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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	74
Co-designing a solution against late-life loneliness with older adults through journalistic research in a newspaper	52
Design thinking: What just happened?	38
Formulating design research questions: A framework	33
Participation in design research	32
Framing under power asymmetries: A cross-level examination of the early-stage product design process	31
Tactile co-design tools for complex interdisciplinary problem exploration in healthcare settings	30
Timely and timeless framing of the new MINI Cooper	25
Book Review: Designing and Democracy	23
Design anthropological approaches in collaborative museum curation	23
Function and forethought in design	22
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	21
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	20
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	19
From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change	18
Constructing accounts of decision-making in sustainable design: A discursive psychology analysis	18
A programming grammar for robotic fabrication: Incorporating material agency into clay textures	17
Objectivation in design team conversation	16
Editorial: Design Research Notes	16
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	16
Co-producing, curating and reconfiguring dwelling patterns: A design anthropological approach for sustainable dwelling futures in residential suburbs	16
Editorial Board	15
The design entrepreneur: How adaptive cognition and formal design training create entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention	15
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy	15
Transforming mature design management to better firm performance: The importance of top management involvement	15

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in design studies: Methodological considerations, challenges, and recommendations	14
Conceptualization and operationalization of empathy in design research	14
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	13
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design	12
From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices	12
Editorial: Design Anthropology	12
Beyond boundaries: Charting the future of Design Studies	12
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	11
Quality and qualities of design studies, design research and design	11
Editorial Board	10
Uncertainty and disciplinary difference: Mapping attitudes towards uncertainty across discipline boundaries	10
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	10
Editorial Board	9
Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice	9
AI as a co-creator and a design material: Transforming the design process	9
Situated emotion and its constructive role in collaborative design: A mixed-method study of experienced designers	8
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	8
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	8
Negotiating social value, time perspective, and development space in sustainable product design: A dialectics perspective	8
Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach	8
Languaging design methods	8
Creativity or creativities? Why context matters	7
Typologization of exclusionary design: An exploration of design interventions excluding unhoused people from urban public spaces	7
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	7
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	7
Method content theory: Towards a new understanding of methods in design	6
Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’: A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge	6
Expansive learning for collaborative design	6
Quality in research through design projects: Recommendations for evaluation and enhancement	6
Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution	6
A model of the adaptive reuse process of heritage buildings: Validation on four cases in the Netherlands	5
Ethnography and exhibition design: Insights from the Moesgaard inaugural	5
Capturing and revisiting ideas in the design process: A longitudinal technology probe study	5
Innovating product design through university-industry collaboration: Codesigning a bushfire rated skylight	5
Beyond safety: A design examination of facial PPE in paediatric wards	5
Mixed reality in design prototyping: A systematic review	5
A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices	4
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	4
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	4
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	4
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	4
Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process	4
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	4
Book Review	4
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice	3
The relationship between divergent thinking and ideation in the conceptual design process	3
A new model of participatory design to improve social impact: Incorporating action research into the design of appropriate technology in rural Zambia	3
Editorial Board	3
Planning design value-driven scenarios for innovation: A case study of adaptive reuse for food production based on the design management model	3