Incorporating thevoice of the consumer'in early stages of the new product development
process has been identified as a critical success factor for new product development. Yet …

Abstract Design-by-analogy (DbA) is a design methodology wherein new solutions,
opportunities, or designs are generated in a target domain based on inspiration drawn from …

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 …

Research in cognitive psychology and in design thinking has shown that the generation of
inner representations in imagery and external representations via sketching are instrumental …

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

A design is said to be as successful as the leading idea that drives it is. Mature designers
make frequent use of 'stock ideas' accumulated over time and stored in memory and …

Tests of divergent thinking represent the most commonly used assessment of creative
potential. Typically they are scored for total ideational output (fluency), ideational originality …

Where do creative design ideas come from? Cognitive scientists have discovered that
people inevitably build new ideas from their prior knowledge and experiences (Marsh et al …

Highlights•Think-aloud design exploration task conducted with AI-enabled multi-modal
search tool.•Framework developed to code search behaviors from transcription and …

Analogy is a core cognition process used to produce inferences as well as new ideas using
previous knowledge and experience. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of domain …