ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of an explorative, comparative analysis of two design meetings. It focuses on identifying how the style of the Design Task Description (DTD) influences the course and the outcome of idea generation meetings. A framework is used to classify potential influencing factors including the DTD, and to discuss the various relationships and influences between the factors in order to understand the differences in the course and the outcome of the meetings. We show that the style of the DTD was found to influence the length of the analysis phase in each meeting and led to differences in the course of the two meetings and to the rate of idea generation.
