Understanding the Effects of Cognition in Creative Decision Making: A Creativity Model for Enhancing the Design Studio Process

Abstract

The essential components of creativity-persons, processes and products-were investigated inside a creative environment by deeply focusing on the cognitive stages of the creative decision making process.

Hidden Dimensions of Creativity Elements in Design Process

“…In this study, however, the product was assessed mainly in two aspects while using the rating scales developed by Hasirci and Demirkan (2007). The first aspect was related to the characteristics of a creative product.…”

“…In order to achieve this, a set of observation sheets and rating scales that were developed by Hasirci & Demirkan (2007) are used as the preliminary assessment tools. In Hasirci and Demirkan's (2003) study, there were 15 participants who were selected by random sampling among 46 third year design students.…”

“…Each item was defined by three to seventeen particular behavioral characteristics. These behavioral characteristics that made up each of these items were derived from previous research and literature and set up as oppositional phrases (Hasirci & Demirkan, 2007). The process observation sheet consisted of originality, completion, selfcourage, sensitivity, negativity, identification, and movement items.…”

“…The preliminary product rating scales consisted of the individual assessment of the items of product creativity, design elements, unifying principles and spatial qualities (Hasirci & Demirkan, 2007).…”

Design Thinking: A Model Development Based On Archived Documents

“…At this level, most creative thinking emerges and sketching serves as an important tool for designers. Creative leap is recognized as a creative bridge, or bridging concept, between the problem space and the solution space to overcome design problems and constrains during sub-problem and subsolutions process (Cross, 2011;Hasirci and Demirkan, 2007;Alhusban, 2012). Creative leap is considered important because, design problems can be narrowed, design complexity can be reduced, and design constraints can be resolved with creative leap in design process (Stempfle and BadkeSchaub, 2002;Al-Sayed, Dalton, and Holscher, 2010;Hsiao and Chou, 2004).…”