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Cross, Nigel
(1990).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0142-694X(90)90002-T
Abstract
Understanding the nature of design ability can better enable design educators to nurture its development in their students. Such understanding has been promoted by a wide variety of studies of design activity and designer behaviour. From a review of these studies, design ability is summarised as comprising resolving ill-defined problems, adopting solution-focussed cognitive strategies, employing abductive or appositional thinking and using non-verbal modelling media. These abilities are highly developed in skilled designers, but are also possessed in some degree by everyone. A case is therefore made for design ability as a fundamental form of human intelligence. The nurture of this ability through design education is discussed, with particular reference to the problem of providing design education through the distance-learning media of the Open University.
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- Item ORO ID
- 39445
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0142-694X
- Keywords
- design education; design ability
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Design and Innovation
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- © 1990 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Depositing User
- Nigel Cross