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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Reducing Information to Stimulate Design Imagination
Authors : Shiro Inoue, Paul A. Rodgers, Andy Tennant, Nick Spencer
Published in: Design Computing and Cognition '16
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This paper describes an experiment that is part of a larger research project that compares the visual reasoning between groups of designers and non-designers. In particular, this experiment focuses on how designers’ processes of reasoning is characterized when they are given different levels of reduced information of an object in comparison to a group of non-designers. The experiment used deconstructed and scaled-down components of Gerrit Riedveld’s iconic Red and Blue Chair. Three groups were given 3 different levels of information—group 1 were given components painted the same color as the original chair, group 2 were given components painted in a single (white) color, and group 3 were given unpainted (natural) components. The results suggest that the 3 levels of reduced information impacted on the designers’ reasoning processes and there were clear differences in the visual reasoning processes between design and non-design participants.