Individual creativity support systems have been developed to facilitate creative work. This
article reviews the various design requirements and approaches proposed for supporting …

Abstract Context: The Design Critique (DC) method is becoming more common in Human–
Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) studies as the need for new …

Searching for relative mobile user interface (UI) design examples can aid interface
designers in gaining inspiration and comparing design alternatives. However, finding such …

Highlights•Survey on the most preferred inspiration sources and methods designers
use.•Student designers prefer to use images over objects, and the latter more than …

The use of examples serves a critical role in creative design practice, but details of this
process remain an enigma. This is problematic for both the understanding of design activity …

Inspiration from design examples plays a crucial role in the creative process of user interface
design. However, current tools and techniques that support inspiration usually only focus on …

Examples are useful for inspiring ideas and facilitating implementation in visualization
design. However, there is little understanding of how visualization designers use examples …

Theories of creative conceptual combination hypothesize that, to generate highly creative
concepts, one should attempt to combine source concepts that are very different from each …

Highlights•Qualitative analysis of a professional design team's idea generation
practices.•Highlight team idea generation practices across five timescales of …

This research aims to understand the significance of biological-analogies in fostering
novelty by comparing biological-analogies with other design methods for idea generation …