Interview Study of Professional Designers' Ideation Approaches

Laamanen, Tarja-Kaarina; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita

doi:10.2752/175630614x13915240575988

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“…The study thus expands the realm of design studies that analyses designing and acknowledges the use of tools, practices and sources of inspiration as well as the role of previous experience (see, e.g., Jonson 2005;Petre et al 2006;Heylighen and Neuckermans 2002). These studies have enhanced our understanding of how to support students and practitioners in producing creative ideas (Laamanen and Seitamaa-Hakkarainen 2014). Strong ideas are valuable in design because they have the potential to lead to creative and innovative products (Goldschmidt and Sever 2011).…”

Section: The Materiality Of Idea Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…'Key' refers to an idea's capacity to hold several lines of thought and thereby avoid a premature commitment. A key idea has the potential to constrain the creative process and at the same time inspire new meanings when it evolves into an explorative process (Laamanen 2016;Darke 1979). Thus, it creates a standpoint from which the task can be framed and tackled.…”

Section: The Materiality Of Idea Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Material-led creative processes in the context of design education

Laamanen

Mäkelä

Seitamaa-Hakkarainen

2023

Art, Design &Amp; Communication in Higher Education

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This article discusses research from the Design Experimentation and Exploration (DEE) course in the higher education context. The DEE course was designed to support MA design students’ understanding of their creativity in an explorative course. The data were drawn from the students’ weekly and final reflections, as well as from the notes by one of the researchers. We were interested in how material-led processes developed through repeated material explorations and experimentation during the DEE course. We found that, in this context, the material process was related to identity building, overcoming challenges in idea development, and conceptual inquiry. The results highlight how materials and making can intertwine with personal goals. They thus provide an example for educators in other contexts to support students in bravely following uncertain processes, letting go, and experimenting freely.

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Section: The Materiality Of Idea Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: The Materiality Of Idea Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material-led creative processes in the context of design education

Laamanen

Mäkelä

Seitamaa-Hakkarainen

2023

Art, Design &Amp; Communication in Higher Education

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“…Participants were asked to document the design process of a recent project largely conducted digitally. Before the workshop they were briefed to re-familiarize themselves with this project simply to prepare themselves to share this in an unfamiliar environment and with a new audience (Laamanen & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, 2014). No information was given about what was coming, including the focus on multisensorial research, to minimize risk of "participant response bias" (Dell et al, 2012(Dell et al, , p. 1321, where participants who are over-informed become disposed to confirm a researcher's hypothesis.…”

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Woven Cultural Probes as Enablers for Multisensorial Design and Collaborative Practices

Matz,

Ferrarello

2023

Blucher Design Proceedings

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The importance of addressing and activating some or all human senses while engaging with digital products has been established: designers offer haptic feedback in digital games, implement aural ways of enabling visually impaired users to navigate a website or interactions with products or services in varying light or colour settings. There is nonetheless little research yet as to how designers of products and services working mainly digitally -and not generally exposed to multisensorial engagement in their work -might be motivated to bring such experience into their work, and what benefits might result therefrom. The presented research aims to help fill this gap by proposing that the engagement of the human senses with woven objects as cultural probes can stimulate new, collaborative ways of experiencing, thinking, and creating in the research and design processes of designers who mainly work in digital environments, e.g., service or interaction designers.

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“…Dalsgaard, Halskov, and Nielsen (2008) have proposed maps for design reflection, aimed primarily at design researchers. Empirical studies of ideation among designers have emphasized the importance of analog tools (Laamanen and Seitamaa-Hakkarainen 2014;Inie and Dalsgaard 2017). Others have explored ways to integrate analog ideation tools with digital or hybrid systems (Dorta, Pérez, and Lesage 2008;Lundqvist et al 2018).…”

Section: Co-design Tools For Ideationmentioning

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Co-designing a co-design tool to strengthen ideation in digital experience design at museums

2020

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Co-designing a co-design tool to strengthen ideation in digital experience design at museumsThis article presents and discusses a paper-based co-design tool that was developed in order to strengthen ideation in digital experience design processes at museums. The tool, called the ASAP Map, was co-designed as part of an action research project with 10 museums from EU and the USA. The museum partners used the tool in their home institutions and the article focuses on their feedback and the following iterations of the tool through ongoing feedback loops. Concludingly, the usefulness and applicability of the tool is discussed, also touching on the relevance of this study for the broader co-design field.

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Interview Study of Professional Designers' Ideation Approaches

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Material-led creative processes in the context of design education

Material-led creative processes in the context of design education

Woven Cultural Probes as Enablers for Multisensorial Design and Collaborative Practices

Co-designing a co-design tool to strengthen ideation in digital experience design at museums

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