Basic Design for cultivating creative thinking

The purpose of this paper is to explore the teaching methods for Basic Design which aims at cultivating creative thinking for the design beginners. Based on Bounded Rationality, for the essence of creative thinking like “selection”, “breakthrough”, and “reconstruction”, this paper proposed some new teaching methods, which included “simple problem”, “limitation”, and “quantity”. Moreover this paper discussed the relationships between rationality and creative thinking, and the applied range of above methods. These new methods are useful for improving the teaching quality of Basic Design and cultivating creative thinking for the design beginners.