Design Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Design Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep36
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for23
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions19
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution18
PadhAI: Autoethnographic journey of a neurodivergent designer navigating text-heavy research barriers14
Communication for comprehension13
Symbiosis: Regrounding interactive fashion design with posthumanist thinking11
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia11
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage11
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring9
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design9
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design9
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research8
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki8
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design7
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation7
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications6
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity6
How the integration of generative AI in design thinking-based collaborative learning impacts student creativity6
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making6
Using the technology acceptance model to examine generative AI integration in creative design education: A case study of fashion and interior design studios6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD5
The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches5
Designing rehabilitation playthings for people living with alzheimer’s disease: Categories, values, and design characteristics5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere5
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions5
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?5
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach5
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design5
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour5
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia4
Affordances of construction toys4
Call for Editorial Board members4
On what ground to design change: An inquiry into emerging design epistemologies4
A comprehensive framework for AI-driven chair design integrating finite element analysis, ergonomics, and manufacturing constraints4
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there4
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation4
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture4
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda4
Wearables Collective: Weaving innovations into stages of life4
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio3
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems3
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there3
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity3
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture3
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design3
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles3
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements3
Design is…3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design3
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities3
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods3
Transition design: Elements of practice2
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue2
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students2
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design2
How we learn2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact2
AI for Designers2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products2
Design as the ‘Bridge’2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design2
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice2
Ambiguity as a design resource in self-tracking wearables: A literature review2
The new normal? AI in design practice, education, and research2
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life2
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process2
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles2
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators2
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China2
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact2
Structuring service design methods: The MO Mapping Framework2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency2
What we do, how we do it and where2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters2
A design-driven engagement strategy for the creation and development of Renewable Energy Communities2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice2
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions2
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design2
Incorporating Designers’ Ideas in Developing a Collaborative Prototype for Supporting Age-Friendly Kitchen Co-Design in Chinese Gated Communities1
Inclusive design within industry 4.0: A literature review with an exploration of the concept of complexity1
Assessing the impact of maker services in Barcelona and Milan towards the 15-minute city model through their accessibility1
Novice designers in museums: A constructively aligned framework bridging formal and informal learning through artefact analysis1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
Using Generative AI Midjourney to enhance divergent and convergent thinking in an architect’s creative design process1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Leading by design1
Obstacles, Solutions and Creative Agencies: How Forces and Agencies Shape the Learning Process of Weaving1
Enhancing the tourism cultural and creative industry: A novel AIGC-integrated methodology for efficient IP image design1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era1
The empowerment of vocational college visual communication design major teaching pathways by AIGC1
An east wind is blowing1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model1
Industrial waste from corn applied in the development of tubes for planting eucalyptus seedlings1
Cognitive mapping: Enhancing discussions in the transdisciplinary design and health research space?1
Prismatic reflection: Educational understanding of crisis-ready speculative augmentation design1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Emerging interdisciplinary approaches: Integrated biofeedback/IVR methodologies for arousal measurement in biophilic interiors1
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice1
Is Democracy Designed?1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design1
Research on systems for doctoral education in design1
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis1
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration1
Design principles for mixed reality retail product configuration interfaces1
Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas1
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset1
The role of interior design in promoting a sense of home in people with dementia living in care facilities1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry1
Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit1
Geomart-ut7, Selçuk Artut, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
The dialogue between design and lutherie practiced on Maranhão Island – first conversations1
WeSIO: A framework for designing wellbeing-centred sustainable interactions through an object-oriented ontology perspective1
Editor’s foreword1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study1
Future by design1
A critique of the representationalist framing of design1
Measuring global design capabilities: An empirical model1
The located making framework for supporting craft maker enterprises in China1
Design logics after late capitalism1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design1
Practicing creative mapping as a method of abstraction in the first-year architectural design studio1
Mind maps in design education: Enhancing cognitive and strategic thinking – A case study review from Al-Ahliyya Amman University1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach1
Designing a participatory-based permaculture toolkit for marginal Indian farmers to support sustainable farming1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling1
Speculative and circular design applied to oceanic health and wellbeing – Envisioning possible futures with OZEAON project1
From monitoring to proactive healthcare: Cases exploring embodiment and AI in smart textile design1
Futures literacy in design education: A thematic analysis of BA/MA programmes in the Nordic countries1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China1
Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)1
Exploring the hybrid image–text model in reconstructing idea-generation training methods of design education1
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse1
The role of design in society1
(Un)Frayling design research in design education for the 21Cth1
Design thinking adoption in software development organizations: A SAP LAP analysis1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1
Unfinished feminist futures: Designer’s fiction, theorist’s interpretation, and educator’s reflection1
Sustainable wearable symbionts1
Mapping pedagogical orientations in architectural design education: A comparative thematic analysis of schools from Europe and Turkey1
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture1
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making1
Pockets full of wellness: E-textiles pockets to empower young women to discreetly recognise and manage their stress and mental wellbeing1
Creating New Jewellery with precious metals recovered from electronic waste1
Haptic perception interaction effects between vibrotactile and compressive stimuli in wearable devices1
Co-design in the context of universal design: An Australian case study exploring the role of people with disabilities in the design of public buildings1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse1
Can we build trust by service design? A theoretical approach on multidisciplinary integration1
Investigation of brainwave activity associated with curved and edged design geometries using 3D CAD models1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling1
Safe Harbours for Design Research1
Call for participation1
The future of product design research units and manufacturing SMEs: Addressing sustainability challenges through innovation-driven research1
Emergent methodology: Bridging the ocean tangibility gap with experimental design methods1
Design with change1
A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study1
Unlocking AI-driven innovations in textile design for a circular economy1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion1
Development of therapeutic garments for atopic dermatitis: Integrating functional textiles and clothing design1
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity1
How to define sustainable design? An exploration through bibliometric analysis and literature review based on Web of Science1
Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration1
Towards socially and ecologically responsive picture book design and development1
How family affects dynamic innovation capabilities in a design-intensive industry1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research1
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design1
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