Capturing and analysing shape creation in design

  • Authors:
  • Gareth Paterson

  • Affiliations:
  • Umeå University, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Explicit knowledge of how shape is created is lacking from the research literature. As this is a predominantly visual process it is difficult, if not impossible, to express in words. Substituting shape rules for verbal reports in protocol analysis, however, overcomes this difficulty. Shape rules employed in this way allow practitioners, and researchers, to record and reflect on the otherwise inexpressible processes central to visual creativity.