Combined Intuition and Rationality Increases Software Feature Novelty for Female Software Designers
This research addresses the problem of fostering novelty in software design for practitioners, particularly highlighting the role of cognitive styles in female designers.
This paper investigates how different cognitive styles influence the novelty of software features. It found that female software designers who combined both intuition and rationality produced the most novel software features among 80 participants.
Overcoming society's complex problems requires novel solutions. Applying different cognitive styles can promote novelty when designing software aimed at these problems. Through an experiment with 80 software design practitioners, we found that female practitioners who had a preference for more than one cognitive style (intuition and rationality) produced the most novel software features of all participants.