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Papers

(The median citation count of Design Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sampling in design research: Eight key considerations	60
A cautionary tale about the impact of AI on human design teams	46
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	38
The life cycle of creative ideas: Towards a dual-process theory of ideation	32
Quality in research through design projects: Recommendations for evaluation and enhancement	32
Conceptualization and operationalization of empathy in design research	31
Method content theory: Towards a new understanding of methods in design	27
Prototyping strategies for stakeholder engagement during front-end design: Design practitioners’ approaches in the medical device industry	24
Decoding the agility of artificial intelligence-assisted human design teams	23
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in design studies: Methodological considerations, challenges, and recommendations	21
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	21
Languaging design methods	20
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning	19
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	18
The impact of confirmation bias on reasoning and visual attention during analysis in engineering design: An eye tracking study	18
The relationship between divergent thinking and ideation in the conceptual design process	18
Cognitive strategies in solution mapping: How engineering designers identify problems for technological solutions	17
Parametric modeling tools in small architectural offices: Towards an adapted design process model	17
Design thinking: What just happened?	16
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	16
Understanding representation: Contrasting gesture and sketching in design through dual-process theory	16
Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice	15
Editorial: Design Research Notes	14
The design entrepreneur: How adaptive cognition and formal design training create entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention	14
Participation in design research	14

Prototyping to elicit user requirements for product development: Using head-mounted augmented reality when designing interactive devices	13
Problem framing and cognitive style: Impacts on design ideation perceptions	13
Characterization of concept generation for engineering design through temporal brain network analysis	13
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	13
Design science and neuroscience: A systematic review of the emergent field of Design Neurocognition	13
Situated emotion and its constructive role in collaborative design: A mixed-method study of experienced designers	13
Articulating care and responsibility in design: A study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators' ‘care-making’ practices	12
Formulating design research questions: A framework	12
Design and responsible research innovation in the additive manufacturing industry	12
Tactile co-design tools for complex interdisciplinary problem exploration in healthcare settings	12
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	11
Decolonising design in peacebuilding contexts	10
Exploring tutor-student interactions in a novel virtual design studio	10
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	9
Understanding inspiration: Insights into how designers discover inspirational stimuli using an AI-enabled platform	9
Innovating product design through university-industry collaboration: Codesigning a bushfire rated skylight	9
The relevance of virtual reality to communication design	9
Sticky notes as a kind of design material: How sticky notes support design cognition and design collaboration	9
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind	9
Analysing frequent natural language expressions from design conversations	9
Historicising design space: Uses of the past in participatory prefiguring of spatial development	9
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	8
Creativity or creativities? Why context matters	8
The story novice designers tell: How rhetorical structures and prototyping shape communication with external audiences	8
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	8
Using decisive constraints to create design methods that guide ethical impact	8
How to do things with notes: The embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes	8
Sketching and context: Exploring creativity in idea generation groups	7
Design anthropological approaches in collaborative museum curation	7
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	7
Co-producing, curating and reconfiguring dwelling patterns: A design anthropological approach for sustainable dwelling futures in residential suburbs	7
Editorial: Design Anthropology	7
End user engagement in refugee shelter design: Contextualising participatory process	6
Co-designing conversational agents: A comprehensive review and recommendations for best practices	6
Design games as fieldwork: Re-visiting design games from a design anthropological perspective	6
A descriptive phenomenological approach to perception of affective quality in design inspiration	5
Expansive learning for collaborative design	5
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	5
Human-level design proposals by an artificial agent in multiple scenarios	4
Interweaving vulnerability and everyday design: Encounters around an aquarium in a paediatric oncology ward	4
Kinds of ‘moving’ in designing with sticky notes	4
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability	4
A sociomaterial perspective on epistemic objects in design practice	4
Transition co-design dynamics in high level policy processes	4
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	4
Performance of architectural teams: The role of team learning, reflexivity, boundary crossing and error communication	3
Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality	3
Uncertainty and disciplinary difference: Mapping attitudes towards uncertainty across discipline boundaries	3
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	3
Towards an integrative approach to researching design expertise	3

The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	3
Negotiating social value, time perspective, and development space in sustainable product design: A dialectics perspective	3
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	3
Ethnography and exhibition design: Insights from the Moesgaard inaugural	3
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	3