Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

Mixplorer: Scaffolding Design Space Exploration through Genetic Recombination of Multiple Peoples' Designs to Support Novices' Creativity

The ability to consider a wide range of solutions to a design problem is a crucial skill for designers, and is a major differentiator between experts and novices. One reason for this is that novices are unaware of the full extent of the design space in which solutions are situated. To support novice designers with des…