design in architectural education in Turkey

The Indistinct Role of Community between Architect Decisions and Design Process Stages, Case Study - Egypt

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