Psychological features of the development of creative thinking in future designers

The purpose of this article is to study the essential characteristics, parametric features and basic psychologic-pedagogical principles of the creative thinking development in future designers. The author has made a comparative analysis of the essential features of creative, productive and design thinking as peculiar prerequisites for the formation of the designer's consciousness of a future specialist. It is also singled out the basic parametric features of designer's thinking and described the main subjective personality traits that contribute to its development. It is substantiated that the purposeful formation of creative thinking in future designers will be more effective if three psychologic-pedagogical principles are implemented in the educational process: the problem principle; the principle of a harmonious combination of rational-logical and figuratively-emotional ways of cognition; the principle of complementarity of algorithmic and heuristic methods of mental activity