Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers
By Nathan Crilly. 2015
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Interviews were conducted with thirteen professional designers to understand their attitudes towards fixation and the practices they adopt to address it. Fixation was thought to be encouraged and discouraged by a wide range of factors related to the project, the client, the design team, the organisational culture and the design activities employed. The experiences that designers accumulate during their professional lives were associated with fixation in different ways. The experience of prior design failures was thought to encourage fixation whilst the experience of varied solutions was thought to discourage fixation. Recognising fixation episodes and reflecting on them was described as the means by which designers could guard against such episodes in the future and thus be more creative.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges (2016, methodology): “…to represent real design contexts where examples are provided with the brief, or where they are already known to be viable, already known to be not viable, are searched for in a database for inspiration or are developed by the designers in their initial response to the brief (Crilly, 2015).”
- An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design (2021, background): “2012; Sosa and Marle 2013; Crilly 2015; Grace et al.”