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Measuring design mindset

Developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking

Journal Article (2024)
Author(s)

Jakob Clemen Lavrsen (Technical University of Denmark (DTU))

Claus Christian Carbon (University of Bamberg)

J.J. Daalhuizen (TU Delft - Support Human-Centered Design)

Research Group
Support Human-Centered Design
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2024.36
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Research Group
Support Human-Centered Design
Volume number
10
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Abstract

Designers rely on many methods and strategies to create innovative designs. However, design research often overlooks the personality and attitudinal factors influencing method utility and effectiveness. This article defines and operationalizes the construct design mindset and introduces the Design Mindset Inventory (D-Mindset0.1), allowing us to measure and leverage statistical analyses to advance our understanding of its role in design. The inventory’s validity and reliability are evaluated by analyzing a large sample of engineering students (N = 473). Using factor analysis, we identified four underlying factors of D-Mindset0.1 related to the theoretical concepts: Conversation with the Situation, Iteration, Co-Evolution of Problem–Solution and Imagination. The latter part of the article finds statistical and theoretically meaningful relationships between design mindset and the three design-related constructs of sensation-seeking, self-efficacy and ambiguity tolerance. Ambiguity tolerance and self-efficacy emerge as positively correlated with design mindset. Sensation-seeking, which is only significantly correlated with subconstructs of D-Mindset0.1, is both negatively and positively correlated. These relationships lend validity D-Mindset0.1 and, by drawing on previously established relationships between the three personality traits and specific behaviors, facilitate further investigations of what its subconstructs capture.