This study explored the effects of cloud‐based m‐learning on students' creative processes and products in engineering design. A nonequivalent pretest–posttest design was adopted, and 62 university students from Taipei City, Taiwan, were recruited as research participants in the study. The results showed that cloud‐based m‐learning had a positive effect on creative performance in engineering design. It also improved the creative process in terms of presenting problems and of generating and validating responses. Additionally, cloud‐based m‐learning effectively improved overall performance, novelty, value and elaboration in designing creative products.