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 …

Biomimicry is captivating. It evokes and attracts the interest of people around the globe, from
various disciplines, ages, and professions. It is made of the right ingredients: colorful …

Biomimetics, as the transfer of strategies from biology to technology, is an emerging
research area and has led to significant concepts over the past decades. The development …

Practitioners of biomimetic design express one consistent need—access to relevant
biological information. This information is most useful when the transferable elements have …

Ten years have passed since the preparation of the inaugural issue of the International
Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (IJDCI). The editors at that time collected the …

Inspiration is a widely recognized phenomenon in everyday life. However, researchers still
know very little about what the process of inspiration entails. This paper investigates …

Understanding the relationships between structures and functions is important for
engineering design in general and for biomimetic design specifically. In nature, different …

Facing current biomimetics impediments, recent studies have supported the integration
within biomimetic teams of a new actor having biological knowledge and know-how. This …

Searching for biological analogies appropriate for design problems is a core process of
biologically inspired design (BID). Through in situ observations of student BIDs, we …

Abstract At Georgia Tech in 2005, we developed an interdisciplinary undergraduate
semester-long course, biologically inspired design (BID), co-taught each year by faculty from …