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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	90
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	69
Editorial: Design Research Notes	50
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	45
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	44
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	36
Editorial Board	33
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	33
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	29
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	28
Editorial Board	28
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	27
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	26
Editorial: Sticky notes in design: Properties in practice	25
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	22
Acknowledgement of Referees	22
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	22
There is no such thing as strategic design	22
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	21
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	20
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	18
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	18
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16

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

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