...Miao Jia; Shuo Jiang; Jie Hu; Jin Qi Using examples to inspire designers to generate more innovative design solutions is a widely adopted methodology for design support, while inappropriate use of examples may simultaneously lead to design fixation. Once a designer falls into “design fixation...

..., and less familiar, technologies during idea generation. We call this new form of design fixation Manufacturing Fixation in Design (MFD), which we define as unconscious and often unintentional adherence to a limited set of manufacturing processes and/or constraints and capabilities during the design...

...Dongwook Hwang; Byunghyun Choi; Soonho Bae; Woojin Park External stimuli can stimulate a designer's creativity and improve the outcome of design ideation for product/service concept generation. A psychological phenomenon that may occur during such utilization of external stimuli is design fixation...

..., the authors anticipate that the Plastic Building Condition should cause greater design fixation, yielding significantly lower novelty and variety compared to the Sketching Only and Metal Building conditions. Building physical models with plastic differs from metal in one more aspect: the scale...

... that both the faculty and novice designers fixate to the example solution by the same extent, resulting in a lower quantity of nonredundant ideas. When an example was not present, within the Control Group, the faculty designers outperformed novices in terms of the quantity. This could be due to the wider...

... literature provides contradicting guidelines about their use in the design process. Product design firms call for the frequent use of physical models, but some studies suggest that physical models induce design fixation. The psychological literature indicates that physical representations, by supporting...

... fixation in a group of engineering design faculty, and also provides evidence for approaches to overcome design fixation. Three conditions are compared, a control, a fixation group whom were provided with an example solution, and a defixation group whom were also given materials to mitigate their design...