功能词对设计思维的启发效用研究

Research on the Inspiring Effects of Design Thinking with Functional Terms

为了研究功能词作为外部激励信息的启发效用,本文在分析面向功能词激励的设计思维信息处理过程的基础上,以功能词作为外部激励信息开展设计实验,通过对比分析40名学生设计者的设计草图,得出如下结论:功能词激励减少了设计方案的数量,但会显著提升设计方案的实用性;与高级功能词相比,低级功能词减少了设计方案的数量、新颖性和多样性,但增加了设计方案的实用性,而中级功能词则产生更加均衡的设计方案,可以作为最佳的设计激励媒介.

To study the inspiring effects of functional terms as external stimuli information, on the basis of analyzing the information processing of design thinking with functional term stimulation, some function terms were taken as external stimuli to carry out a design experiment. Based on the empirical results from an experiment involved 40 student designers, two research findings were generated. The first is that functional terms can make the quantity of generated design schemes decreased, but the usefulness of the generated design schemes significantly increased. The second is that, compared with high level functional terms, the low level functional terms can decrease the quantity, novelty and variety of generated design schemes, but can increase usefulness of generated design schemes. This may imply that middle level functional terms can produce better balanced design ideas,which can be used as the best external stimuli for designer.