Structure of the design thinking network

Design thinking, as a complex system, can be described as complex network. We constructed design thinking networks from analysing verbal protocols acquired form a design experiment conducted with think-aloud method. The characteristic path length and the clustering coefficient of the design thinking networks were calculated and compared with that of the equivalent random graphs. Result indicates that the design thinking networks have distinct small-world architecture and the degree has an exponential distribution with a right tail that follows a power law.