Techniques to overcome functional fixedness and encourage UX innovation? [on hold]

Functional fixedness is a common obstacle for innovation. UX design is a creative area that usually challenges designers to present content in a creative and useful way.

What techniques can one use to avoid relaying too much on the same patterns?

A bit more on functional fixedness

"Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used. The concept of functional fixedness originated in Gestalt psychology, a movement in psychology that emphasizes holistic processing."

Innovation Relies on the ObscurePsychological Science. This study showed that the generic-parts technique can help people unearth the types of obscure features that can be used to overcome functional fixedness, which is a classic inhibitor to problem solving.

Reference:

Innovation Relies on the ObscurePsychological Science - Tony McCaffrey, 2012 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611429580

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness