Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work

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An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design (2021, background): “Creativity is considered an essential element of human intelligence (Cross 2011).”
Design thinking: A creative approach to educational problems of practice (2017, background): “The term “design thinking” refers to cognitive processes of design work (Cross, 2011; Simon, 1969)–or the thinking skills and practices designers use to create new artifacts or ideas, and solve problems in practice.”
The importance of design for firms' competitiveness: a review of the literature (2014, background): “Cross (2011) * Develop an understanding of how designers think and work.”
Linkographic Evidence for Concurrent Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creative Design (2016, background): “The participants were architects and architecture students of various standing, including some highly regarded experts.2 The Delft designers, an individual mechanical engineer and a team of three industrial designers, were all experts (Cross, 2011).”
Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers (2015, background): “…on” when a more considered and reflective approach, and consideration of alternative solution concepts, might save time and effort in the long run’ (Cross, 2011: p. 36).19 Considering their own interview studies with race car engineering designer Gordon Murray, Cross and Cross (1996) say…”