Descriptive models of creative design: Application to an example

Design Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 427-440

  Cross, Nigel ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creative design; Creativity; Design behaviour; Product design case study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CREATIVE DESIGN; DESCRIPTIVE MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0031250298     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(97)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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