Rate My Professor Nathan Crilly

Crilly has held an EPSRC Fellowship (2013–2019), Clare College Fellowship (2009–2016), and a fellowship with the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (2014), and is a Fellow of the Design Research Society. He received the Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence in 2023 and led the team awarded Gold at the 2025 Learning Technologies Awards for the Cambridge Advance Online course 'Creativity, Problem Solving and Design Thinking'. As academic lead for this and other professional courses, including Creative Leadership at the Møller Centre, he coordinates undergraduate engineering modules on design processes, user-centred design, systems thinking, and visual communication, and delivers outreach lectures. His key publications include the book *Design Thinking and Other Approaches: How Different Disciplines See, Think and Act* (Cambridge University Press, 2024); highly cited papers such as 'Seeing Things: Consumer Response to the Visual Domain in Product Design' (Design Studies, 2004), 'Fixation and Creativity in Concept Development: The Attitudes and Practices of Expert Designers' (Design Studies, 2015), and 'Where Next for Research on Fixation, Inspiration and Creativity in Design?' (Design Studies, 2017). Crilly advises companies on creativity and design thinking, conducts user insight studies, and supports public-sector transformation via the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy.