THE DYNAMICS OF THE COMPONENTS IN THE TRIAD PROBLEM-SOLVING MODEL OF DESIGN

: The objectives of this study are to investigate the general patterns of the triadic components drawn from the triad problem-solving model of design and to examine how the triadic components are associated with design task, process, and outcome. We conducted the protocol analysis with trashcan design tasks at two different determinization levels and the post-experiment survey. Through the protocol analysis, we identified that both the percentage and increase rate of the solution category were highest while those of the problem category were lowest. This indicates that designers spend most times on creating solutions while least times on analyzing design problems, and these patterns of the triadic components become more dominant as the problem-solving activities progressed. Through correlation analysis, we found the positive effect of the goal-oriented problem-solving process on the concept generation and the importance of the analyzing problems to produce solutions with better functional utility. Abstract: The objectives of this study are to investigate the general patterns of the triadic components drawn from the triad problem-solving model of design and to examine how the triadic components are associated with design task, process, and outcome. We conducted the protocol analysis with trashcan design tasks at two different determinization levels and the post-experiment survey. Through the protocol analysis, we identified that both the percentage and increase rate of the solution category were highest while those of the problem category were lowest. This indicates that designers spend most times on creating solutions while least times on analyzing design problems, and these patterns of the triadic components become more dominant as the problem-solving activities progressed. Through correlation analysis, we found the positive effect of the goal-oriented problem-solving process on the concept generation and the importance of the analyzing problems to produce solutions with better functional utility.

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