Dialogical ideation

Ideation through dialogue inspires openness to others' viewpoints and to learning from one another. Ideation through argument, in contrast, might stimulate obsessive thinking holding on to ideas with defensiveness and/or try to push ideas onto others.

Ideas matter

'Individual history matters because ideas matter; people who have the ideas matter; learning the genealogy (if not progressive evolution) of ideas matter; Sure, human life and ideas and their relationships and influences are complex and unguided. But they aren't patternless or boundless.They are only made possible with the stuff in circulation (including the limits of language itself), and if we're sure to align the type of claim we make to the kind of evidence we have, we actually can help bring our ideas and practices into focus for due consideration and learning'. Derek B. Miller, The Policy Lab.

Ideation as science fiction

Design ideation may show communality with science-fiction where speculation and storytelling play out within scientifically established laws of nature. But as design, like science fiction, has entered popular culture, some designs may become associated with low-budget, low-quality stuff, similar to B-movies and pulp science fiction.