In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies,
agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This …

Highlights•Reviews progress in advancing an understanding of design cognition and
metacognition.•Identifies consistent evidence of core cognitive strategies in …

Highlights•Identifies critical sampling challenges in theory driven design studies.•Describes
eight key sampling considerations.•Proposes a structured sample design process.•Illustrates …

'Design cognition'refers to the mental processes and representations involved in designing,
and has been a significant area of interest since the emergence of design research in the …

Increasing the range of methods available for researching design cognition provides new
opportunities for studying the phenomena of interest. Here we propose an approach for …

Large language models (LLMs) are now being used in a wide variety of contexts, including
as creativity support tools (CSTs) intended to help their users come up with new ideas. But …

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in various
generative design tasks, from topology optimization to material design, and shape …

In this perspective article, I explain why agricultural sciences are facing what I consider to be
design issues, and why I strongly believe that agricultural sciences would benefit from more …

Highlights•Represents the dominance of laboratory experiments in design fixation
research.•Reviews concepts of design fixation prior to the first laboratory studies.•Analyses …

Highlights•Presents three new cases, each illustrated with prototype sequences.•Creative
blocks and breakthroughs are associated with earlier progress.•Multiple design spaces are …