Enhancing Creativity in Interaction Design:Alternative Design Brief

摘要

This paper offers a critique of the design brief as it is currently usedin teaching interaction design and proposes an alternative way of developingit. Such a design brief requires the exploration of alternative application domains for an already developed technology. The paper presents a case study where such a novel type of design brief has been offered to the students takingpart in a collaborative design project and discusses how it supported divergent thinking and creativity as well as helped enhancing the learning objectives.