OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Journal 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Design Tool to Support Cognitive Action and Creativity: Educational Insights from Fashion Designers	15
Do User Experience (UX) Design Courses Meet Industry’s Needs? Analysing UX Degrees and Job Adverts	14
Designing for Positive Emotions: Issues and Emerging Research Directions	12
Digital Cultural Heritage Design Practice: A Conceptual Framework	12
Circular Fashion: The New Roles of Designers in Organizations Transitioning to a Circular Economy	11
Effects of different types of digital exhibits on children’s experiences in science museums	10
The COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Need for Open Design Not Just Open Hardware	10
What Is Psychosocially Inclusive Design? A Definition with Constructs	7
Does Design Thinking Benefit Ambidextrous Dynamics between SME Managers’ Entrepreneurial and Administrative Mindsets?	7
Design Thinking in the Framework of Visual Thinking and Characterization of Service Design Ideation Methods Using Visual Reasoning Model	7
An Entrepreneurial Process to Build a Sustainable Business for Indigenous Craft Revitalization	6
Transfer of Craft Knowledge to New Product Development through Collaboration between Craftsmen and Designers	6
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice	6
The Value of a Co-Design Visualization Approach: Enhancing the Understanding of Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	6
Participatory design in sensitive contexts: A proposal for a conceptual framework	5
Healthy aging adviser: Designing a service to support the life transitions and autonomy of older adults	5
User-Centred Design without Involving Users: A Longitudinal Case Study in a Human-Centred-Design–Mature Company	5
Social Media as a Means of Increasing Non-Designers’ Insight into Interior Design	5
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments	5
Deep Diving into Service Design Problems: Visualizing the Iceberg Model of Design Problems through a Literature Review on the Relation and Role of Service Design with Wicked Problems	5
A Discussion of Processes to Create a Curriculum and Handbook for Co-Creation and Active Implementation of Co-Design with the Aim of Stimulating Collective Creativity	5
The holistic frame of designing smart, connected products: A systematic literature review and expert interview	4
The Impact of Co-Creation on the Design of Circular Product-Service Systems: Learnings from a Case Study with Washing Machines	4
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design	4
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions	4

An application of generative AI for knitted textile design in fashion	4
The potential of design-driven futuring to support strategising for sustainable futures	4
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	4
Design in the public sector: Nurturing reflexivity and learning	4
Collaborative Cultures of Architecture Teams: Team Learning and Reflective Practice	4
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research	4
The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach	3
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset	3
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development	3
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for	3
(Un)Frayling design research in design education for the 21Cth	3
Meanings and Uses of Design for Innovation: Conversations with UK Companies	3
Development of a Design Strategy for Playful Products of Older Adults	3
Theory-Driven or Theory-Informed? A Review of Behavioural Economics in Design	3
Advancing Asset-Based Practice: Engagement, Ownership, and Outcomes in Participatory Design	3
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria	3
Addressing Infection Risk in Veterinary Practice through the Innovative Application of Interactive 3D Animation Methods	3
Mobilizing Materials Knowledge: exploring the Role of Samples for Supporting Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design for Materials Development	3
Identifying the role of technology within the discipline of 21st century landscape architecture	3
Exploring Product/Part Longevity in Open Design of Small Kitchen Appliances	3
Prototyping-Driven Entrepreneurship: Towards a Prototyping Support Tool Based on Design Thinking Principles	3
Iterative Prototypes as ‘Boundary Objects’: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration of a Modular Hearing Aid	3
Fashion Design Rediscovered: A Theory on Dressmaking Practice	2
Co-design in the context of universal design: An Australian case study exploring the role of people with disabilities in the design of public buildings	2
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration	2
The Emotive and Semantic Content of Pattern: An Introductory Analysis	2
Talking about landscape spaces. Towards a spatial-visual landscape design vocabulary	2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods	2
The located making framework for supporting craft maker enterprises in China	2
Inclusive design within industry 4.0: A literature review with an exploration of the concept of complexity	2
Using Generative AI Midjourney to enhance divergent and convergent thinking in an architect’s creative design process	2
Movement-Based Interactive Textiles Design for Emotion Regulation	2
Barriers to Bringing Design Function into Technology Start-Ups: A Survey on the Incubation Programme of Hong Kong Science Park	2
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving	2
All things bio : A conceptual domain-based approach to mapping practice within the landscape of biologically informed disciplines	2
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China	2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice	2
Prototyping an IoT transparency toolkit to support communication, governance and policy in the smart city	2
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology	2
A Framework for Transitioning Designerly Ways: Interrogating 50 Years of Inclusive Design for Paediatric Mobility	2
Mind the Systemic Gap(s): Service Ecosystems for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs in the East Zone of São Paulo, Brazil	2
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture	2
Can I design for play? How pedagogues design for children’s play situations in school	2
Exploring Animation and Virtual Reality to Represent the Perceptual-Experiences of Art-Practitioners with Sight-Loss	2
A Visual Tool for Understanding Wicked Problems in Design Research: A Case Study of Marginalized Youth Unemployment	2
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki	2
Design for the Sustainment of Traditional Making Practices: A Research Study in Central China	2
The Value of Design-driven Entrepreneurship	2
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration	2
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities	2