Creativityin Software Development
About Me
Professionally developing software since 2003
Focus on web, mobile and game development
Into the gaming industry since 2008
Former Lead developer Web Games @ Gameforge
Now gun for hire: Eckert Internet Services
Are Software Developers Creative?
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Definition of Creativity
There is no spoon.
No universally valid definition!
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[] in terms of the cognitive processes that lead to an original
(e.g., novel, unique, or highly unusual) and adaptive (e.g.,
fitting, useful, orapt) insight, idea, or solution.Runco, 1994
[...] the ability to produce work that is both novel (i.e.,
original, unexpected) and appropriate (i.e., useful, adaptive
concerning task constraints)Sternberg & Lubbart, 1996
> Novel & Useful
