Highlights•Brief history of card decks as design tools.•Comprehensive survey and analysis
of 155 card-based design tools.•Classification of the tools into six categories, eg human …

The concept of “creativity” as a desirable attribute within education is long-standing. The
fields of education and creativity have developed, and periodically intersected with …

Creative problem solving (CPS) requires solutions to be useful and original. Typically, its
operations span problem finding, idea generation, and critical evaluation. The benefits of …

BACKGROUND Innovation in design depends on successful concept generation. The
ideation stage of design is intended to produce multiple, varied concepts from which to …

Digitalization presents companies with abundant opportunities, ie, action possibilities
leading to new products, services, and business models. Specifically, digital opportunities …

Highlights•1300+ crowd workers provided written design solutions to problems from the
literature.•Crowd responses were text-mined to extract near vs. far inspirational stimuli.•The …

Highlights•3457 concepts created by industrial and engineering designers are combined
across four studies.•Observations go beyond products to consider multiple concepts …

There are many examples of cards used to assist or provide structure to the design process,
yet there has not been a thorough articulation of the strengths and weaknesses of the …

Concept generation techniques can help to support designers in generating multiple ideas
during design tasks. However, differences in the ways these techniques guide idea …

The research presented in this paper explores how engineering students cognitively
manage concept generation and measures the effects of additional dimensions of …