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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep	26
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution	17
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments	16
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures	14
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for	12
Communication for comprehension	11
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions	11
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design	10
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring	9
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage	8
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design	8
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research	8
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia	8
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach	7
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki	7
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity	7
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications	7
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making	6
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?	6
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design	6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design	6
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience	5
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design	5
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture	5
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption	5

Everyday design-driven innovation: Exploring meaning change in IKEA hacking	5
The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches	5
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation	5
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation	5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere	5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD	5
Transdisciplinary learning in a design collaboration	5
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour	4
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions	4
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies	4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda	4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia	4
Affordances of construction toys	4
Call for Editorial Board members	4
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century	4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there	4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints	4
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.	4
Design is…	3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China	3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China	3
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities	3
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities	3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design	3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions	3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection	3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture	3
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor	3
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology	3
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements	3
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity	3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting	3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions	3
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles	3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio	3
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?	2
How we learn	2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products	2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials	2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation	2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact	2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture	2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design	2
AI for Designers	2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters	2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students	2
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design	2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice	2

Learning to understand	2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there	2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education	2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods	2
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development	2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change	2
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing	2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design	2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies	2
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria	2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design	2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue	2
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines	2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions	2
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design	2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design	2
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving	2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process	2
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration	2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons	2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design	2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles	2
What we do, how we do it and where	2