The impact of designers' goals on design-by-analogy

Alipour, Leyla; Faizi, Mohsen; Moradi, Asghar Mohammad; Akrami, Gholamreza

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2017.04.001

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Reich (1993) points out that functionality and aesthetic appeal may have conflicts. Alipour et al (2017) indicate that function is a constructive goal for designers, whereas aesthetics is a detrimental goal. In addition, many researchers have argued that functionality is not assessable without usage or consumption, but Hoegg and Alba (2011) and Radford and Bloch (2011) hold the view that consumers often assess functionalities of products from just seeing them (Homburg et al 2015).…”

Section: Aesthetics and Functionality In The Design Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Aesthetics and Functionality In The Design Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2021

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“…There is a small literature of studies investigating how precedents figure in design processes from a controlled, analytical point of view (for example Alipour 2017;Doboli & Umbarker 2014;Senbel 2013). While relevant to the present context, the practice-based nature of the current study, being more centred on framing within a context of naturally occurring language, required a slightly more open approach to analysis.…”

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“…In this paper we focus on the specific mechanism of introducing precedent (Alipour 2017;Doboli and Umbarkar 2014) to show how framing takes place in debates about large-scale infrastructure. This makes the case for debates being considered as design activity, for which framing is viewed as integral (Paton and Dorst 2011).…”

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Designing frames: The use of precedents in parliamentary debate

Umney

Lloyd

2018

Design Studies

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Using the naturally-occurring data of official UK Parliamentary transcripts for the development of a new high speed rail project, this paper takes one characteristic of the design process, the use of precedent, to explore how problems and solutions are framed during discussion. In contrast to accounts of reframing that describe one big insight changing the design process we show how one particular precedent allows a series of attempts at reframing to take place in discussion. We conclude by arguing that precedents enable adiffusionof semi-objective meaning in discussion, similar to a prototype in a more conventional design process. This contrasts with other types of discourse elements, such as storytelling, that function through the subjectiveaccumulationof meaning

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“…The above studies reported the effects of different types (Cai et al, 2010) and different levels of abstraction of analogical stimuli on designers (Casakin, 2004;Alipour, 2017). However, specific, single visual analogical stimuli on the effects of designers have not been reported.…”

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Differences Between Beginning and Advanced Students Using Specific Analogical Stimuli During Design-by-Analogy

Jiang

2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Studies reported the effects of different types and different levels of abstraction of analogical stimuli on designers. However, specific, single visual analogical stimuli on the effects of designers have not been reported. We define this type of stimuli as specific analogical stimuli. We used the extended linkography method to analyze the facilitating and limiting effects of specific analogical stimuli and free association analogical stimuli (nonspecific analogical stimuli) on the students' creativity at different design levels. The results showed that: (1) Advanced students focused on exploring the depth of the design problem while beginning students tended to explore the breadth of the design problem. (2) Nonspecific analogical stimuli enhanced the creativity of beginning students. However, its impact on advanced students is less pronounced. (3) The specific analogical stimuli attract the students into design fixation. Furthermore, it has a more pronounced effect on advanced students. These results illustrate the differences in the effects of specific analogy stimuli on the students at different design levels. It clarifies the use of analogical stimuli in design and the teaching of analogical design methods in design education.

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The impact of designers' goals on design-by-analogy

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

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

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

Designing frames: The use of precedents in parliamentary debate

Differences Between Beginning and Advanced Students Using Specific Analogical Stimuli During Design-by-Analogy

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