Bio-inspired design and the broader field of design-by-analogy have been the basis of
numerous innovative designs throughout history; yet there remains much to be understood …

Highlights•Interview study with expert designers.•Design fixation is a real problem in
professional practice.•Designers are aware of fixation and take steps to address it.•Fixation …

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 …

Biologically inspired engineering design uses analogies to biological systems to develop
solutions for engineering problems. We conducted a study of biologically inspired design in …

Highlights•Survey on the most preferred inspiration sources and methods designers
use.•Student designers prefer to use images over objects, and the latter more than …

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

This paper introduces a new perspective/direction on assessing and encouraging creativity
in concept design for application in engineering design education and industry. This …

We envision that the next generation of knowledge-based CAD systems will be
characterized by four features: they will be based on cognitive accounts of design, and they …

In this paper, we present an initial attempt at systemizing knowledge of biological systems
from an engineering perspective. In particular, we describe an interactive knowledge-based …

Highlights•Think-aloud design exploration task conducted with AI-enabled multi-modal
search tool.•Framework developed to code search behaviors from transcription and …