The Thinking Styles of Creative and Talented Persons in Design Convergence

Abstract

Background This research intentionally defines capable persons who studied design and gained other knowledge as ‘Talented Persons in Design Convergence’ in order to present the blueprint of creative persons in design convergence with design majors. This study also verifies the creativity of talented persons in design convergence and discusses the psychological side of creative persons based on the perceptional thinking style. Methods The research classified the test groups according to science convergence and design major and conducted a quantitative survey (as a creativity & thinking style test) in accordance with three research issues in order to explore creative persons in convergence. Results The following sequence was made when listing the test groups in order of high creativity: ①the group of talented persons in design convergence, ②the group of talented persons in non-design convergence, ③the group of design majors, and ④the group of non-design majors. The group of talented persons in design convergence preferred the ‘legislative’, ‘anarchic’ and ‘totalitarian’ thinking styles but relatively did not prefer the ‘conservative’ thinking style. Conclusion The talented persons in design convergence who converged design knowledge with other knowledge were found to have higher creative tendency than those who combined other types of knowledge. Also, the talented persons in design convergence could be proposed as activation mechanisms of creative persons. Through this, it is desirable that enterprises shall excavate design majors and promote them to talented persons in convergence in order to prepare a virtual cycle structure which may create the sustainable innovation value of the enterprise.