期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2017
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：96-98
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2017.10.004
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：The article by Karin Lindgaard and Heico Wesselius1 sheds new light on the psychology of design by applying theoretical perspectives of metaphor, embodied cognition, and visual thinking to explain why design thinking—or thinking through design—is an embodied process to induce creative solutions. It highlights that human cognition originates, in part, from sensory perception, bodily movement, and physical interaction with the external world. These embodied experiences aid our understanding of abstract concepts, sense making of complex situations, and generation of meaning and insight. Design thinking engages individuals in activities such as sketching or prototyping to make ideas visible and tangible. These strategies naturally embody abstract ideas in concrete artifacts through physically presenting, manipulating, and simulating ideas, thus making it easier to materialize solutions to design problems. Such an embodied process explains why design thinking affords the generation and actualization of creative ideations.
