Designers think in a specific way that is both ubiquitous and
unique, often referred to as "design thinking" or "design
cognition." Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design
presents empirical evidence for this claim. It demonstrates a
unique attribute of design thinking by identifying and
characterizing a class of questions called "Generative Design
Questions." These questions are frequently asked by designers in
dialog. Their use constitutes a fundamental cognitive mechanism in
design thinking. Their discovery stems from another finding of the
work: a conceptual duality between questions and decisions that is
engraved deep within the design process.
This duality challenges a view that treats designing as decision
making. Decisions form the tip of the iceberg; Questions keep it
afloat:
-Can an effective decision making process be performed without
having high quality information?
-Can high quality information be acquired and generated without
performing an effective inquiry process?
The answer to both questions is no, and underscores the importance
of our quest to better understand the role of inquiry in
design.
Pragmatically, Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design
presents a new design thinking model. It illustrates the effective
transformation of design requirements into design concepts and
those concepts into design decisions and specifications as a
question-driven process. The ability to leverage this cycle in
operating at the necessary level of conceptual abstraction
throughout the design process is a defining quality of high
performance innovative design teams.
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