Artificial intelligence (AI) and the automation of creative work have received little attention in
craft education. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring Finnish pre-service craft …

The current vogue for design in management discourses results in abstractions of the design
process that repress the role of aesthetic judgments. This paper offers an explanation as to …

Based on the results of a multiple case study of seven manufacturing firms, a contingency
framework for harnessing fuzziness in the front end of innovation is proposed by delineating …

An affordance perspective highlights how resourceful the ecology is for creative actions of all
sorts; it captures how creativity is grounded in materiality. In contrast to “canonical …

Searching for sources of inspiration is central to creative design; however, we have limited
knowledge of individual inspiration search strategies in response to varying levels of task …

The purpose of this study is to examine the apparel design process by asking how a
designer applies perceived information from visual sources and develops concepts through …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate contemporary practice in product
development for clothing sold by UK fashion retailers, focusing on three essential types of …

Front‐end fuzziness (FEF) within innovation/NPD projects remains unclear and under‐
explored. In this research, FEF is clarified to have three change patterns of dynamic …

Scholars are increasingly recognizing that creativity is grounded in the active sensorimotor
engagement with the environment and materiality. Affordances—recognizable pointers to …

The field of interaction design encompasses a variety of methods for fostering innovation
and creativity. In this paper, we present a selection of such methods that scaffold ideation …