Hi Stuart,
I was about to mention Chris Heape's dissertation, but he beat me to it.
Michael Biskjaer, Kim Halskov, and I wrote a paper for DIS14 about using the concept of constraints to understand design spaces. It also draws on Zwicky's morphological analysis.
Michael Mose Biskjaer, Peter Dalsgaard, and Kim Halskov. 2014. A constraint-based understanding of design spaces. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 453-462. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598533
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2598533
The notion of problem-solution space might also be relevant, e.g. this one:
Stefan Wiltschnig, Bo T. Christensen, Linden J. Ball, Collaborative problem–solution co-evolution in creative design, Design Studies, Volume 34, Issue 5, September 2013, Pages 515-542, ISSN 0142-694X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2013.01.002.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X13000033)
Best,
Peter
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