Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers.

A Comparison of Cognitive Heuristics Use between Engineers and Industrial Designers

The present study focuses on an exploration and identification of design heuristics used in the ideation process in both industrial designers and engineering designers. Design heuristics are cognitive strategies that help the designer generate novel design concepts. These cognitive heuristics may differ based on the design problem, the context defined, and designers’ preferences. In a think-alo...

The Creative Mind

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Understanding the Creative Mind

We review Margaret Boden's book The Creative Mind, an excellent survey and synthesis of current computational theories of creativity. Boden's stated goal is to explain how creativity (as a psychological phenomenon) is possible, where an explanation of possibility is taken to be a computational process. Although Boden does not deliver a full-edged computational explanation and leaves most detail...

HCI Designers and Engineers: It is possible to work together?

This position paper states the point of view of the authors about the problems and some possible solutions about integrating and making effective the work of Software Engineers and HCI professionals. These two groups of people use quite different jargon and tools to build User Interfaces. Try to bridging the gap and improve the communication between these two groups is essential to obtain bette...

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