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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep26
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution17
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments16
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures14
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for12
Communication for comprehension11
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions11
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design10
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring9
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia8
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage8
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design8
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research8
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity7
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications7
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach7
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki7
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design6
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making6
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?6
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design6
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD5
Transdisciplinary learning in a design collaboration5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience5
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design5
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture5
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption5
Everyday design-driven innovation: Exploring meaning change in IKEA hacking5
The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches5
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation5
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation5
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints4
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.4
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour4
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions4
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia4
Affordances of construction toys4
Call for Editorial Board members4
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions3
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio3
Design is…3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities3
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture3
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor3
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology3
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements3
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines2
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design2
How we learn2
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials2
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles2
What we do, how we do it and where2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation2
Learning to understand2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency2
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design2
AI for Designers2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters2
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
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design2
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies2
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design2
Legibility research of highway signage typefaces: A critical review and a potential design-centred approach1
Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology1
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration1
Emerging interdisciplinary approaches: Integrated biofeedback/IVR methodologies for arousal measurement in biophilic interiors1
Geomart-ut7, Selçuk Artut, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice1
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning1
Design thinking adoption in software development organizations: A SAP LAP analysis1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life1
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling1
Development of therapeutic garments for atopic dermatitis: Integrating functional textiles and clothing design1
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China1
Customization of e-textile sensory tools for people with dementia1
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact1
Design principles for mixed reality retail product configuration interfaces1
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice1
Prismatic reflection: Educational understanding of crisis-ready speculative augmentation design1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Design with change1
The role of design in society1
Safe Harbours for Design Research1
The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults1
From monitoring to proactive healthcare: Cases exploring embodiment and AI in smart textile design1
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset1
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
All things bio : A conceptual domain-based approach to mapping practice within the landscape of biologically informed disciplines1
Smarter Repair 20531
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making1
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
Practicing creative mapping as a method of abstraction in the first-year architectural design studio1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling1
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems1
Exploring the hybrid image–text model in reconstructing idea-generation training methods of design education1
Incorporating Designers’ Ideas in Developing a Collaborative Prototype for Supporting Age-Friendly Kitchen Co-Design in Chinese Gated Communities1
(Un)Frayling design research in design education for the 21Cth1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design1
Teatime: Exploring ways to support diverse narratives on sustainability through design1
Call for participation1
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
Leading by design1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach1
Haptic perception interaction effects between vibrotactile and compressive stimuli in wearable devices1
Design as the ‘Bridge’1
Engaging with research during design practice: A mismatch of activities and attitudes1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity1
Design logics after late capitalism1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China1
Novice designers in museums: A constructively aligned framework bridging formal and informal learning through artefact analysis1
Sustainable wearable symbionts1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Assessing the impact of maker services in Barcelona and Milan towards the 15-minute city model through their accessibility1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study1
Translational design prototypes for interdisciplinary public transport research1
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis1
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
Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration1
Designing a participatory-based permaculture toolkit for marginal Indian farmers to support sustainable farming1
A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice1
Structuring service design methods: The MO Mapping Framework1
How to define sustainable design? An exploration through bibliometric analysis and literature review based on Web of Science1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
Research on systems for doctoral education in design1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs1
Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games1
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice1
Is Democracy Designed?1
Future by design1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era1
Cognitive mapping: Enhancing discussions in the transdisciplinary design and health research space?1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)1
An east wind is blowing1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry1
Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking1
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