How Are Ideas Formed?

Question 1

What are the 7 ways of forming new ideas?

Answer 1

1. Act of insight
2. Adaptation
3. Analogy
4. Bi-association
5. Chance
6. Combination
7. Transfer

Question 2

How are ideas formed by chance?

Answer 2

While working on one thing scientists and technologists can stumble upon new things

Question 3

Example of an idea generated by chance?

Answer 3

Velcro

Cats eye

Question 4

How ideas are formed by acts of insight?

Answer 4

Applying the logic every day observations to solve a design problem

Question 5

What is an example of an idea generated by an act of inflight?

Answer 5

Bounding bomb from skipping stones on a pond

Question 6

What is Biassociation?

Answer 6

Bringing together to seemingly unrelated ideas

Question 7

Example of Biassociation

Answer 7

Bouncing bomb from skipping stones

Question 8

How are ideas formed by adapation?

Answer 8

Adapting a solution for another design problem

Question 9

Example of idea generated by adaptation

Answer 9

Dyson bagless vacuum

Question 10

How are ideas formed by transfer

Answer 10

When technology, materials or processes

transferred from one application to another

in order to provide a design solution

Question 11

Example of idea generated by transfer

Answer 11

Lasers in molecular science research now used in CD players

Question 12

How are ideas formed by analogy

Answer 12

Designers use similar situations

to inspire ideas

Can be natural or man-made

Question 13

Example if ideas generated by analogy

Answer 13

Wright brothers observed how birds is twist their wings to balance in flights and adapted their aircraft to mimic this

Human arm inspired Anglepoise lamp

Question 14

How are ideas formed by combination

Answer 14

Two or more devices are combined to make one new product

Question 15

Examples of ideas generated by combination

Answer 15

Phone with camera and mp3