Design Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Design Studies is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page95
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process79
Editorial: Design Research Notes52
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game48
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada47
Editorial Board37
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page37
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design34
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model34
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice33
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page31
Editorial Board28
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design27
Acknowledgement of Referees26
There is no such thing as strategic design26
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling26
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design24
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page24
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page21
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts21
Inspiration for styling tasks20
Editorial Board18
The role of expertise in design facilitation practice: A systematic review18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page17
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research15
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy14
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures13
Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend13
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility13
Languaging design methods13
Book Review13
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research13
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review11
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?11
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework10
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia10
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