Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking: The Drivers of Design Synthesis

By Jon Kolko. Design Issues, 2010

512 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• The Lens of Intrinsic Skill Atoms: A Method for Gameful Design (2015, background): “Forced association of two elements also proved useful—specifically, insight combination (Kolko, 2010) of one synthesis result and one design lens.”
• Organizing Thoughts and Connecting Brains: Material Practices and the Transition from Individual to Group-Level Prospective Sensemaking (2012, background): “By doing so, they helped compensate for the restriction posed by attentive memory to designers' capacity to process all the information regarding their task (Kolko, 2010).”