Idea Generation Techniques among Creative Professionals

Abstract

The creative process has been a key topic research over the past century, but it wasn't until the last decade that creativity became a hot topic of research in the HCI. It is an important commodity to businesses and individuals alike spawning numerous research studies in business, psychology and design. However, it wasn't until recently that researchers became interested in developing technologies to support creative behavior. This article outlines the role of creativity in design from the designer's perspective, provides a model for the creative process and provides a foundation and direction for future creativity support research by identifying nineteen idea generation techniques utilized by creative professionals.

GANSpiration: Balancing Targeted and Serendipitous Inspiration in User Interface Design with Style-Based Generative Adversarial Network

“…We derived two metrics to measure the ability of inspiration support of a set of UI images. These metrics are inspired by previous work about inspiration in design [15,23] and collectively focused on both targeted and serendipitous inspiration. Both metrics rely on a measure of distance between images, particularly a measure based on a perceptual distance model aimed to approximate human visual perception; this measure is the same as the one used in the clustering task in the representative examples selection component of GANSpiration (see section 3.3).…”

Blockchain for Energy Utilities

“…The first workshop has been attended by a large number of domain experts. We have conducted structured interviews and used several idea generation techniques (Cleverism, 2015;Herring et al, 2009) in order to identify the scenario and its main characteristics, analyse the requirements and expectations of the energy distribution system, and assess the capabilities of available blockchain technologies. We have considered various criteria:…”

VibeRate, An Affective Wearable Tool for Creative Design

“…Designers use different techniques to draw inspiration such as search through magazines and newspapers, as well as physical and digital image repositories [17]. They search for inspiration passively when they do not have a specific design brief in mind or actively when they have to find inspiring examples based on a design brief [18]. Moreover, the role of computers in the design process is multifold and its emergent significance in the creative process [19,20] as a communication medium between designers [21], and as a concept generation medium [21] has already been recognized.…”

“…This is surprising given the role of emotions in creative design, and in particular the value of emotional arousal in the preparation stage [1,2], or for signaling stimuli's importance and self-relevance [3]. In the initial design stage, graphic designers often engage in internet search for relevant visual design exemplars [4]. Within such practices, less attention has focused on designers' awareness and selfregulation of arousal and its impact on the selection of design exemplars.…”