Assignment 64
Dr. Salah Elaskari
Adopted from Strategies for creative problem solving
Design Concept Ideas
Problem Solving
• Criteria = originality & quality of solutions to problem situations –
• good problem solving involves creating solutions that are:
• - Logical
• - Effective
• - Unique
The Five Building Blocks of the Heuristic
Define the problem
Generate solutions
Decide Course of action
Implement solution
Evaluate solution Problem Solved
Steps of generating solutions
3 Design Concept ideas for your chosen design challenge
Compare and evaluate the 3 design ideas
Decide which of your ideas is the best using systemic method
Duncker Diagram
Achieve Desired
State
Path 1
Solution 1
Solution 2
Solution 3
Path 2 Path 3
Possible Paths to Desired State
Solutions to Implement
Paths to Desired State
Metal Block
• Common Causes: • Defining the problem too
narrowly. • It’s harder to come up
with solutions
Metal Block
• Assuming there is only one right answer. • Hooked on the first
solution
Metal Block
• Getting frustrated by lack of success
Metal Block
• Being too anxious to finish
Improving Your Creative Abilities
• Keep track of your ideas at all times.
• Many times ideas come at unexpected times. If an idea is not written down within 24 hours, it will usually be forgotten.
Improving Your Creative Abilities
• Pose new questions to yourself every day.
Improving Your Creative Abilities
• Be open and receptive to ideas (yours and others).
Improving Your Creative Abilities
• Adopt a risk-taking attitude.
Osborn’s checklist for adding new ideas
Vertical Thinking – (S.C.A.M.P.E.R) • Substitute
• Combine
• Adapt
• Modify (Magnify, Minify)
• Put to other uses
• Eliminate
• Rearrange
Osborn’s Checklist for Adding New Ideas
•Substitute? ..... Other ingredient, material, or approach?
•Combine? ...... Combine parts, units, ideas? Blend?
•Adapt? .......... How can this (product, idea, plan, etc.) be used as is? What are other uses it could be adapted to?
•Modify? ........ Change material, color, shape, odor, etc.?
•Magnify? ...... Add new component? Make longer, stronger, thicker, higher, etc.?
•Minify? ........ Split up? Take something out? Make lighter, lower, shorter, etc.?
Osborn’s Checklist for Adding New Ideas
•Put to other uses? ..... How can you put the thing to other uses? New Other uses if it is modified?
•Eliminate? ..... What can you eliminate? Remove something? Eliminate waste? Reduce time? Reduce effort? Cut costs?
•Rearrange? ..... Interchange parts? Other patterns, layouts? Reverse roles? Turn it backwards or upside down? Sort?