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 Tap Guide Feature by Jon - This is a good example of the homemade tool builder's common foe: functional fixedness. And the cruel part is that the more skilled and experienced you become, the more vulnerable you are to this fixedness - it is like a kind of Déformation professionelle.
AFAIK, we are evolved to have a bit of useful functional fixedness; otherwise we would have to repeatedly ask things like "Pin It")
This is a good example of the homemade tool builder's common foe: functional fixedness. And the cruel part is that the more skilled and experienced you become, the more vulnerable you are to this fixedness - it is like a kind of Déformation professionelle.
AFAIK, we are evolved to have a bit of useful functional fixedness; otherwise we would have to repeatedly ask things like "What tool can bang in this nail?". The leading theory now is that we overcompensate, and we need to do specific cognitive exercises to un-fixate, of the exact reductivist types that mklotz is mentioning.
Also note that one of the top experts in this field, Dr. Tony McCaffrey, recently published a book that expands on his Obscure Features hypothesis: https://www.amazon.com/Overcome-Obst...dp/1475834640/ . The field of innovation research is new, but McCaffrey's work is right at the cutting edge. His book just came out this past summer; looks like the only review is from a research partner.
More:
https://hbr.org/2015/12/find-innovat...east-expect-it
https://www.innovationaccelerator.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Déform...rofessionnelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
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