Design Creativity and Design Thinking for Engineers

Plan: Design Creativity and Design Thinking for Engineers

I: INTRODUCTION

1. Reason for design thinking and creativity among engineers
   1. Innovation as a driving force for design thinking [1, 2,5].
   2. Creativity in Engineering [2]
2. Overview of the approach of the literature review
   1. Design process
   2. Nature of design thinking

• Creativity and engineering

1. Approaches to idea generation

II: LITERATURE REVIEW

1. A) Design Process

1. Express-Test-Cycle [1]
   1. Express stage
   2. Test stage
   3. Cycle stage
2. Creativity in the design process [3, 9]

• Design thinking in design process [8]

1. Design process requires combining various factors and use of empathy for users
2. Testing ideas to obtain insights
3. B) Design Creativity and Thinking
4. Design creativity and thinking nature; Role of environment as an influence of creativity [4, 11]
   • Social intelligence as a factor in synthetic and analytic abilities of an individual’s creativity [11]
   • Knowledge as a factor that influences creativity [11]
   • Cognitive styles influence on creativity [4]

1. ii) Adverse effects of knowledge and cognitive styles on creativity [4]
2. C) Relationship between Creativity and Engineering
3. i) Conceptual phase and creativity relationship [2]
4. ii) Brainstorming

1) Brainstorming as a tool for creativity [2]

2) Brainstorming as an adverse tool for creativity [2]

1. D) Approaches to facilitating and improving creativity
2. i) Concepts of idea generation

• TRIZ, brainstorming, morphological analysis [3], attribute listing [7] and random stimulation [12]
• The section considers morphological analysis, brainstorming and TRIZ

1. ii) Brainstorming in improving creativity [3, 10]

iii) Morphological analysis in creativity improvement [3]

1. iv) TRIZ method

• It was developed by Genrich Altshuller and involves information retrieval from long-term memory [3, 5]
• Tools of TRIZ method
  1. Success of Su-Field and nature of its application and MATCEMIB [5, 6]
  2. MIR in problem reframing to determine barriers to IUR occurrence [6]

III: CONCLUSION

Design creativity is an integral part of engineering. However, creativity is hindered by information retrieval process due to unstructured nature of the human thought. Idea generation methods such as TRIZ would be essential to improving the creativity of engineers.