Preface; List of Reviewers; DESIGN COGNITION: A comparison of cognitive heuristics use between engineers and industrial designers, by Seda Yilmaz, Shanna Daly, Colleen Seifert and Richard Gonzalez; Studying the unthinkable designer, by Ann Heylighen; Cognitive heuristics in design: Instructional strategies in idea Generation, by Seda Yilmaz, Colleen Seifert and Richard Gonzalez; An anthropo-based standpoint on mediating objects: Evolution and extension of industrial design practices, by Catherine Elsen, Françoise Darses and Pierre Leclercq; FRAMEWORK MODELS IN DESIGN : Beyond the design perspective of Gero�s FBS framework, by Caetano Cascini, Luca Del Frate, Gualtiero Fantoni and… Francesca Montagna; Formal model of computer-aided visual design, by Ewa Grabska and Grażyna �lusarczyk; Design agents and the need for high-dimensional perception, by Sean Hanna; A framework for constructive design rationale, by Udo Kannengiesser and John S Gero; DESIGN CREATIVITY : The curse of creativity, by David Brown; Enabling creativity through innovation challenges: The case of interactive lighting, by Stefania Bandini, Andrea Bonomi, Giuseppe Vizzari and Vito Acconci; Facetwise study of modeling activities in the algorithm for inventive problem solving ARIZ and evolutionary algorithms, by Céline Conrardy, Roland De Guio and Bruno Zuber; Exploring multiple solutions and multiple analogies to support innovative design, by Apeksha Gadwal and Julie Linsey; Creative and inventive design support system: Systematic approach and evaluation using quality engineering, by Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yuki Sonoda, Mika Tsukamoto and Yusuke Sato; LINE, PLANE, SHAPE, SPACE IN DESIGN: Line and plane to solid: Analyzing their use in design practice through shape rules; Gareth Paterson and Chris Earl; Interactions between brand identity and shape rules, by Rosidah Jaafar, Alison McKay, Alan de Pennington and Hau Hing Chau; Approximate enclosed space using virtual agent, by Aswin Indraprastha and Michihiko Shinozaki; Associative spatial networks in architectural design � Artificial cognition of space using neural networks with spectral graph theory, by John Harding and Christian Derix; DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES IN DESIGN: Comparing stochastic design decision belief models: Pointwise versus interval probabilities, by Peter C Matthews; The redefinition of the paradox of choice, by Michal Piasecki and Sean Hanna; Rethinking automated layout design: Developing a creative evolutionary design method for the layout problems in architecture and urban design, by Sven Schneider, Jan-Ruben Fischer and Reinhard König; Applying clustering techniques to retrieve housing units from a repository, by �lvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo and Mar González; KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING IN DESIGN: Different function breakdowns for one existing product: Experimental results, by Thomas Alink, Claudia Eckert, Anne Ruckpaul and Albert Albers; A general knowledge-based framework for conceptual design of multi-disciplinary systems; Yong Chen, Ze-Lin Liu and You-Bai Xie; Learning concepts and language for a baby designer; Madan Mohan Dabbeeru and Amitabha Mukerjee; Organizing a design space of disparate component topologies, by Mukund Kumar and Matthew I Campbell; USING DESIGN COGNITION: Imaging the designing brain: A neurocognitive exploration of design thinking, by Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos and Sam Gilbert; A computational design system with cognitive features based on multi-objective evolutionary search with fuzzy information processing, by Michael S Bitterman; Narrative bridging, by Katarina Borg Gyllenback and Magnus Boman; Generic non-technical procedures in design problem solving: Is there any benefit to the clarification of task requirements?, by Constance Winkelmann and Winfried Hacker; Virtual impression networks for capturing deep impressions, by Toshiharu Taura, Eiko Yamamoto, Mohd Yusof Nor Fasiha and Yukari Nagai; COLLABORATIVE/COLLECTIVE DESIGN : Scaling up: From indiv