Design Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Design Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page74
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process70
Editorial Board55
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game54
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page50
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Conceptualizing place attachment affordance: Exploring an affordance-based approach to place attachment44
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model42
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada41
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page34
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Mapping affordance dimensions: A design model for enhancing visually impaired persons’ agency in food-mediated recycling21
There is no such thing as strategic design20
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design20
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts19
Refining adaptive design approaches for color vision deficiency: A systematic review and taxonomy (2000–2025)19
Design Martinis and Design Machetes: The Unspoken Paradox18
Editorial Board18
Inspiration for styling tasks17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page16
The role of expertise in design facilitation practice: A systematic review14
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research12
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research12
Editorial Board12
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Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend11
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures11
Heritage Spark: A card-based toolkit for navigating challenges of digitising intangible cultural heritage10
Experimental study on improving the quality of interdisciplinary design: Collaborate with AI psychology experts for design develop process10
Boundary spanners in co-design networks: Modulating tension and structuring informal power10
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility10
Uncovering latent needs in longevity planning: A case study using mixed-methods and system modelling9
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework9
Editorial: Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?8
Book Review: Designing and Democracy8
Effects of designer involvement in the new product development process: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing companies8
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes8
Editorial Board8
Enhancing patient healthcare experience: A systematic review of emotional design in medical devices8
Sensing place-based ecological knowledge for regenerative development and design8
Transition design: Co-creating system solutions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care7
From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change6
Designing urban wayfinding systems with a dynamic perspective: A card-based approach6
From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices6
Quality and qualities of design studies, design research and design5
Decolonizing creative education in the global south5
Affordance-based design evaluation: Bridging architectural intention and adaptive user behavior5
Interpreting entrepreneurial core values through visual aesthetics: An analysis of posters for online crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter5
Capturing and revisiting ideas in the design process: A longitudinal technology probe study5
Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach5
A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices5
Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process4
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning4
Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality4
An experiential learning approach to basic design studio4
That was fun, now what?: Modelizing knowledge dynamics to explain co-design's shortcomings4
Exploring game design approaches through conversations with designers4
Editorial Board4
Screens: Devices of screen ecosystems and designers’ perspectives3
Functional activity and connectivity during ideation in professional product design engineers3
Sketching and context: Exploring creativity in idea generation groups3
Unraveling the nature of design thinking disposition: Contributions of trait cognitive flexibility and trait empathy on design thinking potential3
Transition co-design dynamics in high level policy processes3
Rendering racism: Visualizing colorblind architecture3
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability3
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Timely and timeless framing of the new MINI Cooper2
Design as a tool for experiential food education: Research into practice through a proximity-based therapeutic garden2
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind2
Framing under power asymmetries: A cross-level examination of the early-stage product design process2
Transforming mature design management to better firm performance: The importance of top management involvement2
Beyond boundaries: Charting the future of Design Studies2
Understanding the interaction between human and LLMs-based AI in creative tasks: Insights from UX professionals’ collaboration and communication with ChatGPT2
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