An apprentice dressmaker sees a new dress that is not like any she has made before. She would like to duplicate the dress, but she doesn’t have a pattern for it. What problem solving heuristic would be an effective way to solve this problem?

Problem solving characteristic that she must  follow is innovation and creation.

Explanation:

The dressmaker sees a dress they had never encountered before and has no understanding on how it is made but only the finished product at her hand.

So, now, she must engage in a process of deconstructing how the dress would have been made and via understanding the parts of it make sense of what truly comprises it.

After this process she must get to finding a way to innovate these parts on her own terms and create the dress from anew.

it is a process of deconstructing and then of reconstructing using one's own adhesive creativity.