SCWID: A Tool for Supporting Creative Work In Design
Damon J. Cook, Heather E. Metcalf, Brian P. Bailey · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2005
Computer tools offer enormous benefits for the early design process such as remote collaboration, advanced visualiza-tion, and the ability to run a design. However, current tools fail to support many elements of creative problem solving, inhibiting the early design process. From the literature on design theory and creativity, and extensive low-fidelity pro-totyping, we developed SCWID: a tool for Supporting Creative Work In Design. SCWID uses a large display to provide a shared visual context for alternative design ideas and multiple local displays for sketching details, navigating a particular idea, and manipulating alternatives. Grounded in creativity theory, the use of our tool facilitates creative thinking in the early stages of design for individual and groups of designers.