Directing Study for Creative Thinking

Teaching Creative Thinking Skills: A Longitudinal Study

With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

Fostering Creative Thinking through Philosophy-based Dialogue Skills for Children

Introdction: Philosophy can be used as a way to cultivate moral thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking. The aim of the present study is to investigate the development of creative thinking through philosophybased dialogue skills for children. Methods: This Review article has been performed using creative thinking, conversation skills, and philosophy for children keywords in variou...

The Theoretical Framework for Creative Visual Thinking

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

Supportive Interfaces for Creative Visual Thinking

Current graphical user interfaces (GUI) are too cumbersome to use in the early stage of creative activities. Nested menus, arrays of buttons, and dialog boxes interfere with the flexible exploration. As a result, especially in visual task domain, most people rely on traditional pen and paper for the initial exploration, and move to the computers later. Our goal is to provide fluent user interfa...