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Papers

(The median citation count of Design Studies is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	78
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	60
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	42
Editorial: Design Research Notes	42
Editorial Board	34
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	34
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	31
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	27
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	27
Editorial Board	26
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	25
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	24
Acknowledgement of Referees	23
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	22
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	21
There is no such thing as strategic design	20
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	19
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	18
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	17
Editorial Board	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	16

Inspiration for styling tasks	16
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	15
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	15
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	14
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	14
Book Review	14
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	14
Languaging design methods	14
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	13
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	12
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	11
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	11
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	11
Editorial: Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?	10
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	10
Kinds of ‘moving’ in designing with sticky notes	10
From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change	9
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in design studies: Methodological considerations, challenges, and recommendations	9
Book Review: Designing and Democracy	9
From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices	9
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	8
Transition design: Co-creating system solutions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care	8
Negotiating social value, time perspective, and development space in sustainable product design: A dialectics perspective	8
Quality and qualities of design studies, design research and design	8
Editorial: Design Anthropology	8
Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach	7
The relationship between divergent thinking and ideation in the conceptual design process	6
Decolonizing creative education in the global south	6
Capturing and revisiting ideas in the design process: A longitudinal technology probe study	6
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	6
Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process	6
That was fun, now what?: Modelizing knowledge dynamics to explain co-design's shortcomings	6
A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices	6
Method content theory: Towards a new understanding of methods in design	6
Exploring game design approaches through conversations with designers	6
Functional activity and connectivity during ideation in professional product design engineers	5
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning	5
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	5
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability	5
Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality	5
Sketching and context: Exploring creativity in idea generation groups	4
Transition co-design dynamics in high level policy processes	4
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind	4
Book Review	4
Objectivation in design team conversation	4
Rendering racism: Visualizing colorblind architecture	4
Beyond boundaries: Charting the future of Design Studies	3
Transforming mature design management to better firm performance: The importance of top management involvement	3