Design Fixation
Design Fixation is a journal article by David G. Jansson, Steven M. Smith (1991), published in Design Studies. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 5 practices across 4 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this journal article is put to use.
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Practices on IX Coach that cite Design Fixation
- Use SCAMPER and other prompts to vary ideas
Apply structured prompts (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, etc.) to push ideas in new directions.
Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
- Decompose the problem into independent parameters
Identify the key dimensions that fully describe your problem space before generating solutions.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
- Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
- Kill your darlings deliberately
Identify the idea you’re most attached to, then set it aside first.
Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
- Identify the constraint you invented: ask "who said it had to be this way?"
Name one element of your creative work you have never questioned and spend 20 minutes treating it as optional.
The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
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