OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Design Studies is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	62
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	47
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	46
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	45
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	43
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	39
Editorial Board	39
Conceptualizing place attachment affordance: Exploring an affordance-based approach to place attachment	38
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	37
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	34
Editorial Board	33
Mapping affordance dimensions: A design model for enhancing visually impaired persons’ agency in food-mediated recycling	28
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	23
There is no such thing as strategic design	21
Refining adaptive design approaches for color vision deficiency: A systematic review and taxonomy (2000–2025)	18
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	18
Design Martinis and Design Machetes: The Unspoken Paradox	17
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	17
Editorial Board	16
Inspiration for styling tasks	16
The role of expertise in design facilitation practice: A systematic review	13
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	13
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	12
Editorial Board	12

AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	11
Editorial Board	11
Boundary spanners in co-design networks: Modulating tension and structuring informal power	10
Experimental study on improving the quality of interdisciplinary design: Collaborate with AI psychology experts for design develop process	10
Book Review	10
Heritage Spark: A card-based toolkit for navigating challenges of digitising intangible cultural heritage	10
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	9
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	9
Uncovering latent needs in longevity planning: A case study using mixed-methods and system modelling	9
Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend	9
Enhancing patient healthcare experience: A systematic review of emotional design in medical devices	9
From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices	8
Editorial: Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?	8
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	8
Editorial Board	8
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	8
Sensing place-based ecological knowledge for regenerative development and design	8
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	8
Book Review: Designing and Democracy	7
Interpreting entrepreneurial core values through visual aesthetics: An analysis of posters for online crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter	6
From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change	6
Transition design: Co-creating system solutions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care	6
Affordance-based design evaluation: Bridging architectural intention and adaptive user behavior	6
Negotiating social value, time perspective, and development space in sustainable product design: A dialectics perspective	5
Designing urban wayfinding systems with a dynamic perspective: A card-based approach	5
Editorial: Design Anthropology	5
Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach	4
Quality and qualities of design studies, design research and design	4
Capturing and revisiting ideas in the design process: A longitudinal technology probe study	4
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	4
Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process	4
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	4
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning	3
Decolonizing creative education in the global south	3
Exploring game design approaches through conversations with designers	3
An experiential learning approach to basic design studio	3
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	3
That was fun, now what?: Modelizing knowledge dynamics to explain co-design's shortcomings	3
A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices	3
Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality	3
Editorial Board	2
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability	2
Rendering racism: Visualizing colorblind architecture	2
Functional activity and connectivity during ideation in professional product design engineers	2
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind	2
Unraveling the nature of design thinking disposition: Contributions of trait cognitive flexibility and trait empathy on design thinking potential	2
Screens: Devices of screen ecosystems and designers’ perspectives	2