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