OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Issues is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	17
Design Is Intention Made Sign: Yves Zimmermann's Essential Action	11
Contributors	8
Crossing Over: The Shared DNA of Design and Science	7
Revisiting the Experience Machine: A Philosophical Note on the Limits of Experience Design	7
Design Templates: Between Empowerment and Control of Amateur Graphic Designers	6
Disguising the National as International: The Design Strategy of the Argentine Furniture Firm Buró	5
The Value of Experience-Centered Design to Responsible Software Design and Engineering	4
Introduction	4
The Design Archeology Research Kit: Exploring the Past through Conducting “Design Archeology”	4
Undetectable Starting Points: Rethinking “Passing” in Level Design through Queerness, Disability, and Roxy's Got Balls	4
Contributors	4
Storying Multispecies Heritage: Artistic Approaches to Designing Urban Futures	3
Books Received	3
Participatory Design: Addressing Speech-Language Pathologists' Challenges through Collaborative Interface Design	3
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	3
A Research Agenda for Playful Systems Design	3
Review of Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR: Design Museum London, May 13, 2022-April 10, 2023 (Exhibition Review)	3
Value Deactivated: Waste as an Act of Sweeping	3
Gaming Xiuhpohualli: A (Chicano) Theory of Game Design	2
Elliat Rich: Mythica Ignota, Artefacts of the Oscillocene and the Warawana Mythologies: Canberra Glassworks, 3 October - 15 December, 2024 (exhibition review)	2
Critical Disciplinary Thinking and Curricular Design in Games	2
Commercial Art Education in 1930s Colonial Korea: Japanese Origins and Colonial Limitations	2
L'Homme comme un “être d'habitude.” Essai d'anthropologie et d'épistémologie pour les Sciences du Design	2
Redesigning Relations: Attachments in Citizens' Participatory History Making	2

Design and Making Things Better: Relating the Pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard McKeon in Design Inquiry	2
Introduction	2
Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science	2
Learning by Helping: Mutual Aid as a Pedagogical Response to Competition in Design Education	2
Contributors	2
Introduction	2
Introduction	1
Methodology Approach to Digital Imagery Conception: The Designer Against the Homogeneity of Digital Media	1
Ethnographies of Unimagined Possibilities: Toward a Conversational Paradigm for Human-Centered Design Research	1
Introduction: Toward Critical Game Design	1
The Book of Cal's by Cal Swann	1
Pre-Reflection-in-Action: Rethinking Schön's Reflective Practice Through the “Habits of Design Artistry”	1
Hypervernacular Design: Rethinking the Vernacular Design Paradigm	1
McDesign: McDonald's Video Games and Digital Play Areas	1
Designing Equitable Worlds: Six Orientations to Evoke the Future	1
Policy Design or Design for Policy: The Case for Boundary Figures	1
Contributors	1
Constructing a Reconstructed Philosophy: A Deweyan Philosophy-Through-Design	1
The Influence of Fonts on the Reading Performance in Easy-to-Read Texts: A Legibility Study with 145 Participants	1
The Politics of Play: Ugo La Pietra's Design Without Ends	1
The Intersection of Place and Game Design: The Case of Two Classic African Board Games	1
Feminist Pragmatist Design: Evolutionary Systems Change	1
Introduction	1
A Promising Break in the “Black Box”: Agency of Competencies and Interpretation in Istanbul Maker Ecologies	1
Contributors	1
Novelty ≠ Creativity: The Problem of Psychological Measurement in Design Practice and Education	1