The prevailing concern for rationality in design processes has tended to overshadow the
intuitive aspects of design that are essential for exploring possibilities and for developing …

This paper presents a constructivist framework for design thinking based on the recognition
that there are different kinds of generative propositions. Five different “What if…?” questions …

Artificial Intelligence is playing an ever-increasing role in our lives, but what impacts might it
have on the design professions? Will it introduce a new style? Or will it just help to improve …

There is a difference between being a designer and thinking as a designer. The fact that
someone designs things does not mean that they are doing it well, and simply recognizing a …

Sources of inspiration play an important role in the design process, as triggers for idea
generation and as anchors for structuring designers' mental representations of designs …

Abstract Design is the human conception and planning of virtually everything in the world.
All man-made design has as its fundamental essence that everything is driven by certain …

The work of architecture is believed to depend on the governing thought in the process of
architectural designing. This thought can be analyzed, developed, experienced, and …

In order to satisfy the new challenges of designing-in respect to sustainability, nature,
economics, politics as well as social-cultural concern-it is necessary to establish more …

Design can be explained from two perspectives. One is from the action point of view that
means to do something deliberately; the second can be seen as a product created …

A simplistic and seriously misleading myth about creative thinking is that creative processes
are exclusive alternatives to systematic processes. In fact, breakthrough thinking is almost …