Serendipity–the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries–plays a major role in
the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the …

About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

The Internet is key to art instruction in our ever-changing society. Whether an art teacher is
interested in teaching an unfamiliar visual art process or a classroom teacher wants to …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Several organizations have developed ongoing crowdsourcing communities that repeatedly
collect ideas for new products and services from a large, dispersed “crowd” of nonexperts …

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 …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

This article provides a conceptual underpinning for the study of bricolage in organizations.
Based on a review of Claude Lévi-Strauss's original writing, we propose that bricolage …

The long‐term scientific goal toward which evolutionary psychologists are working is the
mapping of the universal human nature. Evolutionary psychology provokes so much …

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 …