Citation:
J.E. Kim, C. Bouchard, J.F. Omhover and A. Aoussat, How do Designers Categorize Information in the Generation Phase of the Creative Process? Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Design Conference – Competitive Design, Cranfield University, 30-31 March 2009, pp363
Abstract:
In this paper, firstly we provide a wide range of literature review on designer’s cognitive activity in order to
bridge informative and generative phase in the early stages of design. In the generation phase of the
creative process, designers use various levels of information and execute internal processing. We found that
some of this internal processing (especially in encoding, storage and recall) can be described as information
categorisation. In this respect, we propose a descriptive model of information processing to generate ideas
by integrating a model from cognitive psychology. We conclude by discussing the limitations of current
research and perspectives for further work.