Combined Intuition and Rationality Increases Software Feature Novelty for Female Software Designers
Carianne Pretorius, Maryam Razavian, Katrin Eling, Fred Langerak · IEEE Software · 2020
Different cognitive styles can promote novelty when designing software. Through a detailed experiment, we found that female practitioners who had a preference for more than one cognitive style (intuition and rationality) produced the most novel software features of all the participants.