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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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sampling in design research: Eight key considerations	52
Where next for design research? Understanding research impact and theory building	34
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	31
A cautionary tale about the impact of AI on human design teams	31
The life cycle of creative ideas: Towards a dual-process theory of ideation	30
Staging negotiation spaces: A co-design framework	26
Design anthropology for emerging technologies: Trust and sharing in autonomous driving futures	21
Method content theory: Towards a new understanding of methods in design	21
Design performance and designer preference in an interactive, data-driven conceptual building design scenario	21
Quality in research through design projects: Recommendations for evaluation and enhancement	20
Conceptualization and operationalization of empathy in design research	20
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in design studies: Methodological considerations, challenges, and recommendations	19
Prototyping strategies for stakeholder engagement during front-end design: Design practitioners’ approaches in the medical device industry	19
Investigating users’ reactions to surprising products	18
Languaging design methods	17
Crafters, explorers, innovators, and co-creators: Narratives in designers’ identity work	17
Cognitive strategies in solution mapping: How engineering designers identify problems for technological solutions	17
Understanding representation: Contrasting gesture and sketching in design through dual-process theory	16
Decoding the agility of artificial intelligence-assisted human design teams	16
Parametric modeling tools in small architectural offices: Towards an adapted design process model	16
The impact of confirmation bias on reasoning and visual attention during analysis in engineering design: An eye tracking study	15
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling	15
Editorial: Design Research Notes	14
Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?	13
Characterization of concept generation for engineering design through temporal brain network analysis	13

Developing critical documentation practices for design researchers	13
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning	13
Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice	13
Read the full patent or just the claims? Mitigating design fixation and design distraction when reviewing patent documents	12
Participation in design research	12
The design risks framework: Understanding metacognition for iteration	12
Problem framing and cognitive style: Impacts on design ideation perceptions	12
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	12
Situated emotion and its constructive role in collaborative design: A mixed-method study of experienced designers	11
Formulating design research questions: A framework	11
Design and responsible research innovation in the additive manufacturing industry	11
Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation	10
The relationship between divergent thinking and ideation in the conceptual design process	10
Prototyping to elicit user requirements for product development: Using head-mounted augmented reality when designing interactive devices	10
Exploring tutor-student interactions in a novel virtual design studio	9
Articulating care and responsibility in design: A study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators' ‘care-making’ practices	9
Analysing frequent natural language expressions from design conversations	9
Tactile co-design tools for complex interdisciplinary problem exploration in healthcare settings	9
Decolonising design in peacebuilding contexts	9
Creativity or creativities? Why context matters	8
Work with the beat: How dynamic patterns in team processes affect shared understanding	8
Design thinking: What just happened?	8
Sticky notes as a kind of design material: How sticky notes support design cognition and design collaboration	8
The design entrepreneur: How adaptive cognition and formal design training create entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention	8
Innovating product design through university-industry collaboration: Codesigning a bushfire rated skylight	7
Co-producing, curating and reconfiguring dwelling patterns: A design anthropological approach for sustainable dwelling futures in residential suburbs	7
How to do things with notes: The embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes	7
Historicising design space: Uses of the past in participatory prefiguring of spatial development	7
The story novice designers tell: How rhetorical structures and prototyping shape communication with external audiences	7
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	7
The relevance of virtual reality to communication design	6
Making grammars for material and tectonic complexity: An example of a thin-tile vault	6
Design science and neuroscience: A systematic review of the emergent field of Design Neurocognition	6
Increasing team ideation by sequencing the task type and content	6
Editorial: Design Anthropology	6
Sketching and context: Exploring creativity in idea generation groups	6
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	6
Design anthropological approaches in collaborative museum curation	6
End user engagement in refugee shelter design: Contextualising participatory process	5
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	5
Design games as fieldwork: Re-visiting design games from a design anthropological perspective	5
What can we share? A design game for developing the shared spaces in housing	5
Processing the method: Linking Deweyan logic and design-in-research	5
Materials and tools as catalysts of invention in graphic design ideation	5
Opening the black box: Developing metrics to assess the cognitive processes of prototyping	5
Using decisive constraints to create design methods that guide ethical impact	4
Understanding inspiration: Insights into how designers discover inspirational stimuli using an AI-enabled platform	4
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind	4
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	4
Kinds of ‘moving’ in designing with sticky notes	3

Towards an integrative approach to researching design expertise	3
Expansive learning for collaborative design	3
Contexts of briefing for service design procurements in the Finnish public sector	3
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability	3
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	3
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	3
Uncertainty and disciplinary difference: Mapping attitudes towards uncertainty across discipline boundaries	3
Human-level design proposals by an artificial agent in multiple scenarios	3
Interweaving vulnerability and everyday design: Encounters around an aquarium in a paediatric oncology ward	3
A descriptive phenomenological approach to perception of affective quality in design inspiration	3
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	3