Managing information in a creative environment

摘要

Prior knowledge and domain expertise are key to successful design and creativity. New digital workspaces should support the management of ever-increasing amounts of digital information and design artifacts as well as support collaboration during the creative process. In this paper, we present the findings of an observational study describing how expert designers organize and utilize information in their design workspaces throughout the initial creative phases of problem-structuring and high level design. We describe how these findings could inform further study in mixed reality creative environments.