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

Highlights•Design fixation affects a broad range of design practices.•Fixation can be related
to many other concepts from other disciplines.•The relationship between fixation and …

Highlights•We performed a methodological review of studies into inspiration and
fixation.•We found 14 variables that have been systematically manipulated in the …

Many studies of design fixation ask designers to work in controlled laboratory or classroom
environments, but innovative design work frequently occurs in dynamic, social …

Abstract Design experiments are claimed to be a core means of inquiry in the research
tradition of research-through-design. However, it is rarely articulated how the experiments …

Over the last 10 years we have seen a growing number of researchers integrating design
experiments in their research inquiries. Initially, this work borrowed heavily from neighboring …

Abstract Design research brings together influences from the whole gamut of social,
psychological, and more technical sciences to create a tradition of empirical study stretching …

Highlights•Reviews a wide range of design creativity case studies.•Identifies related studies
from other disciplines.•Summarises valuable and little-known case descriptions.There are …

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Research through design has established itself as a maturing research discipline with a
proliferation of conferences and a growing list of publications dealing with foundational …