Future Directions for Design Creativity Research

Abstract

This paper commences with a brief overview of where the creativity may lie in the enterprise of designing artifacts. It puts forward the concept that design creativity is not a unitary concept and needs to be treated multi-dimensionally by stating that design creativity may be in multiple locations. The paper then proceeds to present a brief overview of what has been researched and how it is has been researched. It classifies what has been researched under: design processes, cognitive behavior and interactions. This is followed by the articulation of future directions for design creativity research in the areas of: design processes; cognitive behavior; social interaction; cognitive neuroscience; measuring design creativity and test suites of design tasks.