Designers' engagement in ideation is impacted by their perceptions of the parameters of the design task. Whereas expert designers actively interrogate and reframe given problems, novice designers tend to solve them as given. We investigated novice designers' perceptions of their ideas relative to problem frames and their cognitive styles. We found that innovative styles and framings corresponded to higher perceptions of idea diversity and creativity, whereas adaptive framings corresponded to lower perceptions of idea creativity and perceptions of greater difficulty generating ideas. Novice designers may hold implicit theories of creativity that undervalue adaptive creativity. However, problem frames that misalign with a novice's preferred cognitive style can impact their ideation, and so hold promise for challenging their initial interpretations and approaches.

设计师对构想的参与受他们对设计任务参数的理解的影响。专家级设计师会主动询问和重构给定的问题，而新手设计师则倾向于按给定的方式解决问题。我们调查了新手设计师对他们的想法相对于问题框架和认知风格的看法。我们发现，创新的风格和框架对应于更高的观念多样性和创造力感知，而适应性框架对应于较低的对观念创造力的感知和更大的想法产生难度的感知。新手设计师可能会采用含蓄的创意理论，这些理论会低估自适应创意的价值。但是，与新手偏爱的认知风格不一致的问题框架可能会影响他们的想法，