Creativity from constraints in engineering design: Lessons learned at Coloplast

B Onarheim - Journal of Engineering Design, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the role of constraints in limiting and enhancing creativity in
engineering design. Based on a review of literature relating constraints to creativity, the …

Decisive constraints as a creative resource in interaction design

M Mose Biskjaer, K Halskov - Digital Creativity, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the observation that highly limiting, creative decisions of voluntary self-
binding that radically prune the design solution space may in fact fuel and accelerate the …

A typology of design ideas

N Inie, P Dalsgaard - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Design ideas are commonly used as an indicator of success of design methods and
processes. Yet it is very rarely defined what precisely constitutes" an idea", and how such an …

How interaction designers use tools to capture, manage, and collaborate on ideas

N Inie, P Dalsgaard - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present an in-depth survey of how interaction designers use tools to
capture, manage and collaborate on ideas. We observe that designers report very unique …

[PDF][PDF] Opening and constraining: constraints and their role in creative processes

B Onarheim, S Wiltschnig - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - innovationenglish.sites.ku.dk
Requirements and constraints are important notions in framing the problem space for design
processes. Linear models of creativity have difficulties in accounting for the double influence …

Creativity and Ethnography: An Expansive Proposal for'in the Wild'Research of Ideas in Practice in Design Studios

M Nouwens - Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A growing number of scholars are exploring ideas 'in the wild'and across different timescales
through qualitative research, and especially ethnography. Previous controlled and lab …

The creative assessment of rich ideas

R Sosa, A Dong - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
This paper addresses a new dimension in the evaluation of creative ideas. This is based on
the observation that some ideas seem to trigger or lead to more ideas than other ideas. We …

How are design ideas studied over time?

M Mose Biskjaer, J Frich, K Halskov, M Nouwens… - 2024 - dl.designresearchsociety.org
This paper provides the first systematic overview of how existing research has studied the
temporal aspects of design ideas. Reviewing a corpus of research literature on design …

Designing idea management tools: Three challenges

N Inie, P Dalsgaard, S Dow - 2018 - dl.designresearchsociety.org
Designers have a broad range of digital and analoge idea management tools at their
disposal. We know that designers have individual preferences for different tools, but we …

How can Computers Support, Enrich, and Transform Collaborative Creativity?

P Dalsgaard, N Inie, NB Hansen - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The aim of the workshop is to examine and discuss how computers can support, enrich, and
transform collaborative creative processes. By exploring and combining methodological …