Designing Individual Creativity Support Systems

Individual creativity support systems have been developed to facilitate creative work. However, the designs typically consult very few creativity theories. In addition, they usually neglect problem definition and convergent thinking even though there is strong evidence that the whole creative process should be supported. Based on the literature on creativity theories, a new set of principles is proposed to guide the design of individual creativity support systems. Six propositions are made based on the principles, and ways of testing them are discussed. The article provides both an overview of the current literature of individual creativity support systems and a discussion of directions for future research