Design fixation is a phenomenon with important significance to many fields of design due to
the potential negative impacts it may have in design outcomes, especially during the …

Additive manufacturing (AM) continues to play an important role in product development.
Often, AM is integrated into later stages of the design process for products during detailed …

The ideation process has a significant impact on the initial concept generation and final
product creativity of the design. Visual stimuli play an important role in the process of …

Design inspired by nature has been known as biomimicry or biomimetic design that is
believed to transform human technologies into a sustainable status through translation of …

The dynamic development of service offshoring industry can lately be observed in Central
and Eastern Europe, aligned with the global corporate hunt for service improvement and …

This paper reports the results of a study of engineering students' approaches to an open-
ended design problem. To carry out this, sketches and interviews were collected from 9 …

Design ideation is a critical early step in any design process and especially challenging for
novice designers. This paper introduces the “Systematic Brainstorming Ideation (SBI)” …

Design ideation is a core stage in the design process that begins with a design brief and
results in a range of design concepts from which solutions can be selected. The success of …

Biologically inspired design (BID) has gained attention in undergraduate and graduate
engineering programs throughout the United States, and more post-secondary institutions …

Analogical thinking is valuable to creative design as it assists generation of new knowledge
by mapping analogically from source domain to target domain. This study endeavours to …